2024 Medicines from the Earth: Exhibitor Information

Symposium Information

Location: YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly
84 Blue Ridge Circle, Black Mountain, North Carolina

Lodging and Meals: All-inclusive lodging and meal packages start at $182 total for two nights’ lodging and six meals. Commuter meals are also available for $101 for the weekend for those staying off-site.

Register for lodging and meals online. Blue Ridge does not take reservations by phone. You may also fill out this form and mail or email it to them.

Arrival: When arriving please come to the lobby of Blue Ridge Center at Blue Ridge Assembly. Setup begins at noon on Friday, May 17. More details below.

Exhibitor Details

1. Please keep us informed if the names of your reps change. Extra reps (more than two) at the booth pay a special registration fee of $249.

2. Each exhibitor is supplied with an 8′ rectangular table and chairs in the lobby of Blue Ridge Center at Blue Ridge Assembly. Bring your own table coverings or draping.

3. Setup in the exhibit area is 12PM-8PM on Friday, May 17, and 7AM-10AM on Saturday, May 18. The exhibit area is open during symposium registration, breaks and meals. Attendee registration begins at 5PM on Friday and will take place in the exhibit hall area. There will be a reception with music and snacks at 6:30PM, so it’s a good idea to be set up by then. The full conference schedule is now available here. The last exhibitor break ends at 3:30PM on Sunday, May 19.

4. Tables are staffed during breaks and meals. You may want to bring an extra cloth to cover your exhibit when you aren’t there.

5. If you would like to ship materials to the symposium, they should arrive no earlier than Wednesday, May 15. Your packages will be brought to your table for you. Address your shipped materials to:

Your Company Name
HERB Symposium
Blue Ridge Assembly
84 Blue Ridge Circle
Black Mountain, NC 28711

6. The symposium is not responsible for lost or stolen articles and cannot ship goods back to exhibitors. All shipping after the event is the exhibitor’s responsibility.

We thank you for your support of the annual Medicines from the Earth Herb Symposium and look forward to seeing you there! Please email the Conference Manager at caitlin@botanicalmedicine.org if you have any questions.

Additional Symposium Events

Optional Events: To add an event to your exhibitor/sponsor registration, please email the Conference Manager at caitlin@botanicalmedicine.org

Friday, May 17: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Ethnobotanical and Native Plant Field Study ($79)
David Winston, RH (AHG)
Limit: 35 people (Sorry, this event is full!)

This field study has become a treasured annual institution at Medicines from the Earth. Join this perennial outdoor favorite for a day with David Winston examining the unique flora of the southeastern mountains and hearing stories of creation and the origin of medicine. Discover how the medicine, food and useful materials provided by the plants have nurtured the Native peoples and Appalachian settlers for millennia. Explore the healing power of the herbs, the water, the earth, the trees, and how you can make them a part of your life. This event fills every year, so please register early! Limit 35 participants.

CE NOTE: Application submitted to NCCAOM for 5 hours of continuing education credit for acupuncturists. Sorry, but OBNM and AAFP do not grant CME credits for herb walks and field studies.

Friday, May 17: 1:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Pre-symposium Intensive: Optimizing Physical Performance and Recovery with Botanicals ($89)
Donald Yance, CN, RH (AHG)

This intensive gives us wide ranging insights into the specific herbs, botanical formulas and nutritional compounds that can:

1. Enhance and sustain energy and endurance, reduce fatigue and maximize energy transfer.
2. Manage anabolic states to gain lean muscle mass and reduce body fat.
3. Shorten recovery and reduce the buildup of toxic waste substances, inflammation, and
the oxidative stress that can result from intense training,
4. Balance endocrine hormones while aiding in the removal of negative hormones and hormone-metabolites such as estrogen and excess insulin.
5. Improve overall health and well being, giving support to the heart, liver, kidneys, immune and digestive systems. (Athletes often have poor immune systems and reduced levels of glutathione, the body’s most important antioxidant)
6. Aid in stress resistance and build stress defense. Stress is a major contributor to diminished performance and injury.
7. Reduce risk of injury, muscle fatigue and cramping.
8. Maintain high performance with age.

Sunday, May 19: Online
Online Intensive: Natural Treatment of Prostate Conditions: Blending Western Herbal Practice, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Pharmacy
Eric Yarnell, ND, RH (AHG)
Prostate problems are extremely common and highly amenable to natural prevention and treatment.

• Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is experienced by the majority of men to varying degrees. We discuss how to assess the severity and type of BPH, choosing the most appropriate therapeutics, including when it is necessary to use drugs or refer for surgery (including what types of surgery are best).
• Chronic prostatitis and pelvic pain are also extremely common, but little discussed. We review various theories of how these conditions arise, and especially debunk the widespread belief that infections always underlie this condition.
• We will then review prostate cancer. We start with a condition that doesn’t really have a name but is currently mislabeled as low-grade, localized prostate cancer. This unnamed condition especially will be addressed with an eye toward avoiding the vast overtreatment that currently occurs in conventional medicine. Next we delve into established prostate cancer and the power of a combination of natural and conventional therapies, including the many new conventional options for focal (vs. prostate- or even pelvis-wide) treatment.
• Finally we discuss issues around the prostate in trans feminine people who still have prostates.
• Case studies are used as illustrations throughout.

Continuing Education Information

• Please sign up for CE when you submit your registration form ($29 additional fee for all CE).
• We offer CE, CME, CNE, PDA and CEUs through these approvals
• Credits issued for full or partial attendance
• Totals below will include attendance at intensives (pre and post)

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS:

• Application submitted and pending approval: Up to 39.5 CME hours of which 10 can be pharmacy (OBNM)
• Application submitted and pending approval to AAFP for up to 29 Prescribed Credits*

NURSING PROFESSIONALS, MEDICAL DOCTORS, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS, ETC.:

• Application submitted and pending approval to AAFP for up to 29 Prescribed Credits* for DO, MD, RN, FNP, California NDs and others
  

*AMA/AAFP Equivalency:
AAFP Prescribed Credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.

ACUPUNCTURISTS:

• Application submitted and pending approval: Up to 22.5 PDA for live attendance including David Winston’s field study and live airing of Eric Yarnell’s post-symposium online intensive (NCCAOM)

A general certificate of attendance is available to any participant who requests it.