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- “Birds Do It, Bees Do It:” Foods and herbs to spice up your love life
- 10 Principles for Achieving Optimal Weight and Healthy Eating
- 20 Tips for Achieving Optimal Weight and Healthy Eating
- A Beautiful Poem to Live by . . .
- A Better Way to Reap the Phenomenal Benefits of Noni
- A Few of My Favorite Herbal Things
- A Great Summer Sip: Cooling Chrysanthemum
- A Recipe for Chinese Three Treasure Tonic Tea
- A tiny new addition to our East West family
- A Tribute to Aviva Romm
- Acid Reflux Disease (GERD): Causes, Treatment and Prevention
- Acorus calamus (Sweet flag)
- Adulteration of Chinese Herbs: A Different Perspective
- Agastache for Summer’s End
- All complementary medicine is placebo? Gimme a break!
- Alleviate Grief with Albizia, “The Tree of Happiness”
- Amatierra: A Rejuvenating Retreat in Costa Rica
- Amazing Grace: President-elect Barack Obama
- American Botanical Council Honors Michael Tierra with Community Builder Award
- An Appeal for Complementary, Integrated Health Care Modalities to Be a Part of Any Future American Health Care Plan
- An Herbalist’s Autumn, plus Herbal Cold and Flu Prevention Tips
- An Unforgettable Educational and Cultural Experience: East West Students in China
- Announcing: The East West Home Herbalist Course
- Appreciate the Little Things
- Are Herbs from the West Really the Best?
- Astragalus for immunity
- Aviva Romm and the AHG
- Back to Basics: Making Herbal Teas with Brigitte Mars
- Bacopa monnieri: The True Brahmi
- Belief, Placebo, and True Healing
- Berberine Buddies, Part 1
- Berberine Buddies, Part 2
- Bermuda Grass (Durva): The Second Holiest Herb; The Number One Weed!
- Beyond cranberry: Simple and effective herbal treatment for urinary tract infections
- Bigger, Better, More: The Brand New East West Herb Course Is Here!
- Black Cohosh, East and West: Part 2
- Black Cohosh: East and West Part 1
- Blog List
- Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang to treat a wide range of diseases based in Spleen Qi and Yin Deficiency
- Butterbur for Allergies
- Calendula, the Western Safflower
- Calm Your Mind, Silence Your Thoughts with Bindi Tapping
- Cardamom: Your Best Friend
- Care for the Caregiver, Part 1
- Care for the Caregiver, Part 2
- Care for Your Heart This Valentine Season
- Cayenne: Another Rude, Crude, Unsung Hero
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Comfrey for Unity
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Cyperus for Self-Determination
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Dang Gui for Creativity
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Ginseng and Astragalus for Cooperative Economics
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Goldenseal and Marijuana for Collective Work and Responsibility
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Skullcap for Faith
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: White Atractylodes for Purpose
- Celery Stalk: A Powerful Anti-Inflammatory
- Chyawanprash: A Delicious, Nutritious Herbal Tonic
- Citrus: Fruit or Peel?
- Clinician-Client Connection (or, The Ritual of Medicine)
- Clinician’s Corner: Pulse Diagnosis
- Clove: The Old “New” Spice?
- Codonopsis: The “Other” Ginseng
- Colds, Flu and Fevers: Just Sweat It Out
- Comfrey Comfort
- Common Misconceptions about Herbal Medicine
- Confession
- Confessions of a Weight Gainer — and Loser
- Cooking with Herbs for the Holidays
- Cordyceps, the strange ‘herb’
- Corydalis yanhusuo for inflammatory and neuropathic pain
- Costa Rica: Plant Paradise
- Crafting an Effective Treatment for Cancer Using Conventional and Complementary Methods
- Cultivate Your Virtues this Valentine’s Season
- Curing Pills: Don’t Leave Home without Them
- Current Herbal Regulation in the UK
- Dandelion, Burdock, and Cancer
- Dandelion: My Favorite Spring Herb
- Diet and Herb Tips for Spring Health
- Dietary Cold and Flu Prevention Tips
- DMSO: What’s Good for Your Horse Just May Be Good for You
- Does the U.S. really have the greatest healthcare system in the world?
- Dragon’s Eyes — Longan Berries
- Dui Yao Therapy: When Two Herbs are Better than One
- East West Free Clinic Update: Bleeding and cupping treatment for severe back pain
- East West Goes to China!
- Eat a Full Fat Breakfast and Lose Weight?
- Ebola and Traditional Chinese Medicine: Nothing New Under the Sun?
- End of Summer Tummy Woes
- EU Set to Ban Hundreds of Herbal Remedies in 2011
- Exploring the Rewilded Cave of Ancient Hawaii
- Faith, Herbs or Placebo?
