A free online herbal medicine course for physicians, health care practitioners and others from around the world who want to learn practical ways of solving complex health problems using natural methods. Designed by Registered Herbalist and licensed Eastern Medicine Practitioner Alan Tillotson in Delaware, author of The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook.
A free online herbal medicine course for physicians, health care practitioners and others from around the world who want to learn practical ways of solving complex health problems using natural methods. Designed by Registered Herbalist and licensed Eastern Medicine Practitioner Alan Tillotson in Delaware, author of The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook …
This section answers many of the most basic of questions, starting with “What is an herb?” Answer: Webster’s Dictionary defines an herb as “any seed plant whose stem withers away to the ground after each season’s growth.” It further defines an herb as “any such plant used in medicine.” However, …
I can say that there are infinite good ways to prepare and manufacture herbs, infinite bad ways, and infinite ways in between. How can you know you are getting good quality herbs? …
Information on herbs is now voluminous. Some days I get ten e-mails trying to sell me herbal products, a phone call or two from salespersons, and a few pounds of catalogs. Unless your are cross- trained in science, traditional medicine, and advertising psychology, it is very difficult to clearly judge …
Reports in the media have spread the idea that the herbal medicine industry is completely unregulated. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates it very closely. The FDA reviews an herbal product’s labels, manufacturing standards, and contents. It collects reports of adverse effects, issues warnings, and pulls products …
Guidelines for the Safe Use of Herbs …
Each of the major traditions uses key concepts and words to describe how herbs work on the body. I am going to introduce some of these terms in this section …
The next thing you want to know is what the “best” herbs are for treating your particular health condition. . . When you watch doctors from each of these systems at work, as I have, you notice very quickly that they choose certain “great” herbs most frequently, based on their …
The key thing Nai-shing and I do every day is to formulate treatment protocols specific to the individual needs of the patients we see. In this section I want to show you how we go about putting our knowledge to use in the clinic. I want you to understand how …