The Ubiquitous Oat (What's oats got to do with it?) with Heather Irvine | 155

Today’s episode is with herbalist Heather Irvine. Listen in as she goes in depth on the nutritive, ubiquitous oat.

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About Heather

A former foraging frolicker, who aims at answering some of often asked but tougher questions in herbalism, such as, how herbs work and what are the real versus theoretical safety issues.  Heather was not long ago collecting and growing hundreds of medicinal plant species for her small herbal product line: Giving Tree Botanicals.  www.GivingTreeBotanicals.com.  Now in the heart of Boston, she is offering herbal health consultations, classes and informal one on one herbal mentorship for interested persons who have immersed themselves in one or more aspects of herbalism or related topics and want to continue with guidance, regular one on one instruction and encouragement, with the possibility of attending occasional community-building events with other students. Fits your schedule and starts where you are!  

She also teaches Actions and Chemistry for the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, www.VTHerbCenter.org and teaches two for-credit herbal courses, for Johnson State College/Northern Vermont University. She gets a great thrill out of presenting at and simply attending herbal events, from Herbstalk, a bustling educational and community gathering in the Boston area to the annual American Herbalists Guild Symposium and anything in between. She has also begun offering seminars for health professionals, the first of which is called "Supplement Straight Talk" about practical aspects of popular herbs & supplements, and talking to patients about herbs. 

Botanical Functional Medicine with Sam Coffman and Kyla Helm | 154

In this podcast episode Sam Coffman RH (AHG) and Kyla Helm, MD. discuss the integration of Functional Medicine and Clinical Herbalism. They talk about systems biology, learning through case studies, and how the two worlds of functional medicine and botanical medicine overlap. You’ll also hear about their course - Botanical Functional Medicine.

Learn more about The Human Path: https://thehumanpath.net/

Check out the Botanical Functional Medicine Course: https://herbalmedics.academy/course/botanical-functional-medicine/

Sam Coffman has worked with herbs since 1987 and formally as a clinical herbalist for over 15 years. He served in the military for 10 years of which 6 were as a US Special Forces Medic (aka Green Beret Medic). He is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, a Wilderness EMT (WEMT), and a Wilderness First Responder instructor.

Sam is the founder of The Human Path/Herbal Medics Academy and co-founder of Herbal Medics which is the school’s outreach organization that works with underserved communities.

His primary goal has become the creation of an integrative medical model that embraces both vitalistic and mechanistic aspects of herbalism into a collaboration with orthodox and energetic models of diagnosis and treatment, to include orthodox western medicine. To this end, he has created and co-created nearly 2000 hours of pathophysiology-based herbal medicine curriculum, and led hundreds of herbal clinics in remote, austere, post-disaster and underserved areas. Also as part of integrating orthodox medicine with plant medicine, Sam regularly works as an herbalist with, teaches with and instructs doctors, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, nurses, and other licensed health care practitioners.

Kyla Helm, M.D. received her Medical Doctorate from the Academy of South Dakota School of Medicine in 1993 and is triple Board Certified in Family Medicine, Pain Medicine and Anti-Aging, Functional and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Helm completed a Family Practice Residency at Ft. Benning, GA in 1999 and served in the US Army until 2001.

Given her passion to find and treat the root cause of illnesses, Dr. Helm obtained training in integrative and complementary interventions to augment her traditional medical education. She used these techniques to manage complex medical conditions such as chronic pain and fibromyalgia, and obtained her Board Certification in Pain Medicine in 2004.

Dr. Helm became Board Certified in Functional and Restorative Medicine in 2011 and completed her Advanced Fellowship in Restorative Medicine the same year. Dr. Helm uses an integrative functional medicine approach to provide comprehensive, individualized healthcare to her patients. She has provided these services to adults and children with great success.

Dr. Helm has traveled extensively with her husband who is a career US Army officer. She and her family recently moved from the Texas Hill Country to South Dakota.

Herbs and Reclamation: a Dream Practice with Blanca S. Villalobos | 153

In this episode you'll hear from cultural worker Blanca S. Villalobos on the importance of reclaiming the dream realm and supportive plant allies. 

Blanca identifies as a queer proud daughter of immigrants with roots in the Sierra Madre Occidental of México. Her work as an interdisciplinary artist braids themes such as identity, folklore and healing modalities. As an artist, she has been awarded residencies with Caldera Arts, Signal Fire, The Living School of Art and Residency in the Garden. Her integration of community organizing & art making has been supported through grants and fellowships by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Calligram Foundation and Epicenter. While living on Multnomah territory Blanca taught bilingual anti-oppression curriculum to Latinx youth and their families in order to prevent gender-based violence, organized transit justice efforts with an environmental organization and founded a queer Latinx collective dedicated to community healing through arts and activism. She has been facilitating dream classes and workshops to all ages in homes, art galleries, community centers and conferences since 2016 and couldn't be happier. She has been an avid dreamer since she can remember and was called to share this work now as an adult. 