- Fall Power: Loquat Leaves
- Fasting for Detoxification and Weight Loss
- Feverfew and Chrysanthemum
- Find Your Hospital Advocate, Part 2
- Find Your Hospital Advocate: Part 1
- Finding Western Substitutes for Chinese Herbs: Accept the Challenge!
- Fish Oil Not What You Expected? Try Herbs for Cardiovascular Health
- Forget H1N1; The real world health threat is Big Pharma
- Formulas Using Dandelion to Clear Heat and Toxins
- Garlic: Rude, Crude, Unsung Hero
- Gifts for Herbalists (and Others) on Your List
- Give Thanks to Your Illness with “Metaphor-phosis”
- Giving Thanks for Calendula
- Global Warming and My Garden
- Got Shen? Part 1
- Got Shen? Part 2
- Guest Blog
- Guest Blog Feature: Chris Hobbs on Gentiana lutea and Bitters
- Guest Blog: How to Study Herbal Medicine by Kristi Shapla
- Have a REALLY Happy Valentine’s Day!
- Hawthorn Fruit Wine: An Herb for Healing and Opening the Heart
- Hawthorn Oxymel
- Hawthorn: Teaching an Old Herb New Tricks
- Healing Crisis, or Wrong Formula?
- Healing the Whole Person
- Herbal “Flavor” vs. “Taste”: What’s the Difference?
- Herbal Medicines: The Most Effective Ways and the Best Times to Take Them
- Herbal Tonics: East and West
- Herbal Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Herbalists, Keep Learning: You Know More than You Know
- Herbology and Herbalism: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Herbs and Supplements for Radiation Exposure
- Herbs for Fall Dry Coughs
- Herbs for H. pylori and gastric inflammation
- Herbs for Late Summer
- Hibiscus and Jewelweed: More Summertime Herbs
- Honeysuckle: Taking the Bitter with the Sweet
- Horsetail
- How Is Herbal Medicine Practiced in Modern-Day China?
- How to Drain Your Essence
- How to Get Sick
- How to Lose Weight: One Herbalist’s Journey
- How to Prevent Flu with Herbs
- How We Protect Your Information
- Hypertension II (Too!): A TCM look at types of high blood pressure
- I Tried Everything for Shingles. Here’s What Worked.
- In Search of Figgy Treats
- In Search of the True Mediterranean Diet
- In Thanksgiving to Barefoot Doctors
- Influenza Revisited
- Intranasal Calamus Oil: Effective Treatment for Down Syndrome and Autism
- Introducing: the East West Free Herbal Clinic
- It Doesn’t Have to Taste Bad!: Administering Herbal Medicines to Children by Michael Tierra
- Joint of the Seasons: Fall
- Know Your Ferment Metabolites
- Kratom: The Herbal Pain-Relieving Answer to the Opioid Epidemic?
- Kratom: Uses, Dosage, Administration, and Contraindications
- Kudzu found effective for relief of cluster headaches
- Late Summer: Season of Earth
- Lemon balm and other mints for the treatment of herpes
- Lesley’s Blog
- Like Treats Like: Ragweed to Treat Allergies
- Looking back … and forward, at Natural Products Expo East
- Make a summer herbal salve for bites, stings and scrapes
- Make Every Day Thanks-giving
- Making the Most of One Herb: Elecampane
- Managing Aggressive Flu with Homeopathic and Herbal Remedies
- Maral Root: A Lesser Known Adaptogen from Russia
- Merry Mistletoe
- Michael Moore, 1941-2009
- Michael’s Blog
- Miriam Lee (1926-2009): the mother of North American Acupuncture
- Mitochondria and Brain Supplements
- Moxa for Back Pain, Colds and Flu
- Moxa for Menstrual Irregularities, Infertility and Insomnia
- Moxibustion and Stomach 36
- Mulberry Dreams
- Mung Bean for Hypertension
- Mung Bean for Summer Illness
- My Favorite (Herbal) Things for Holiday Giving
- New Year’s Resolution: don’t just lose weight, get healthy
- New York Attorney’s Botched Attempt to Regulate the Herbal Industry
- Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity — Fact or Fiction?
- Not All Sugar Is Bad: Glucose for Your Brain, Nerves, Heart and Muscles
- Notation Tips for Herbalists and other Complementary Health Practitioners
- Nourish Your Yin with Yi Guan Jian
- Nourish Yourself with Shilajit for Valentine’s Day
- Nourishing Your Body, Heart and Spirit During the Holiday Season
- Nutmeg: for Insomnia, Anxiety and Better Intimacy
- On Ghosts and Bones and Dragon Bone . . .
- Onion Poultice for Deep-Seated Coughs
- Ophiopogon – Another Favorite Herb
- Ophiopogon: A Common Garden Ornamental with Superpowers
- Oregano: An herbal treatment for MRSA?
