Online Symposium Option

Can't join us in Granby for the Symposium? No worries! Our Online Symposium options feature a select group of eight classes you can join live or as recordings accessible for one year.

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In addition to the eight Symposium classes (see below), Your First Year of Clinical Practice and Preserving the Herbal Legacy of Cannabis, two Pre-Symposium Intensives on Friday, October 13, and Low Dose Botanicals: Three Clinical Approaches, the Post-Symposium Intensive on Monday, October 16, are available live-streamed or as recordings. Note that Pre- and Post-Symposium Intensives require an additional registration fee.

Register before October 14, 2023, to attend livestreamed classes during the Symposium and receive access to recordings, or register after this date to access Online Symposium recordings for one year.

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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS 

Heritage Medicine: Prickly Pear, Sunflowers, Cacao and Hibiscus

Mimi showcases traditional kitchen herbs from her Latin American heritage, including Prickly Pears, Sunflowers, Cacao, and Hibiscus. This materia medica presentation illustrates their rich diversity and medicinal properties through anecdotes and enticing recipes. Mimi introduces you to the fascinating world of ethnobotany integral to Latin American kitchens, with valuable insights into the clinical applications of these common ingredients. 

Post-Symposium Intensive: Low Dose Botanicals: Three Clinical Approaches

This six-hour intensive features the experiences of three herbalists that regularly use low-dose botanicals in their clinical practices. The focus is on providing guidelines for the safe clinical use of plant-based preparations with a reputation for causing cumulative damage, requiring specific dilution, or have been misused.

Pre-Symposium Intensive: Preserving the Herbal Legacy of Cannabis Culture

This class will help dispel decades of propaganda and misinformation that has resulted from the prohibition and criminalization of highly useful cannabis. Misconceptions surrounding cannabis mean the spread of falsehoods that arose from the demonization of a plant and do a disservice to both the plant and our communities. It is the duty of those who work with cannabis as medicine to counter the falsities that prohibition started and that ad agencies perpetuate.
 

Poke, Mistletoe, and More! Southern Appalachian Ways

Lucretia discusses folk uses for low-dose herbs with true Southern roots. Learn about the ole-time poke preparations like “poke sallet” and other traditional poke uses. What is it? Is it safe to eat it? How do Southern folk herbalists work with mistletoe? Listen to the enchanting herbalist tales of Appalachian folklore and their beloved plants.

Business Protections for Your Herbal Legacy

This session reviews various approaches to protecting and preserving your lifetime's work. In continuing the preservation of your herbal legacy and contribution to the community, there are several measures that can be adopted to ensure that recognition and accessibility to information is maintained. Christina will review such protections including business and organization formation, trademarks, copywriting, and succession planning. 

Pre-Symposium Intensive: Your First Year of Clinical Practice

In this discussion session, we’ll focus on setting realistic expectations for your first year of clinical practice, as well as strategies for supporting yourself, your clients, and your practice during this phase. The vulnerability, excitement, and anticipation many practitioners experience during this time will be acknowledged and honored. We will explore logistical questions, emotional and spiritual challenges that often arise, and tips/tools for navigating the transition to clinical work.

Low-Dose Antineoplastic Herbs

Taxus brevifolia, Catharanthus roseus, Dicentra formosa, Asclepias spp., Larrea tridentata, Podophyllum peltatum, and Trichosanthes kirilowii and other low-dose anticancer herbs will be discussed. Besides a presentation of what is known about the chemistry, molecular actions, synergy, efficacy, and safety of these herbs from the literature, Eric will present on his 26 years of clinical experience using these herbs, primarily in patients with urological, renal, and gastrointestinal cancers.

Microdosing: An Update on the Clinical Possibilities

Could microdosing be the ultimate low-dose clinical therapy? Clinicians across the globe are opening to the possibilities microdosing may have in the realm of neurological health, creativity, mood, pain, addiction, and more. In this exploratory presentation, we will discuss how sub-intoxicating doses of psilocybin, combined with other allies, can influence neurite outgrowth, nerve regeneration, and re-myelination of nerves.

Clinical Trials Using Full- Spectrum Herbal Formulas

This presentation will dive into the design and findings of clinical trials sponsored by Gaia Herbs that have recently been conducted using full- spectrum herbal formulas. This research is exciting as the majority of published herbal research is focused on single ingredients or purified extracts. Learn about the process of designing a clinical trial for complex herbal products and be introduced to real life examples of full- spectrum herbal extract research.

Baneful Balms: Topical Low-Dose Herbs in Clinical Practice

This presentation will address the topical application of low-dose herbal preparations in clinical practice. Botanicals discussed will include Aconitum napellus, Corydalis yanhusuo, Atropa belladonna, Hyoscyamus niger, Datura stramonium, Veratrum viride, and Arnica montana, among others. Chemistry, actions, traditional use, dosage, application forms, and case examples will be reviewed.

Phytolacca Revisited: From Root to Berry

Pokeweed is a low-dose plant with great potential for use in contemporary clinical herbalism. While most familiar as a lymphagogue, this herb has a diverse set of actions and energetics depending on parts used and how they are prepared. Using Appalachian and Eclectic traditions along with phytochemistry, we'll explore the energetics, actions, constituents, toxicology, and beneficial potential of the root (in various forms), the potent berries, and the edible shoots as cooked "sallet."

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