Herbal Legacy within the Western Medical Model

The siloing of care between what is considered "traditional" and "complementary" often creates an access barrier to the legacy toolbox of carefully curated plant preparations that has been developed by our ancestors over millennia. Despite this perceived barrier, data as recent as 2022 supports the finding that up to 45% of physicians recommend complementary and alternative medicine to their patients. Join Dr. Kourtney Sims for an insightful conversation about how to build an integrative care team within your local community, how destigmatizing both herbalism and the western biomedical model works to the benefit of client and patient, which allopathic specialities are most and least likely to use herbalism, and what payment and visit models best facilitate the connection between patients, clients, physicians, and herbalists.