- Oregon Grape Root: A Versatile Herb
- Panax Ginseng: The World’s Greatest Tonic Herb
- Perceived Gluten Sensitivity and Traditional Herbal Approaches
- Pomegranate compounds inhibit breast cancer
- Premio 10: The Most Useful Healing Tool I Discovered in 2013
- Pressed for Time: Piano and Plants in Fort Worth, Texas
- Preventing and Treating Seasonal Allergies with Neti, Triphala and Honey
- Protect yourself from the holiday blues with an herbal talisman
- Quickly Clearing those Wind-Chill Colds and Flu
- Release the Past with Ho’Oponopono
- Remembering Victoria Fortner: Herbalist, Healer, Friend
- Rhodiola to the Rescue
- Richo Cech, Plant Whisperer and Author of “The Medicinal Herb Grower”
- Salmonella contamination of kratom
- Salmonella in Spices and the Herbal Treatment of Food Poisoning
- Salvia, Our Saving Grace
- San Qi or Tienqi Ginseng: A Premier Herb to Stop Bleeding
- Shed Light on Your Life this New Year
- Shilajit (Moomiyo), the Monarch of Tonics
- Simple Steps to Health and Happiness
- Snap Your Spleen Back in Shape! Part 1
- Snap Your Spleen Back into Shape! Part 2
- Some of My Favorite Herbs and Therapies
- Some Useful Ideas and Tips for Weight Loss
- Sow Some Wild Oats this Valentine’s Day
- Spice Up Your Holiday with Healing Culinary Herbs
- Spice up your holidays
- Spring Tips for a Happy Liver
- Springtime Colds, Flu and/or Allergies
- Start Your New Year off Right – Do Nothing!
- Stillness in Action
- Studies substantiating the energetic properties of herbs based on flavors and organ meridians
- Summer Soup (Kicharee)
- Summer’s Back: Is It Supporting You?
- Summertime: The Heart Time of Year
- Sweet Herbal Holiday Treats
- Swine Flu Vaccinations and Antiviral Drugs: A Matter of Faith
- Swine Flu: Media hype and a boon to the pharmaceutical industry
- That Other Flu Rose: Garlic
- The “Bitter Brew” Vindicated by Science
- The Additional Wonders of “Benefit Lung Pills”
- The Age of the Piano Recital is Not Dead!
- The Art of Herbal Formulary
- The Botanic Gardens of Kauai and Humankind’s Infatuation with Plants
- The Concept of “Heat” in Traditional Chinese Medicine
- The Fifth Stagnation: Food Stagnation, Part 1
- The Fifth Stagnation: Food Stagnation, Part 2
- The Fire Without and the Fire Within: Herbal and Health Tips for Summer
- The First Stagnation: Qi Stagnation, Part 1
- The First Stagnation: Qi Stagnation, Part 2
- The Fourth Stagnation: Damp Stagnation, Part 1
- The Fourth Stagnation: Damp Stagnation, Part 2
- The Low-FODMAP Elimination Diet
- The Mighty Ashwagandha, Superior Aphrodisiac and Male Fertility Tonic
- The Mother of All Diseases: Stagnation (Part One)
- The Mother of All Diseases: Stagnation (Part Two)
- The Oldest Herb Shop in Barcelona
- The Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease with Herbs: Part 1
- The Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 2
- The Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 3
- The Second Stagnation: Blood Stasis, Part 1
- The Second Stagnation: Blood Stasis, Part 2
- The Third Stagnation: Cold Stagnation, Part 1
- The Third Stagnation: Cold Stagnation, Part 2
- The Three Levels of Healing
- The Wonders of Moxa, Part 1
- The Wonders of Moxa, Part 2
- The Wonders of Wan Hua Oil
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Things Part 1
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Things Part 2
- Three Essential First Aid Herbs for Travel
- Throwing Down the Gauntlet on Sugar!
- Tinnitus Treatments by East West Teacher Holly Hutton
- Tonic Herb Master Ron Teeguarden Visits East West Seminar
- Traditional Herbal and Western Conventional Medical Treatment Options for Hypertension
- Treat the Person, Not the Disease
- Treating Arthritis, Lower Back and Joint Pains
- Treating Chronic, Complicated Conditions with Li Dong Yuan’s Pi Wei Lun
- Treating GERD with Chinese Medicine
- Triphala and Elderberry for IBS
- Triphala for Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Study
- Triphala, Honey, and Castor Oil for Healthy Eyes
- Turmeric: Pros, Cons, and Contraindications
- Two Acupoints for the Price of One: GB 20 and Krikatika Marma for Allergies, Headache and More
- Two Foods to Help You Keep Cool This Summer
- Two Immortals
- UK set for herbal regulation? Say it ain’t so!
- Universal health care for the United States?
- Untangling Yin Deficiency with Heat
- Vanquish the Flu with Elderberry
- Walnuts: For Back Pain, Stress, High Cholesterol, Weight Loss, Longevity and Fish!
- Watch Yourself! A great tool for self-diagnosis
- Weight Loss Plateaus and Exercise
- Welcome to Lesley’s New Practice!
