Clinical Herbalism and Therapeutics

From therapeutic principles of holistic herbalism and how to address specific conditions, to tips and tricks for assessment, formulation, and other nuggets of clinical gold, these posts are all about supporting your work with people.

Herbal Alchemy: The Water Element

Learn how to use the Elements as a lens for classifying and using herbal remedies. The Alchemical herbal perspective involves looking at the planetary rulerships of different herbs, their organ and tissue affinities, as well as providing a sophisticated and refined way of preparing herbal medicines according to astrological influences. In this video, I reveal how the common herb Cleavers (Gallium aparine) relates to the water element, as well as Venus and the lymphatic system.

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Herbs for the Emotional Heart

Often when we consider herbs that work on the heart, we think of high blood pressure, predispositions for heart disease, and things like that. But thereโ€™s another level of working with the heart for herbalists who want to use plants not just for helping the body but helping the whole person,

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Allergies and Asthma

In this weekโ€™s post, I wanted to share with you some of the overarching categories of herbal actions and energetics and properties that are used to treat upper respiratory allergies and asthma.

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The One Herb Formula

Sometimes when I walk through the grocery store, Iโ€™ll pick up a bottle off of the many shelves of herbal supplements and check out what their formulas look like. I like to see how people think through, or in many cases, donโ€™t think through how to put an herbal formula together.

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