HerbMentor Radio

Demetria Clark: Herbal Healing for Children

herbmentor — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:32:09 +0000

Demetria Clark has written one of the best books on using herbs with kids we’ve seen: Herbal Healing for Children: A Parent’s Guide to Treatments for Common Childhood Illnesses. Demetria is a North American herbalist specializing in herbals for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, nursing and children. She is the Founder and Director of Heart of Herbs Herbal school and the doula training program, Birth Arts International. In this interview, Demetria discusses her top 10 choices her an herbal apothecary for kids.

Paul Bergner, Your Calling and a Unique Herbal Opportunity

herbmentor — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:48:33 +0000

Paul Bergner and Tania Neubauer, N.D. join me at the Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference for a special live edition of HerbMentor Radio.

Paul has been practicing natural medicine since 1973, is author of 7 books, and is founder of the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism.

Dr. Neubauer is a naturopathic physician, was a medical coordinator at the Berkeley Free Clinic, has worked extensively with Natural Doctors International, and has studied with Karen Sanders, Michael Moore and Adam Seller.

A “calling,” according to Paul, is something that “when you’re doing it, the universe conspires to make you succeed.”

Paul and Tania, along with herbal 7Song (Northeast School of Botanical Medicine), are leading a delegation to the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. This trip is open to anyone, no matter what your herbal or language background. It is an amazing opportunity for those who want herbal clinical experience.

Whether an herbal experience in Nicaragua is your calling or not, you will gain mainly amazing insights from this interview.

Wildcrafting with Skeeter: Michael Pilarski Interview

herbmentor — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:12:34 +0000

Michael Pilarski is a farmer, educator and author who has devoted his life to studying and teaching how people can live sustainably on this Earth. He has extensive experience in organic farming, seed collecting, wildcrafting medicinal herbs, plant propagation, horticulture, teaching, and international networking.

He founded Friends of the Trees Society in 1978 and has authored many books on forestry, agriculture, agroforestry and ethnobotany. Michael has been involved in the permaculture movement since 1981 as a writer, teacher and networker.

Herbs for Back Pain, with jim mcdonald

herbmentor — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:52:28 +0000

jim mcdonald is an herbalist based in Michigan. He teaches many classes locally, and also teaches at major conferences such as the Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference and Rootstalk. In this podcast, Jim covers nutrition and body work as well as the major catagories of how to look at and treat back injuries, such as muscle pain, spasm, inflammatory pain, and nerve pain.

Isla Burgess Interview

herbmentor — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:00:09 +0000

Isla Burgess, DipPE DipTchg DipHerbMed MNZAMH MNHAA, has been an educator for the past 40 years, currently the Director of the International College of Herbal Medicine, was the founding Director of the Waikato Center for Herbal Medicine in New Zealand and is a convener for the International Research Group for the Conservation of Medicinal Plants. She developed a practical, innovative course drawing on 25 years practice and investigation in the field of medicinal plants and their therapeutic uses. She has presented papers at conferences and seminars both nationally and internationally and is the author of Weeds Heal: A Working Herbal.

Phyllis Light: Southern Appalachian Folk Medicine

herbmentor — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:30:42 +0000

Phyllis Light is a fourth generation herbalist and healer. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild, director of herbal studies at Clayton College, and is working on a new book The Geography of Health: Southern Appalachian Folk Medicine.

Cascade Anderson Geller Interview

herbmentor — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:14:36 +0000

Cascade Anderson Geller was a founding member of the Everett House Healing Center in 1979 in Portland, Oregon, and has served on the faculty of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Bastyr College, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and the California School of Herbal Studies. She has been trained by the late Ella Birzneck, Norma Myers and Juliette di Bairacli Levy. She teaches the Grounds-Well Herbs Healing Power of Plants course in Portland, Oregon where she lives with her family. This interview covers Cascade’s origins as an herbalist and answers HerbMentor member questions.

Timothy Scott interview

herbmentor — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:21:16 +0000

Timothy Lee Scott is an acupuncturist and herbalist with a master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine. He studied extensively with Stephen Buhner, who wrote the forward to his book, Invasive Plant Medicine, which demonstrates the ecological benefits and healing abilities of invasive plants. Working with Buhner led him to work in the area of Lyme’s disease treatments, and Tim later formed Green Dragon Botanicals to provide remedies to the greater Lyme’s community.

In this interview we discuss invasive plants, Lyme’s disease, japanese knotweed and a few other herbs.

Charles Garcia: Curandero and Guerilla Herbalist

herbmentor — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:03:26 +0000

Charles Garcia is a third generation curandero and practicing herbalist. He is founder and director of the California School of Traditional Hispanic Herbalism. Charles has worked in law enforcement, special education, lectured at many schools, and was a contributing author to the book, Wilderness Emergency Care.