After an almost 8 year cycle in the Pacific Northwest, Blanca returned to Southern California in early 2018 to give back to the land and people that raised her. She is now based in the high desert of Morongo Valley, CA on the traditional lands of the Serrano people. She is an artist, educator & cultural worker. In addition, Blanca volunteers as a backcountry guide for Signal Fire and is a recent council member for the Joshua Tree National Park Association. In her free time she enjoys making ceviche for loved ones and hiking with her pup. You can learn more about her community work & practice at www.blancasvillalobos.com and IG at @blanca.s.villalobos

Food as Medicine - Herb-Infused Bone Broth with Jade Alicandro Mace | 152

In this episode of the HerbRally Podcast, you’ll hear from herbalist Jade Alicandro Mace of Milk and Honey Herbs. She talks about the huge benefit to adding herbs to your bone broth, why you’d want certain herbs in your broth, and more!

Jade Alicandro Mace weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. When she’s not teaching bioregional herbalism to students and apprentices, you can find her roaming the hedges with her harvest basket in-hand or at home in the kitchen brewing-up some potent food as medicine. She’s a mother to her 10 and 6 year-old daughters, partner, tender of chickens and cats and puppy, online educator, blogger and writer, and half-gardener to her mostly wild gardens. From 2012-2019 she ran the Greenfield Community Herbal Clinic, a clinic dedicated to affordable herbal care, and currently maintains a long-distance and local clinical practice. Through her Patreon community she offers monthly online classes and plant study groups, and she teaches an online kitchen herbalism course each winter as well. She makes her home in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts, in unceded Nipmuk territory.

Learn more about her work at www.milkandhoneyherbs.com or find her on facebook or instagram at @milkandhoneyherbs. You can find her on Patreon too!

Spice Rack Medicine Online- Enrollment OPEN January 8th-January 22nd! Course begins February 1st.

REPLAY | Rosemary Gladstar and Helen Ward on The Science & Art of Herbalism

The Science & Art of Herbalism course with Rosemary Gladstar is on sale this week so we thought we’d run a replay of this awesome episode with Rosemary and Helen! Enjoy.

Rosemary Gladstar shares her insights with Helen Ward, Educational Director, from Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center about how she started working with the plants and what inspired her to write The Science & Art of Herbalism Online and Home Study Course.

Charlotte Herbal Accessibility Project and Community Herbalism with Brandon Ruiz | 151

In this episode of the HerbRally Podcast you’ll hear from community herbalist and urban farmer Brandon Ruiz. He tells us all about his work with the Charlotte Herbal Accessibility Project that he created in 2018. This project aims to educate communities in Charlotte, NC about the benefits, practical uses, and history of herbal medicine. Enjoy!

Learn more about the project: www.cltherbalaccessibilityproject.org/

Brandon will be teaching at the 2020 Breitenbush Herbal Conference in Detroit, Oregon! Registration opens soon, so stay tuned: https://www.herbalconference.net/

Brandon Ruiz is a Holistic Herbalist, Permaculture Designer and Plant-Based Nutritionist who lives in Charlotte, NC. He specializes in studying and working with plant medicines from his native Puerto Rico and surrounding islands, and the Appalachian region; this Appalachia + Island fusion is showcased through his company, Atabey Choreto Medicinals. He also is the Director and Founder of the Charlotte Herbal Accessibility Project, a project in Charlotte that aims to provide equal and affordable access to herbal medicine in its entirety, from seed to tincture.

How Herbal Medicine Can Cultivate Community Resilience with Selena Rowan | 150

In this episode Selena Rowan shares a speech she gave to the 2nd Annual Mendocino County Herb Guild Harvest Dinner. In this talk she intimately describes how the practice of herbal medicine can guide rural communities on a collaborative path toward cultivating community resilience, especially in the face of natural disasters such as the massive and destructive fires that have repeatedly swept Mendocino County in recent years.  This speech supported fundraising for the creation of a mobile apothecary, which will help the guild achieve their goal of increasing access to herbal medicine in the county.

Learn more about the Mendocino County Herb Guild at www.mendocinoherbguild.com and on their facebook page.

More information about Selena’s work can be found at www.ninesistersbotanicals.com or by following her on facebook or @ninewyrdsisters on Instagram.

Introductory poem and excerpt from Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown – learn more at www.adriennemareebrown.net.

Beautiful background music is “Lunassa” by Aislinn.

News, Thyme, and Chronic Non-Bacterial Prostatitis | 149

This podcast is the 4th of weekly podcasts recorded by herbalist Todd Caldecott. In this episode he talks about herbal and health news, thyme, and chronic Non-Bacterial Prostatitis.

