2023 Medicines from the Earth Attendee Page

Afternoon Pre-Symposium Intensive with Jillian Stansbury, ND

Title: Botanical Influences on Cell Membranes
Date: Friday, June 2, 2023
Time: 1 PM – 5:15 PM
Cost: $89
Location: UNC Asheville
Open only to registered symposium participants.
Continuing Education: Approved for 4 pharm hours for naturopathic physicians (pending approval OBNM); 4 PDA for acupuncturists (NCCAOM); approved for 4 nursing contact hours (AHNA)

Description: By understanding basic interactions on the level of the cell membranes, which are the mediators of all activity within the cell, we can become better at managing a host of conditions we see regularly as practitioners. This intensive investigates four of these interactions and the botanicals and pharmaceuticals acting on them: lipids/eicosanoids; glycoproteins/antivirals; ion channels/muscle relaxation and signal transduction/second messengers. Taken together, the parts of this intensive show us how using botanical medicine to affect cell membranes can improve the overall health of our patients. Full summary.

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Streaming Videos

Lise Alschuler, ND

1. Clinical Applications of Medicinal Mushrooms with Synergistic Botanicals
2. Distress, Anxiety and Depression: A Botanically-Based Approach
3. Panel: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Can it be Halted or Reversed?

Mark Blumenthal

1. 40 Years of HerbalGram: Working to Ensure Accurate Herb Information and Authentic and Sustainably-Sourced Herbs

Teresa Boardwine, RH (AHG)

1. Bitters as Therapeutic Tonics (Demonstration)
2. Creating an Herbal Day Spa at Home

Mary Bove, ND

1. Senescence, Senolytics, and Aging
2. Simplicity of Simples in Botanical Medicine
3. Panel: Self Care: One of the Most Challenging and Rewarding Aspects of Patient (and our own) Health

Chris Kilham, Medicine Hunter

1. Keynote Address: Plants, People and Places, A Web of Life
2. Peru’s Sacred Plant Boom and Sustainability

Kat Maier, RH (AHG)

1. We Are Stardust: Trace Elements as Foundational Building Blocks of Health
2. Panel: Self Care: One of the Most Challenging and Rewarding Aspects of Patient (and our own) Health

Jason Miller, DACM, LAc

1. Intensive: Management of Complex Chronic Disease: Combining TCM Concepts with Modern Biomedical Analysis (password to this video was emailed to intensive registrants on 7/6)
2. The TCM Essence / Modern Genetics Parallel: From Congenital to Post-Congenital / From Digital to Analog

Kenneth Proefrock, NMD

1. Tropane Alkaloids: From the History of Pharmacy to the Modern Practice of Botanical Medicine
2. Case Studies in the Naturopathic Treatment of Neurodegenerative Conditions
3. Panel: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Can it be Halted or Reversed?

Katie Stage, ND, RH (AHG), FABNG

1. How to Put the Brakes on the Runs: Approaches to Finding the Root Cause and Treatment of Persistent Diarrhea
2. Panel: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Can it be Halted or Reversed?

Jillian Stansbury, ND

1. Intensive: Botanical Influences on Cell Membranes (password to this video was emailed to intensive registrants on 7/6)
2. Mast Cells – Their Role in Health and Disease and Botanical Affectors
3. Thought Disorders – A Survey of the Safety of Botanical Medicines in Schizophrenia

Donald Yance, CN, RH (AHG)

1. Medicinal Mushrooms in Oncology: Everything You Need to Know About Mushrooms and Cancer
2. Aging and the Immune System: Using Botanical and Dietary Compounds for Immune Enhancement and Clearance of Senescent Cells to Combat Aging, Infection, and Chronic Disease
3. Panel: Self Care: One of the Most Challenging and Rewarding Aspects of Patient (and our own) Health

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Speakers and Topics

Lise Alschuler, ND
A naturopathic doctor with board certification in naturopathic oncology, Lise Alschuler has been practicing since 1994. She graduated from Brown University with an undergraduate degree in Medical Anthropology and received a doctoral degree in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University. Dr. Alschuler is past-President of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and a founding board member and current President of the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians. She is currently an independent consultant in the area of practitioner and consumer health education. More about Lise Alschuler.

1. Clinical Applications of Medicinal Mushrooms with Synergistic Botanicals
2. Distress, Anxiety and Depression: A Botanically-Based Approach
3. Saturday Panel: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Can it be Halted or Reversed?

Rebecca Beyer, MA
Rebecca Beyer is the woman behind the Blood and Spicebush School of Old Craft. She lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where she manages a homestead and teaches traditional witchcraft, foraging, and Appalachian folk medicine. She has a BS in Plant and Soil science from the University of Vermont and a Masters in Appalachian Studies and Sustainability, concentrating in Appalachian Ethnobotany at Appalachian State University. She is also a member of the Association of Foragers. She spends her days trying to learn what her ancestors did and finding ways to share traditional skills while tackling cultural appropriation and the complexities of living in the modern world. More about Rebecca Beyer.