- Welcome to our brand new home on the Web!
- Wen Dan Tang
- What About Quince? Medicinal Uses
- What is “Gao Jelly”?
- What Is the Best Herbal Preparation for Your Condition?
- What You See Is What You Eat: Portion Control
- What’s a Tonic?
- When “Going Viral” Isn’t a Good Thing
- When Does “Health-Conscious” Become “Health-Obsessed”?
- When Should I Take My Herbal Formula?
- Where Music and Herbalism Meet: Notes on “Arcana”
- White Rice vs. Brown Rice: Which Is Best?
- Why Herbs Aren’t Regulated the Same Way Drugs Are
- Why the “Energy” of Herbs is Critical to Their Success in Treatment
- Wild Cherry, One of the Great North American Herbs
- Wildcrafting in the Sierra Wilderness
- Wind-Chill Colds and Flu: What They Are and How to Treat Them
- Winter diet, herb and lifestyle reminders for a healthy year ahead
- Winter: Time to Rest, Rest, Rest!
- Wishing You a Do-Be New Year
- Wonderful Celebration and Healing Song
Book Reviews
- A Short Comparison of the Spleen in TCM and Western Medicine
- Book Review: “Brew Your Medicine” by Kristi Shapla
- Book Review: “Eat Wheat” by Dr. John Douillard
- Book Review: “The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants” by Anna Pavord
- Book Review: Ayurveda in Nepal by Vaidya Mana Bajra Bajracharya
- Book Review: Botany in a Day gets a new color edition
- Book Review: Chinese Herbal Medicines: Comparisons and Characteristics
- Book Review: Dandelion Hunter by Rebecca Lerner
- Book Review: Modern Herbal Medicine by Steven Horne and Thomas Easley
- Book Review: The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution by Dr. Aviva Romm
- Breitenbush 2011: A 30-Year-Reunion for North American Pioneer Herbalists
- Chinese Herbal Secrets by Stefan Chmelik, publ. by Avery
- Healing with the Herbs of Life by Lesley Tierra
- Herbal Medicine by Rudolf Weiss M.D. and Volker Fintelmann, M.D. second edition, revised and expanded 1999
- Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer by Donald R. Yance, Jr. C.N., M.H., A.H.G. with Arlene Valentine
- Herbal Medicine: From The Heart of the Earth, Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
- Prescription Alternatives –hundreds of safe, natural, prescription-free remedies to restore your health & energy by Earl Mindell, R.Ph.D. & Virginia Hopkins, M.A.
- Pulses and Impulses by Graham Townsend and Ysha De Donna
- The Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis
- The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook by Alan Tillotson
- Treating Cancer with Herbs by Michael Tierra
- Triphala: Effective Treatment for Gingivitis
- Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
Cancer Book
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter I
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter II
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter III
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter IV
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter IX
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter V
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter VI
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter VII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter VIII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter X
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XI
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XIII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XIV
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XIX
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XV
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XVI
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XVII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XVIII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XX
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Contents
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Forward
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Introduction
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Preface
Case Studies
Consultation
Diagnosis
Diet
EWCH Graduates
- Alan Keith Tillotson, Registered Herbalst, EWCH
- Aviva Romm, EWCH
- Benjamin Zappin, EWCH
- Bodil P Meleney, EWCH
- Christopher Hobbs, EWCH
- Craig Williams, EWCH
- Gene Newsome, EWCH
- Holly Dunbar, EWCH
- Holly Hutton, EWCH
- Howard Silvestre, EWCH
- James Reinhart, EWCH
- Jennifer Boys, EWCH
- Jennifer Grady, EWCH
- Jill Ruttenberg, EWCH
- John Smith, EWCH
- Laurence Layne, EWCH
- Lorraine Hughes, EWCH
- Meret Giacomini, EWCH
- Michele Collins, EWCH
- Miles Coleman, EWCH
- Mo Horner, EWCH
- Nancy T Angelini, LMT, EWCH
- Nathan Shannon, EWCH
- Nicholas Schnell, EWCH
- Nicole MacDonald, EWCH
- Peggy Carlaw, EWCH
- Rosalee de la Foret, EWCH
- Roy Upton, EWCH
- Shoshanna Katzman, EWCH
- Susan Coombs, EWCH
- Susan Kramer, EWCH
- Tobi Jane Panter, EWCH
- Tracy Richardson, EWCH
- Vicki Pitman, EWCH
- Wendy Knoebel, EWCH
Guest Blog
Guest Teachers
- Amanda McQuade Crawford
- Andy Ellis
- Aviva Romm, M.D.
- Brian Kie Weissbuch L.Ac.
- Christopher Hobbs
- David L. Hoffmann B.Sc. (Hons), M.N.I.M.H.
- Efrem Korngold
- Harriet Beinfield
- Holly Guzman
- Ingrid Bauer, MD, MS
- James Min
- Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, D.N.-C., R.H.
