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.
I got a great e-mail the other day from someone who was asking me how to have a deeper connection with herbal medicines… but from
I talk a lot about the importance of energetics and constitutions in clinical herbalism. This is one of the attributes of traditional systems of medicine across the world that are at their root and are fundamental to their way of understanding the uniqueness of a person and the specific properties of medicinal plants.
In part 1 of this 2 part lecture, I discuss some of the primary correspondences between the 4 Elements of Nature and the human body.
Sometimes when I walk through the grocery store, I’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, don’t think through how to put an herbal formula together.
One of the most important perspectives-that is, ways of seeing the world- for the true holistic herbalist, is to have an understanding of the vital
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 there’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,
Running a private practice can be difficult, especially when you’ve never learned the logistics of how to do so in school. Although you can learn
“Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, un-choreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have
An effective herbal formula does not happen on its own. While you can combine a bunch of herbs and hope they work together, the results
When our minds aren’t clear it’s hard to accomplish anything- we scatter into the winds or sink down into the low energetic state of brain
Welcome to Part 2 of the Allergy Strategy. In this post, we’ll explore the two key approaches to working with allergies and intolerances: prevention and
Let’s face it, we all could probably be doing more to tend to our health. But sometimes self care can seem like another thing added
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