1. Outdoor Walk: Appalachian Folk Uses of Local Plants

Mark Blumenthal
The founder and executive director of the American Botanical Council and the editor and publisher of HerbalGram (an international, peer-reviewed quarterly journal), Mark has written hundreds of articles and appears on national radio and TV. More about Mark Blumenthal.

1. 40 Years of HerbalGram: Working to Ensure Accurate Herb Information and Authentic and Sustainably-Sourced Herbs

Teresa Boardwine, RH (AHG)
Green Comfort School of Herbal Medicine in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, is where Teresa Boardwine offers classes, consultations, and online access to her workshops. She has been teaching her hands-on medicine-making classes for over 20 years. More about Teresa Boardwine.

1. Bitters as Therapeutic Tonics (Demonstration)
2. Creating an Herbal Day Spa at Home
3. Sunday Panel: Self Care: One of the Most Challenging and Rewarding Aspects of Patient (and our own) Health

Mary Bove, ND
A clinical medical herbalist, Mary Bove had a practice in family medicine in Brattleboro, Vermont for over 20 years. where she assisted at the birth of a whole generation of children. 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.” More about Mary Bove.

1. Senescence, Senolytics, and Aging
2. Simplicity of Simples in Botanical Medicine
3. Sunday Panel: Self Care: One of the Most Challenging and Rewarding Aspects of Patient (and our own) Health

Doug and Todd Elliott
For many years Doug Elliott earned his living as a traveling herbalist collecting and selling herbs, teas and old-time remedies. Along with healing plants, Doug searches out old-timers and elders from various cultures. From these bearers of tradition, he has assembled an extensive body of knowledge of the botanical aspects of plants, their history, legends, and lore, their uses in various cultures, medicinal properties, food value, as well as other practical ways we can use wild plants every day. More about Doug Elliott.

Not surprisingly, Doug’s son Todd Elliott has had a passion for the natural world since childhood, which led him to co-author his first peer-reviewed scientific publication by age 14. His ongoing studies of global biodiversity and interrelationships in nature have taken him to remote corners of the world on six continents. Todd has collaborated on many publications covering this research, and his book Mushrooms of the Southeast (USA) was released in 2018. He is currently a PhD candidate in Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England, focusing on the role of macrofungi in vertebrate diets. More about Todd Elliott

1. Two herb walks

Joe Hollis
Joe Hollis has lectured, consulted and taught workshops in medicinal herb identification, cultivation and processing at Mountain Gardens and at various colleges and conferences in North Carolina for over 30 years. Mountain Gardens sells its seeds, plants and preparations at herb fairs and medicinal herb conferences, and via the internet. More about Joe Hollis.

1. Friday, 1:00 – 5:00 PM: Ecology, Propagation and Cultivation of Native and Oriental Medicinal Herbs at Mountain Gardens ($69)

Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, educator and TV personality who promotes natural, plant-based medicines, sustainable botanical trade and indigenous cultures. He has conducted ethnobotanical plant research in 45 countries and lectures worldwide about holistic wellness and botanical medicines. Chris helps to develop and popularize traditional medicinal plants, including kava, maca, rhodiola, ashwagandha, ayahuasca, and hundreds of others.

Chris has been featured in The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Forbes, Psychology Today, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CNN, NBC Nightly News, The Dr. Oz Show, Fox News Health, ABC Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, and many other top-tier media venues. He has written 15 books, including The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook, The Five Tibetans, and his latest, The Lotus and the Bud: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Yoga Practice. The New York Times calls Chris “Part David Attenborough, part Indiana Jones.” More about Chris Kilham.

1. Keynote Address: Plants, People and Places, A Web of Life
2. Peru’s Sacred Plant Boom and Sustainability

Kat Maier, RH (AHG)
A practicing herbalist for over twenty years, Kat Maier is currently director of Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville, Virginia where she offers a three-year clinical/community herbalist training program. She began studying plants in the Peace Corps in Chile. More about Kat Maier.

1. We Are Stardust: Trace Elements as Foundational Building Blocks of Health
2. Plant Walk: Establishing Plant Relations
3. Sunday Panel: Self Care: One of the Most Challenging and Rewarding Aspects of Patient (and our own) Health

Jason Miller, DACM, LAc
Jason Miller, DACM, LAc, practices botanical and nutritional medicine, acupuncture, and Asian bodywork at his clinic, Jade Mountain Medicine, in Ashland, Oregon. He received his master’s degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in 2005 and completed a postgraduate internship at the “House of Celebrity Doctors” in Nanjing, China. He earned his Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2018. His approach bridges the frameworks of traditional and modern medicine in the management of chronic disease. At Jade Mountain, he specializes in the management of cancer, diabetes and neuromuscular disorders. More about Jason Miller.