K.P. Khalsa: Food as Medicine

herbmentor — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:03:25 +0000

K.P. Khalsa believes in food as medicine. He is one of the foremost herbal experts in the field today. He is a senior editor for The Harvard University Natural Standard and a professor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Bastyr University’s College of Naturopathic Medicine. His most recent book is The Way of Ayurvedic Herbs. K.P. is Senior Research Scientist for the Yogi Tea company.

Dr. Peter Gail: King of Dandelions and Wizard of Wild Weeds

herbmentor — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:04:37 +0000

Dr. Peter Gail has been eating and teaching wild weeds for over 50 years. He brough DandyBlend, his amazing dandelion coffee to the U.S., has written a book on dandelion uses and dandelion recipes. USA Today called him the King of Dandelions. Good Morning America, the Wizard of Weeds. Many call him Dr. Dandelion.

Heidi Bohan: Northwest Ethnobotanist

herbmentor — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:19:02 +0000

Ethnobotanist Heidi Bohan has over 18 years experience working as an educator of native plants, horticulture, woodworking, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge of the Pacific Northwest. Her new book is The People of Cascadia: Pacific Northwest Native American History. We discuss many ways to use plants in your life.

Herb Energetics: The Sensory Language of Life, with Kiva Rose

herbmentor — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:41:04 +0000

http://www.herbenergetics.com/ This is the first module of our upcoming course, Herb Energetics, a webinar series with Kiva Rose. Visit our site to watch a video lesson of this podcast. We’ll get back to our usual HerbMentor Radio format next time around. http://www.herbenergetics.com/

Raylene Ha`alelea Kawaiae`a: The medicine of the Islands

herbmentor — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:40:39 +0000

Raylene Ha`alelea Kawaiae`a is a long time teacher of Hawaiian way of life, has been a kumu (teacher) hula for over 30 years. She teaches hula and Hawaiian culture as a way of life to people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds. Her lineage has brought her an understanding of the traditions of her heritage.

Doug Elliot: Herbs, Songs and Stories

herbmentor — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:17:19 +0000

Discover herbs though the songs and stories of Doug Elliot. We talk herbal mentoring in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina plants, mushrooms and more. Doug is author of Wildwoods Wisdom: Encounters with the Natural World, Woodslore: Stories, Lore, and Truth Stranger Than Fiction About the Natural World, Wild Roots: a Forager’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Roots, Tubers, Corms and Rhizomes, and most recently, Swarm Tree: of Honeybees, Honeymoons and the Tree of Life.

Ryan Drum: Sea vegetables and their uses

herbmentor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:54:43 +0000

Dr. Ryan Drum visits from his remote island in the Northwest to discuss sea vegetables kelp uses, and sea weed recipes. Medicinal uses of sea weeds such as kelp and thyroid issues, as kelp is a thyroid remedy. Discover the health giving properties of this bounty of the sea.

Christopher Hobbs: Botany and Herbs

herbmentor — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:35:57 +0000

Christopher Hobbs is author of Peterson’s Field Guide to Medicinal Plants of the Western U.S, Women’s Herbs, Women’s Health, Herbal Remedies for Dummies and many other books. We discuss his upbringing, answer herbal questions and discuss learning botany.

Herbal Energetics and Fevers, with Jim McDonald

herbmentor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:10:51 +0000

Jim McDonald returns to HerbMentor Radio to discuss herbal energetics and how to treat fevers naturally as well as home remedies for fever. Covers fever remedies for adults and a great children fever remedy. Jim also clearly covers diaphoretics, what they are, and when to use what type.

Paul Bergner, Vitalism and the Heart of Herbal Medicine

herbmentor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:50:49 +0000

Paul Bergner is the director of the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, editor of the Medical Herbalism Journal, creator of MedHerb.com author of many herbal books including The Healing Power of Minerals, Special Nutrients and Trace Elements, The Healing Power of Echinacea and Goldenseal, The Healing Power of Ginseng and the Tonic Herbs, and The Healing Power of Garlic. He teaching herbal vitalism and in this podcast Paul lays a wonderful foundation for learning about herbs as he gets to the heart of herbal medicine…nature.

Swine Flu: Understanding H1N1 and our Herbal Remedies from Nature

herbmentor — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:37:26 +0000

Heather Nic an Fhleisdeir returns to HerbMentor Radio for a Special Report on the h1n1 virus, herbal remedies and natural care. Heather covers swine flu prevention, natural remedies for h1n1 such as elderberry, and the herbal misinformation being spread.