Herbal Antibiotics and Gut Flora
This week, we have a very interesting question that comes up from time to time in regard to whether an herb can actually work like an antibiotic and the possible benefits and risks in terms of using herbs to treat pathogenic infections. Antiviral and Antibacterial Herbs in the Time of COVID-19 This is a pretty…
Constitution Confusion
I wanted to share a great question I got from one of my students recently, it’s actually one that I get asked all the time, so I thought I’d share this segment from my Student Q&A video with the greater Evolutionary Herbalism community. This question is a major point of confusion for a lot of…
Herbs for the Emotional Heart
During this week’s evolutionary herbalism student Q&A session we had a great question about two remedies for addressing the heart in ways that we don’t tend to think of when we’re treating the heart from a clinical herbalism perspective. Often when we consider herbs that work on the heart, we think of high blood pressure,…
Developing Relationships with Botanical Beings: interview with Asia Suler
Having a connection to the herbal allies you work with is essential to truly accessing the deepest levels of healing offered by plant medicines. But how do you develop a relationship with these botanical beings? In this episode of The Plant Path podcast, Asia Suler shares a guide for connecting to the primordial language of…
Medical Astrology in Practice, an interview with Kira Sutherland
In this special episode of The Plant Path, I interviewed naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist, and medical astrologer Kira Sutherland. Kira’s been a clinical practitioner for over 20 years and the use of her client’s birth chart has been one of her primary tools for holistic assessment and providing insights into how to best navigate her cases. …
Becoming a Self Sufficient Herbalist
A few months ago it really hit me that as herbalists we need to really start thinking about our level of self-sufficiency. Why? Well when Coronavirus really hit hard and everyone was on lock down, we started to notice something very alarming… You couldn’t really buy herbs anywhere!! Some of the larger herb companies in…
COVID-19, Herbal Therapeutics for Viral Respiratory Infections
I’ve been getting a lot of emails and requests for me to share some of my thoughts and perspectives in regards to holistic herbal medicine and how you can support your family and community during this coronavirus outbreak. So, in this video class I’m going to share some of my approaches and how you might…
Holistic Herbal Therapeutics and Influenza
The other day I did one of our quarterly live Q&A sessions for all of the Evolutionary Herbalism students and someone asked a question about how we go about holistically treating influenza. It’s January of 2020, and as I’m sure you know, this tends to be the season where people are coming down with the…
The Plants of Yuletide: History & Lore of Evergreens
Throughout the world, there are so many wonderful traditions celebrated this time of year that involve plants, but especially evergreens! Do you ever wonder where these origins came from and think about why we do some of these things like bring a tree into our home to decorate it? Well this is something we were…
The Universal Digestive Formula
One of the most important skills for the modern clinical herbalist is having the ability to successfully treat the digestive system. This is one of the most critical organ systems to understand how to treat holistically from the vitalist perspective of herbalism. Traditions of herbalism understand the human organism and plants, not just through the…