1. Friday Morning Intensive: Management of Complex Chronic Disease: Combining TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) Concepts with Modern Biomedical Analysis ($89)
2. The TCM Essence / Modern Genetics Parallel: From Congenital to Post-Congenital / From Digital to Analog

Kenneth Proefrock, NMD
A naturopathic physician practicing in Sun City, Arizona, Kenneth Proefrock specializes in difficult-to-treat conditions in his clinic, Total Wellness. He is the Vice President of the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners and chair of the biochemistry portion of the naturopathic physician’s licensing exam. His lectures combine a detailed understanding of biochemistry and physiology with a passion for plant medicine. More about Kenneth Proefrock.

1. Tropane Alkaloids: From the History of Pharmacy to the Modern Practice of Botanical Medicine
2. Case Studies in the Naturopathic Treatment of Neurodegenerative Conditions
3. Saturday Panel: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Can it be Halted or Reversed?

Katie Stage, ND, RH (AHG), FABNG
Katie Stage, ND, RH (AHG), FABNG is a naturopathic physician and registered herbalist of the American Herbalists Guild. Her lectures are full of clinical information based on experience in her practice in family medicine at the SUHS Medical Center in Tempe, AZ, where she practices family medicine focusing on optimizing women’s/men’s health, gastrointestinal diseases, and mental health. Her lectures combine clinical information with a deep respect for indigenous healing and the ability to heal oneself through connection with nature and simple lifestyle practices. She is also a member of the Ric Scalzo Botanical Research Institute. More about Katie Stage.

1. How to Put the Brakes on the Runs: Approaches to Finding the Root Cause and Treatment of Persistent Diarrhea
2. Saturday Panel: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Can it be Halted or Reversed?

Jillian Stansbury, ND
Jillian Stansbury is a naturopathic physician who has been practicing in SW Washington State for over 30 years, specializing in women’s health, mental health, and chronic disease. She holds undergraduate degrees in Medical Illustration and Medical Assisting and graduated with honors in both programs. She was the chair of the botanical medicine department at the National University of Natural Medicine for over 20 years. Jill has recently published five herbal formularies for health professionals, comprehensive, practical reference manuals for herbalists, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals More about Jillian Stansbury.

1. Friday Afternoon Intensive: Botanical Influences on Cell Membranes ($89)
2. Mast Cells – Their Role in Health and Disease and Botanical Affectors
3. Thought Disorders – A Survey of the Safety of Botanical Medicines in Schizophrenia

Marc Williams, MA
Ethnobiologist Marc Williams has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of people about plants, humans, other life forms and their interface. His training includes a B.A. in Environmental Studies/Sustainable Agriculture from Warren Wilson College with a minor in Business and a M.A. in Appalachian Studies/Sustainable Development from Appalachian State University with a minor in Planning/Geography. He has spent over 20 years working at various restaurants, farms, and travels throughout 30 countries in Central/North/South America, Europe and all 50 states in the USA. More about Marc Williams.

1. Invasivorism – Making Tasty Food from some Challenging Weeds (Demonstration) — Please note this session will not be recorded
2. Outdoor Walk: Identifying and Using Appalachian Medicinal Plants

David Winston, RH (AHG)
David Winston is an Herbalist and Ethnobotanist with 54 years of training in Chinese, Western/Eclectic and Southeastern herbal traditions. He has been in clinical practice for 47 years and is an herbal consultant to physicians, herbalists and researchers throughout the USA, Europe and Canada. David is the founder/director of the Herbal Therapeutics Research Library and the dean of David Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies, a two-year training program in clinical herbal medicine. He is an internationally known lecturer and frequently teaches at medical schools, professional symposia and herb conferences. He is the president of Herbalist & Alchemist, Inc. a manufacturer that produces herbal products that blend the art and science of the world’s great herbal traditions. More about David Winston can be located at Herbal Studies.

1. Friday Field Study: Ethnobotanical and Native Plant Field Study ($79)
2. Bringing Down the Numbers – The Herbal/Nutritional Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia and Hypertension

Donald Yance, CN, RH (AHG)
Donnie Yance, RH (AHG) is a clinical master herbalist and certified nutritionist who is internationally recognized for his comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the healing properties of plants and nutrition. Donnie conducts his clinical practice at the Mederi Center in Ashland, Oregon, utilizing his unique integrative model known as the Eclectic Triphasic Medical System, which he evolved over more than twenty years of successful patient care. More about Donald Yance.

1. Medicinal Mushrooms in Oncology: Everything You Need to Know About Mushrooms and Cancer
2. Aging and the Immune System: Using Botanical and Dietary Compounds for Immune Enhancement and Clearance of Senescent Cells to Combat Aging, Infection, and Chronic Disease
3. Sunday Panel: Self Care: One of the Most Challenging and Rewarding Aspects of Patient (and our own) Health

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Continuing Education Approvals and Forms

Cancellations: By May 11, registration fees will be refunded minus $50 processing per registrant. No refunds can be given after 5/11/23. Refund requests should be emailed to the conference office.