- Larken Bunce
- Richo Cech
- Ron Teeguarden
- Roy Upton, RH, Dip Ayu,
- William Morris, PhD, DAOM, MSEd, LAc
Herbal Courses
History
How to Choose
Kids Herbs
Lesleys Blog
- A Beautiful Poem to Live by . . .
- A Few of My Favorite Herbal Things
- A Great Summer Sip: Cooling Chrysanthemum
- A Tribute to Aviva Romm
- Acorus calamus (Sweet flag)
- Agastache for Summer’s End
- Amatierra: A Rejuvenating Retreat in Costa Rica
- American Botanical Council Honors Michael Tierra with Community Builder Award
- Announcing: The East West Home Herbalist Course
- Appreciate the Little Things
- Are Herbs from the West Really the Best?
- Astragalus for immunity
- Back to Basics: Making Herbal Teas with Brigitte Mars
- Berberine Buddies, Part 1
- Berberine Buddies, Part 2
- Bigger, Better, More: The Brand New East West Herb Course Is Here!
- Black Cohosh, East and West: Part 2
- Black Cohosh: East and West Part 1
- Calendula, the Western Safflower
- Cardamom: Your Best Friend
- Care for the Caregiver, Part 1
- Care for the Caregiver, Part 2
- Care for Your Heart This Valentine Season
- Celery Stalk: A Powerful Anti-Inflammatory
- Citrus: Fruit or Peel?
- Clinician-Client Connection (or, The Ritual of Medicine)
- Clove: The Old “New” Spice?
- Codonopsis: The “Other” Ginseng
- Comfrey Comfort
- Confession
- Confessions of a Weight Gainer — and Loser
- Cooking with Herbs for the Holidays
- Cordyceps, the strange ‘herb’
- Costa Rica: Plant Paradise
- Cultivate Your Virtues this Valentine’s Season
- Dandelion: My Favorite Spring Herb
- Diet and Herb Tips for Spring Health
- East West Goes to China!
- End of Summer Tummy Woes
- Fall Power: Loquat Leaves
- Feverfew and Chrysanthemum
- Find Your Hospital Advocate, Part 2
- Find Your Hospital Advocate: Part 1
- Finding Western Substitutes for Chinese Herbs: Accept the Challenge!
- Formulas Using Dandelion to Clear Heat and Toxins
- Give Thanks to Your Illness with “Metaphor-phosis”
- Giving Thanks for Calendula
- Got Shen? Part 1
- Got Shen? Part 2
- Have a REALLY Happy Valentine’s Day!
- Hawthorn: Teaching an Old Herb New Tricks
- Healing Crisis, or Wrong Formula?
- Healing the Whole Person
- Herbal Tonics: East and West
- Herbalists, Keep Learning: You Know More than You Know
- Herbs for Fall Dry Coughs
- Herbs for Late Summer
- Hibiscus and Jewelweed: More Summertime Herbs
- Horsetail
- How Is Herbal Medicine Practiced in Modern-Day China?
- How to Drain Your Essence
- How to Get Sick
- Hypertension II (Too!): A TCM look at types of high blood pressure
- In Search of Figgy Treats
- In Thanksgiving to Barefoot Doctors
- Joint of the Seasons: Fall
- Late Summer: Season of Earth
- Make a summer herbal salve for bites, stings and scrapes
- Make Every Day Thanks-giving
- Making the Most of One Herb: Elecampane
- Merry Mistletoe
- Mitochondria and Brain Supplements
- Mulberry Dreams
- Mung Bean for Summer Illness
- Notation Tips for Herbalists and other Complementary Health Practitioners
- Nourish Your Yin with Yi Guan Jian
- Nourish Yourself with Shilajit for Valentine’s Day
- Nourishing Your Body, Heart and Spirit During the Holiday Season
- On Ghosts and Bones and Dragon Bone . . .
- Ophiopogon – Another Favorite Herb
- Ophiopogon: A Common Garden Ornamental with Superpowers
- Oregon Grape Root: A Versatile Herb
- Quickly Clearing those Wind-Chill Colds and Flu
- Release the Past with Ho’Oponopono
- Rhodiola to the Rescue
- Salvia, Our Saving Grace
- San Qi or Tienqi Ginseng: A Premier Herb to Stop Bleeding
- Shed Light on Your Life this New Year
- Shilajit (Moomiyo), the Monarch of Tonics
- Snap Your Spleen Back in Shape! Part 1
- Snap Your Spleen Back into Shape! Part 2
- Some of My Favorite Herbs and Therapies
- Spice Up Your Holiday with Healing Culinary Herbs
- Spice up your holidays
- Spring Tips for a Happy Liver
- Start Your New Year off Right – Do Nothing!
- Stillness in Action
- Summer Soup (Kicharee)
- Summer’s Back: Is It Supporting You?
