Northeast School of Botanical Medicine

The below handouts are divided into 3 sections. The first section is related to the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine and includes the application and syllabus. The next group is a wide variety of handouts, useful for incoming students and anyone interested in herbal medicine. The final section is dedicated to related links. Feel free to download any and all. Some of these handouts are occasionally revised. If you have already downloaded them, you may want to check to see if you have the most current copy. I hope you find this useful.

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Northeast School of Botanical Medicine Blogs

• Crafting Herbal Formulas for Individual Constitutions with 7Song
• The Eupatorium Story; Joe Pye Weed, Boneset and White Snakeroot-Part One
• The Eupatorium Story-Joe Pye Weed, Boneset and White Snakeroot, Part two
• Blue Vervain-Verbena Hastata
• The Skullcaps-A Scutellaria Monograph
• Pedicularis (Lousewort) Monograph-Pedicularis as a Skeletal Muscle Relaxant
• Avena-A Monograph on Oats as Medicine
• Plant Field Guides Review-Washington and the Pacific Northwest
• Quick comments on the GMPs (Good Manufacturing Processes)
• Baptisia tinctoria
• An Herbalist’s View. Patient Study-Looking to reduce symptoms in progressive disorders.
• The Kidneys-A Brief Evolutionary Story
• Plant Medicine Notes-Chaparral (Larrea Tridentata)
• A Jamaican Dogwood Story
• First Aid for the Practicing Herbalist-Finger Wound
• Herbal First Aid Bag
• Preparing fresh Kava kava root tincture
• My Experience at Burning Man 2016 or I went to Burning Man so you don’t have to go
• Ideas for an Herbal First Aid kit for the Washington DC March
• Wresting Burdock Seed and its Medicinal Uses
• Anemone Species-Medicinal Uses, Botany, and More
• Lessons Learned Working at the Ithaca Free Clinic #1 Patient Agency
• Notes about Sleep and Herbs
• Valerian Monograph
• Medicinal Uses of Wild Hydrangea
• Tribute to Michael Moore
• Bog Blog or, Wetlands I Have Known
• Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby Frontier Doctor
• The Tincture Press with Diagrams to Build One
• Wild Lettuce-Preparing a Concentrated Tincture
• Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) Monograph-Medicinal Uses, Preparations, and Botanical Notes
• The Search for Damiana and other Adventures in Baja California
• Gathering and Preparing Japanese Barberry Root
• The Botany of Skunk Cabbage
• Staph Infections-An Herbalist’s Perspective
• Asthma-An Herbalist’s First Aid Perspective
• Arnica as a First Aid Medicine
• Turkey Rhubarb-a useful laxative
• Carnivorous Plants Of The Carolina Coast
• Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)

 

Northeast School of Botanical Medicine Handouts

Botany

• Botanical Identification Steps
• Plant Phylogeny Chart
• Guidelines for using Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
• Identification of Woody Plants in Winter
• Botany for the Herbalist: Plant Families

First Aid

• Herbal First Aid for Large Groups
• An Herbalist’s View-Digestive Problems in First Aid
• An Herbalist’s View of the Digestive System-Treatment
• An Herbalist’s View-Herbal First Aid-Eye Problems
• An Herbalist’s View-Herbal First Aid-Setting Up a First Aid Station
• An Herbalist’s View-Herbal First Aid-Soft Tissue Injury
• Herbal First Aid-Wound Care
• First Aid Checklist-Generic
• First Aid Checklist for Rainbow Gathering 2024
• First Aid Checklist for RNC 2016
• Principal Plants of Herbal First Aid
• Staph Infections-An Herbalist’s Perspective
• The Vehicle Herbal First Aid Kit
• Wilderness First Aid: Pain and Trauma, Food and Water-Borne Illness, Animal Bites and Scratches