View the video version of this podcast here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6348445/video/368832284

Todd Caldecott is a medical herbalist and practitioner of Ayurveda, in practice since 1995. He is the Executive Director of the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine, and author/editor of three books including Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life, Food as Medicine, and Ayurveda In Nepal.

Mint Family: Digestion to Cognition. Rosemary to Oregano and Thyme | 148

This talk was presented at the Medicines from the Earth Herb Symposium in June of 2018. Mary Bove emphasizes the many uses of the mint family in increasing cognition and mental alertness, aiding sleep, quelling anxiety, managing thyroid conditions and much more. She talks about her favorite recipes and the modern research that reinforces centuries-old traditional uses. Medicinal applications of rosemary, lemon balm, spearmint, holy basil, lavender, oregano and thyme from Mary's own clinical experience are all included.

Mary Bove will again be speaking at Medicines from the Earth May 29 - June 1, 2020 in Black Mountain, North Carolina. See the program here. 

Other recordings of Mary are available on the website: www.botanical-medicine.org/

A clinical medical herbalist, Mary Bove had a practice in family medicine in Brattleboro, Vermont for over 20 years where she assisted in the birth of a whole generation of kids. Listening to Mary talk on botanical medicine is like sitting down with a good friend over a cup of herbal tea. She is the author of An Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children and Infants, and co-author of Herbs for Women's Health. Since starting her herbal journey at age 18, Mary has held firm to three tenets: “Walk your talk, believe in the plants and practice herbalism every day in your life.”

News, Henbane, Cold and Flu Season with Todd Caldecott | 147

This podcast is the 3rd of weekly podcasts recorded by herbalist Todd Caldecott. In this episode he talks about herbal and health news, Henbane, and Cold/Flu Season.

View the video version of this podcast here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6348445/video/367272781

Todd Caldecott is a medical herbalist and practitioner of Ayurveda, in practice since 1995. He is the Executive Director of the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine, and author/editor of three books including Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life, Food as Medicine, and Ayurveda In Nepal.

News, Ayurveda, Echinacea, and Parkinson's Disease with Todd Caldecott | 146

This podcast is the 2nd of weekly podcasts recorded by herbalist Todd Caldecott. In this episode he talks about herbal and health news, Ayurveda in Nepal, Echinacea, and Parkinson’s Disease.

View the video version of this podcast here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6348445/video/365656270

Todd Caldecott is a medical herbalist and practitioner of Ayurveda, in practice since 1995. He is the Executive Director of the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine, and author/editor of three books including Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life, Food as Medicine, and Ayurveda In Nepal.

Fire Cider: A Traditional Herbal Remedy with Nicole Telkes | 145

In this episode you’ll hear herbalist Nicole Telkes talk at the 2019 Free Herbalism Project in Eugene, OR in October.

Commonly used during the winter months, fire cider is a beloved traditional herbal remedy that has become the center of a legal controversy. Learn the recipe with common variations, and hear how you can make your very own batch at home. Nicole also touches on protecting traditional herbal remedies and traditions (not trademarks) in the future.

Nicole’s webiste: http://nicoletelkes.com/

Fire Cider Recipe Book: https://amzn.to/33J7e0W

Nicole Telkes believes strongly in herbalism being “the people’s medicine” and enlists her students and any interested parties in fulfilling her goal of putting “an herbalist in every home.” As a deep ecologist, she focuses on “weedcrafting” bioregional native and naturalized plants in herb practice. She has a great passion for the green path and education.

Nicole has taught classes and presented at conferences and symposiums including The Native Plant Society of Texas Symposium; The American Herbalist Guild National Symposium; Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference, International Herb Symposium; and the Moonflower Herbfest.

She has provided clinic support for WTO Seattle, Common Ground Health Clinic, and Sundance Free Clinic in northern Arizona. She has also been published in Earth First! Journal, Plant Healer, and the American Herbalists Guild newsletter. In 2016, she founded a chapter of Herbalists Without Borders. She was a founding member of the Traditions Not Trademark Campaign to free Fire Cider. Nicole is the author of the book the Medicinal Plants of Texas.

Culture is Medicine with Dr. Gary Ferguson | 144

We have the pleasure of sharing this awesome talk recorded at the 2019 Traditional Roots Herbal Conference. Dr. Gary Ferguson wrapped up the event with a stirring talk about the tangible ways that culture supports healing. Enjoy!

Gary Ferguson ND is a licensed naturopathic doctor living in Anchorage, Alaska and a 2001 graduate of NUNM. Dr. Ferguson has worked across Alaska to address the social, economic, cultural and environmental factors that contribute to the health and well-being of Alaskans. He is a facilitator, motivational speaker, health coach and technical consultant to communities around how to more deeply address contributing factors to health and well-being. He is Aleut/Unangan, originally from the Shumagin Islands community of Sand Point, Alaska. Dr. Ferguson’s past positions include providing clinical services to his home region at Eastern Aleutian Tribes, serving at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium as Senior Director of Community Health Services, and CEO at the Rural Alaska Community Action Program. 