- Summertime: The Heart Time of Year
- Sweet Herbal Holiday Treats
- That Other Flu Rose: Garlic
- The Additional Wonders of “Benefit Lung Pills”
- The Fifth Stagnation: Food Stagnation, Part 1
- The Fifth Stagnation: Food Stagnation, Part 2
- The Fire Without and the Fire Within: Herbal and Health Tips for Summer
- The First Stagnation: Qi Stagnation, Part 1
- The First Stagnation: Qi Stagnation, Part 2
- The Fourth Stagnation: Damp Stagnation, Part 1
- The Fourth Stagnation: Damp Stagnation, Part 2
- The Mother of All Diseases: Stagnation (Part One)
- The Mother of All Diseases: Stagnation (Part Two)
- The Oldest Herb Shop in Barcelona
- The Second Stagnation: Blood Stasis, Part 1
- The Second Stagnation: Blood Stasis, Part 2
- The Third Stagnation: Cold Stagnation, Part 1
- The Third Stagnation: Cold Stagnation, Part 2
- The Wonders of Moxa, Part 1
- The Wonders of Moxa, Part 2
- The Wonders of Wan Hua Oil
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Things Part 1
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Things Part 2
- Three Essential First Aid Herbs for Travel
- Throwing Down the Gauntlet on Sugar!
- Treat the Person, Not the Disease
- Treating GERD with Chinese Medicine
- Turmeric: Pros, Cons, and Contraindications
- Two Foods to Help You Keep Cool This Summer
- Two Immortals
- Vanquish the Flu with Elderberry
- Watch Yourself! A great tool for self-diagnosis
- Welcome to Lesley’s New Practice!
- Wen Dan Tang
- What About Quince? Medicinal Uses
- What is “Gao Jelly”?
- What Is the Best Herbal Preparation for Your Condition?
- When “Going Viral” Isn’t a Good Thing
- When Should I Take My Herbal Formula?
- Why the “Energy” of Herbs is Critical to Their Success in Treatment
- Wind-Chill Colds and Flu: What They Are and How to Treat Them
- Winter diet, herb and lifestyle reminders for a healthy year ahead
- Winter: Time to Rest, Rest, Rest!
- Wishing You a Do-Be New Year
- Wonderful Celebration and Healing Song
Meet Our Instructors
- Benjamin Zappin, L.AC.
- Candis Cantin Kiriajes
- Darren Huckle, L. Ac.
- Ingrid Bauer, MD, MS
- Jennifer Grady, L. Ac.
- Jerry Angelini, MS, LRC, LMT
- Jill Barnattan
- Joshua Farahnik, RH AHG
- Nancy Angelini
- Roy Upton, RH, Dip Ayu,
- Susan Kramer, RH
Michaels Blog
- “Birds Do It, Bees Do It:” Foods and herbs to spice up your love life
- 10 Principles for Achieving Optimal Weight and Healthy Eating
- 20 Tips for Achieving Optimal Weight and Healthy Eating
- A Better Way to Reap the Phenomenal Benefits of Noni
- A Recipe for Chinese Three Treasure Tonic Tea
- A tiny new addition to our East West family
- Acid Reflux Disease (GERD): Causes, Treatment and Prevention
- Adulteration of Chinese Herbs: A Different Perspective
- All complementary medicine is placebo? Gimme a break!
- Alleviate Grief with Albizia, “The Tree of Happiness”
- Amazing Grace: President-elect Barack Obama
- An Appeal for Complementary, Integrated Health Care Modalities to Be a Part of Any Future American Health Care Plan
- An Herbalist’s Autumn, plus Herbal Cold and Flu Prevention Tips
- An Unforgettable Educational and Cultural Experience: East West Students in China
- Aviva Romm and the AHG
- Bacopa monnieri: The True Brahmi
- Belief, Placebo, and True Healing
- Bermuda Grass (Durva): The Second Holiest Herb; The Number One Weed!
- Beyond cranberry: Simple and effective herbal treatment for urinary tract infections
- Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang to treat a wide range of diseases based in Spleen Qi and Yin Deficiency
- Butterbur for Allergies
- Calm Your Mind, Silence Your Thoughts with Bindi Tapping
- Cayenne: Another Rude, Crude, Unsung Hero
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Comfrey for Unity
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Cyperus for Self-Determination
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Ginseng and Astragalus for Cooperative Economics
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Goldenseal and Marijuana for Collective Work and Responsibility
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: Skullcap for Faith
- Celebrating the Seven Days of Kwanzaa: White Atractylodes for Purpose
- Chyawanprash: A Delicious, Nutritious Herbal Tonic
- Clinician’s Corner: Pulse Diagnosis
- Colds, Flu and Fevers: Just Sweat It Out
- Common Misconceptions about Herbal Medicine
- Corydalis yanhusuo for inflammatory and neuropathic pain
- Crafting an Effective Treatment for Cancer Using Conventional and Complementary Methods
- Curing Pills: Don’t Leave Home without Them
- Current Herbal Regulation in the UK
- Dandelion, Burdock, and Cancer
- Dietary Cold and Flu Prevention Tips
- DMSO: What’s Good for Your Horse Just May Be Good for You
- Does the U.S. really have the greatest healthcare system in the world?