Body Systems

• Herbalist’s View-Cardiovascular System
• Herbalist’s View of the Digestive System
• Herbalist’s View- Immunity and Lymph
• Herbalist’s View- Male Health
• Herbalists View- Nervous System
• Herbs for the Respiratory System
• Herbalists view-Kidneys and Urinary System
• Herbalist’s View of the Liver

Medicine Preparation and Herbal Pharmacy

• Herbal Pharmacy-Tincture Ratios
• Herbal Pharmacy-Preparing Formulas by Parts
• How to Prepare Herbal Compresses

 Clinical Skills and Practice

• Herbalist’s View-Patient Compliance for the Clinical Herbalist
• Herbalistic Practices
• Guidelines for Intake

 Specific Health Issues

• Asthma-An Herbalist’s First Aid Perspective
• An Herbalist’s View-Allergic Reactions
• Herbalist’s View-Approaches to Colds and Flus
• Herbalists View- Headaches
• Herbalist’s View-Notes on Lyme Disease
• An Herbalist’s Notes-COVID-19
• The Snow Shoveler’s Herbal Guide
• Anxiety and Herbal Medicine

Other Subjects

• Common Medicinal Plants of the Northeast
• Herbal Properties
• Wildcrafting for the Practicing Herbalist
• The Herbalist Street Medic
• Practicing as a Clinical Herbalist at a Free Clinic
• Permethrin Instructions

Handout Binder

Handout Binder 2024-most years, I go through my handouts, fix some of them up, put them in order, and make a paper binder for the students. This is an online version of that binder with hyperlinks. It is 281 double-sided pages.

 

Books, Tools, and Equipment Lists

• Book and Resource List 2024
• Tool and Equipment List 2024

Wildcrafting Lists

These are lists I made for gathering and admiring different plants during the year. These lists focus on the Northeastern US.

• Wildcrafting List-May
• Wildcrafting List-July
• Wildcrafting List-Autumn

Specific Medicinal Plants

• Arnica Monograph
• Chaparral Monograph (Larrea tridentata)
• Anemone Monograph
• Ligusticum-Osha- Focus on first aid uses
• Valerian Monograph
• Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) Monograph

Dystopian Post-Collapse Classes

These classes are often regional, and the various handouts may have different medicinal plants or scenarios due to the location of the class.

• Herbalism for the Post-Collapse, Dystopian Herbal Medicine-“Rise of the Hudson Valley Herbalist”
• Post Collapse Class-Rise of the Herbalist-Ithaca Version 2024

Brochures

• A Guide to Herbal Preparations-Print double-sided, short-edge binding. It is two pages.
• What is Herbal Medicine, An Overview-Print double-sided, short-edge binding. It is a trifold.
  

Ithaca Free Clinic

Herbalist Consultations at the Ithaca Free Clinic-these are the steps and directions for setting up a free herbal consultation at the Ithaca Free Clinic (December 11, 2020).

PowerPoint Presentations

• Practicing as an Herbalist in an Integrative Free Clinic
  This is a large file and may take a few minutes to download. It will load in a ‘slideshow’ format. To navigate the slides, use the arrows on your computer. To get out of it, use the ‘ESC’ button.
• Principal Plants in Herbal First Aid
  A simple description of some of the plants I commonly use in first aid.

Charts

I made these charts for the Ithaca Free Clinic waiting room. They are set up for quick information for some common health issues, and to make them pretty, they have photos of each of the plants.  The ‘Notes’ handout below is to help flush out details.

• Chart-Herbal Medicines for Anxiety, Depression and Sleep
• Chart-Herbal Medicines for Pain
• Notes for Common Remedies

Class Outlines and Notes

These are outlines I made in preparation for presentations and classes.  They are here for folks making similar presentations and are looking for outline notes. They are personalized but can be adapted to your needs.

• Herbalism for the Post Collapse, Dystopian Herbal Medicine ‘Rise of the Herbalist’.
• Holistic Medicine in the Free Clinic – This was written for a talk I on gave at the National Association of Free Clinics.

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External Resources