Ferguson has had the honor of working alongside tribal doctors in Alaska and has a passion for culturally connected approaches to health that include indigenous ways of healing. He is the co-producer of the award-winning Store Outside Your Door/Alaskan Plants as Food & Medicine initiative.

Rosemary Monograph by Dana Aronson | 143

In today's episode you'll hear from herbalist Dana Aronson as she shares her Rosemary (Rosemarinus officinale) Monograph. 

“Rosemary is the smell of déjà vu and the after-breath of nostalgia. Her gift is the faint scent that teases and vanishes, leaving you longing for something you can’t quite name, and with memories that crest and crash, pulling you gasping into their undertow” -Maia Toll 

Check out Dana’s Rosemary Monograph here.

For more information about Dana Aronson: https://www.wildkinbotanicals.com/ 

Photo Credit: Dana Aronson

Class | Sage Country Herbs Foundational Nutrition

Understanding Nutrition is difficult and we are flooded with contradiction in marketing. Nutrition is not about buying products. You can spend a lot of money on nutrient-dense products and not be absorbing those nutrients.

Foundational Nutrition is understanding how your body works with the macro and micronutrients needed for you to thrive. Shana Grover has been teaching nutrition for over 15 years and has received great feedback on how basic changes in perspective and understanding can create long term change in the quality of life. Join Sage Country Herbs for this fascinating and entertaining class!

Learn more about the class here: https://www.sagecountryherbs.com/events/event/foundational-nutrition/

Life, Herbal News, Nettles, and GERD with Todd Caldecott | 142

This podcast is the first of weekly podcasts being recorded by herbalist Todd Caldecott. In this episode he talks about life updates, herbal and health news, nettles, and GERD (acid reflux).

View the video version of this podcast here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6348445

Todd Caldecott is a medical herbalist and practitioner of Ayurveda, in practice since 1995. He is the Executive Director of the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine, and author/editor of three books including Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life, Food as Medicine, and Ayurveda In Nepal.

Herbal Stress Support - Self Care and Chill with Jessica LaBrie | 141

In these busy, complex times, stress is inevitable. Lucky for us, the natural world is filled with herbal allies and age-old remedies just waiting to help you relax, restore, and revitalize!

In this podcast, herbalist and wise woman Jessica LaBrie will talk all about ways to use herbs for stress support and self care. This recording is of a workshop she taught on herbal stress relief at the Portsmouth Public Library in New Hampshire, and she welcomed us to share the recording with our HerbRally listeners. Enjoy!

Jessica LaBrie is an integrative herbalist, educator and Wise Woman, supporting her community to bring modern lives back into balance: emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Her apothecary, gardens, and woodland trails are a place of healing, prayer, and joyful reconnection with the harmony and abundance of Nature. She is the owner of Blackbird’s Daughter Botanicals and co-owner of Mama’s Kiss Cannabis.

Learn more about her:

www.blackbirdsdaughter.com

Hops Monograph with Rosalee de la Forêt | 140

Listen in as herbalist and author Rosalee de la Forêt talks all about the hops (Humulus lupulus)!

Before trendy bars started highlighting their hoppy brews, the hop plant was used as a traditional herbal medicine. With their aromatic and pungent scent, hops strobiles have been prized for their ability to help people relax. This use dates back thousands of years, at least since the ninth century.

Check out Rosalee’s monograph HERE.

Rosalee de la Forêt, RH, is passionate about helping people discover the world of herbalism and natural health. She is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and the Education Director at LearningHerbs. She is also the author of the online courses, The Taste of Herbs and Herbal Cold Care. She is the creator of the Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel. When she is not immersed in herbs, you can find her taking photos of nature, kayaking with her husband, or curled up in a hammock with a good book.

FREEBIE | Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel

Have you ever stared at a list of herbs, wondering which was the right one to use? Or wished you could choose herbal remedies with confidence? In today’s episode we wanted to give you a brief intro to this awesome free tool… the Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel!

Rosalee and John from LearningHerbs are currently offering the their Flavor Wheel Download plus 3 educational videos for FREE! This nifty tool makes it easy to figure out which herb is best for your needs.

Get yours before the offer ends: http://bit.ly/HRFlavorWheel

Plant Chemistry, Cannabis, Medicine, and the Human Body with Lisa Ganora & Sam Coffman | 139

In today’s podcast, you’ll listen in on Lisa Ganora (Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism) and Sam Coffman (The Human Path & Herbal Medics Academy) discussing plant chemistry, cannabis, vitalism, reductionism, medicine making, pathophysiology and herbalism. Enjoy!