- Dragon’s Eyes — Longan Berries
- Dui Yao Therapy: When Two Herbs are Better than One
- East West Free Clinic Update: Bleeding and cupping treatment for severe back pain
- Eat a Full Fat Breakfast and Lose Weight?
- Ebola and Traditional Chinese Medicine: Nothing New Under the Sun?
- EU Set to Ban Hundreds of Herbal Remedies in 2011
- Exploring the Rewilded Cave of Ancient Hawaii
- Faith, Herbs or Placebo?
- Fasting for Detoxification and Weight Loss
- Fish Oil Not What You Expected? Try Herbs for Cardiovascular Health
- Forget H1N1; The real world health threat is Big Pharma
- Garlic: Rude, Crude, Unsung Hero
- Gifts for Herbalists (and Others) on Your List
- Global Warming and My Garden
- Hawthorn Fruit Wine: An Herb for Healing and Opening the Heart
- Hawthorn Oxymel
- Herbal “Flavor” vs. “Taste”: What’s the Difference?
- Herbal Medicines: The Most Effective Ways and the Best Times to Take Them
- Herbal Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Herbology and Herbalism: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Herbs and Supplements for Radiation Exposure
- Herbs for H. pylori and gastric inflammation
- Honeysuckle: Taking the Bitter with the Sweet
- How to Lose Weight: One Herbalist’s Journey
- How to Prevent Flu with Herbs
- I Tried Everything for Shingles. Here’s What Worked.
- In Search of the True Mediterranean Diet
- Influenza Revisited
- Intranasal Calamus Oil: Effective Treatment for Down Syndrome and Autism
- Introducing: the East West Free Herbal Clinic
- It Doesn’t Have to Taste Bad!: Administering Herbal Medicines to Children by Michael Tierra
- Know Your Ferment Metabolites
- Kratom: The Herbal Pain-Relieving Answer to the Opioid Epidemic?
- Kratom: Uses, Dosage, Administration, and Contraindications
- Kudzu found effective for relief of cluster headaches
- Lemon balm and other mints for the treatment of herpes
- Like Treats Like: Ragweed to Treat Allergies
- Looking back … and forward, at Natural Products Expo East
- Maral Root: A Lesser Known Adaptogen from Russia
- Michael Moore, 1941-2009
- Miriam Lee (1926-2009): the mother of North American Acupuncture
- Moxa for Back Pain, Colds and Flu
- Moxa for Menstrual Irregularities, Infertility and Insomnia
- Moxibustion and Stomach 36
- Mung Bean for Hypertension
- My Favorite (Herbal) Things for Holiday Giving
- New Year’s Resolution: don’t just lose weight, get healthy
- New York Attorney’s Botched Attempt to Regulate the Herbal Industry
- Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity — Fact or Fiction?
- Not All Sugar Is Bad: Glucose for Your Brain, Nerves, Heart and Muscles
- Nutmeg: for Insomnia, Anxiety and Better Intimacy
- Onion Poultice for Deep-Seated Coughs
- Oregano: An herbal treatment for MRSA?
- Panax Ginseng: The World’s Greatest Tonic Herb
- Perceived Gluten Sensitivity and Traditional Herbal Approaches
- Pomegranate compounds inhibit breast cancer
- Premio 10: The Most Useful Healing Tool I Discovered in 2013
- Pressed for Time: Piano and Plants in Fort Worth, Texas
- Preventing and Treating Seasonal Allergies with Neti, Triphala and Honey
- Protect yourself from the holiday blues with an herbal talisman
- Remembering Victoria Fortner: Herbalist, Healer, Friend
- Richo Cech, Plant Whisperer and Author of “The Medicinal Herb Grower”
- Salmonella contamination of kratom
- Salmonella in Spices and the Herbal Treatment of Food Poisoning
- Simple Steps to Health and Happiness
- Some Useful Ideas and Tips for Weight Loss
- Sow Some Wild Oats this Valentine’s Day
- Springtime Colds, Flu and/or Allergies
- Studies substantiating the energetic properties of herbs based on flavors and organ meridians
- Swine Flu Vaccinations and Antiviral Drugs: A Matter of Faith
- Swine Flu: Media hype and a boon to the pharmaceutical industry
- The “Bitter Brew” Vindicated by Science
- The Age of the Piano Recital is Not Dead!
- The Art of Herbal Formulary
- The Botanic Gardens of Kauai and Humankind’s Infatuation with Plants
- The Concept of “Heat” in Traditional Chinese Medicine
- The Low-FODMAP Elimination Diet
- The Mighty Ashwagandha, Superior Aphrodisiac and Male Fertility Tonic
- The Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease with Herbs: Part 1
- The Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 2
- The Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease: Part 3
- The Three Levels of Healing
- Tinnitus Treatments by East West Teacher Holly Hutton
- Tonic Herb Master Ron Teeguarden Visits East West Seminar
- Traditional Herbal and Western Conventional Medical Treatment Options for Hypertension
- Treating Arthritis, Lower Back and Joint Pains
- Treating Chronic, Complicated Conditions with Li Dong Yuan’s Pi Wei Lun
- Triphala and Elderberry for IBS
- Triphala for Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Study
- Triphala, Honey, and Castor Oil for Healthy Eyes
- Two Acupoints for the Price of One: GB 20 and Krikatika Marma for Allergies, Headache and More
- UK set for herbal regulation? Say it ain’t so!
- Universal health care for the United States?
- Untangling Yin Deficiency with Heat
- Walnuts: For Back Pain, Stress, High Cholesterol, Weight Loss, Longevity and Fish!
- Weight Loss Plateaus and Exercise
- Welcome to our brand new home on the Web!
- What You See Is What You Eat: Portion Control
- What’s a Tonic?
- When Does “Health-Conscious” Become “Health-Obsessed”?
- Where Music and Herbalism Meet: Notes on “Arcana”
- White Rice vs. Brown Rice: Which Is Best?
- Why Herbs Aren’t Regulated the Same Way Drugs Are
- Wild Cherry, One of the Great North American Herbs
- Wildcrafting in the Sierra Wilderness
Other Items of Interest
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Research Center
- A Botanical Approach to the Treatment of Cancer
- A Comparative Evaluation of Diagnostic Systems used in Herbal Medicine
- A Comparison of the Spleen Between Chinese and Western Medicines
- A History of Herbalism for Herbalists, Part 1: How the Arabs Saved Greek Sciences
- A Selection of Four Case Histories from the East West Clinic
- A Short Comparison of the Spleen in TCM and Western Medicine
- Acupuncture Treatment Questions (FAQ)
- Albizia: The Tree of Happiness
- Alternative Therapies for Breast Cancer
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Asafoetida
- Ashwagandha: Wonder Herb of India
- Assembling an Herbal First Aid Kit
- Ayurveda and Family Planning
- Ayurveda: The Mother of Natural Healing
- Ayurvedic Treatment of Cancer
- Ayurvedic Treatment of Insomnia
- Barefoot Doctor Healing Techniques
- Basic Fat-Burning Soup and Seven-Day Diet Program
- Biomagnetic and Herbal Therapy
- Blackberry Wine
- Book Review: “Brew Your Medicine” by Kristi Shapla
- Book Review: “Eat Wheat” by Dr. John Douillard
- Book Review: “The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants” by Anna Pavord
- Book Review: Ayurveda in Nepal by Vaidya Mana Bajra Bajracharya
- Book Review: Botany in a Day gets a new color edition
- Book Review: Chinese Herbal Medicines: Comparisons and Characteristics
- Book Review: Dandelion Hunter by Rebecca Lerner
- Book Review: Modern Herbal Medicine by Steven Horne and Thomas Easley
- Book Review: The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution by Dr. Aviva Romm
- Book Reviews
- Botanicals for Thyroid Function and Dysfunction
- Breitenbush 2011: A 30-Year-Reunion for North American Pioneer Herbalists
- Brief History and Culture of Tobacco
- Butterbur
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter I
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter II
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter III
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter IV
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter IX
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter V
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter VI
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter VII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter VIII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter X
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XI
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XIII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XIV
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XIX
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XV
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XVI
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XVII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XVIII
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Chapter XX
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Contents
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Forward
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Introduction
- Cancer – Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment – Preface
- Cancer – Its causes, symptoms and treatment (book)
- Case history: 50 year-old male with hepatitis C and auto immune hepatitis
- Case Studies
- Case Study on the Changing Nature of Externally Contracted Diseases
- Chinese Herbal Secrets by Stefan Chmelik, publ. by Avery
- Chinese Herbalism in America
- Chinese Herbs for Peyronie’s Disease
- Chinese Massage Therapy Techniques: An Overview
- Chyawanprash
- Comparing the Liver According to Traditional Chinese and Western Scientifc Physiology
- Contemporary History of the Escharotic Black Salve
- Counteracting the Adverse Side Effects of Glucocorticoid Hormones with Chinese Herbs and Formulas
- Creating a Legal Profession
- DIABETES MELLITUS The TCM approach to treatment
- Diagnosis
- Diet
- Dietary and Herbal Tips for Pregnancy
- Divergent Meridian Points
- Dr. Miriam Lee’s Soup Recipes for Cancer, Anemia and Hypertension
- Eczema and other inflammatory skin diseases
- Elder (Sambucus nigra)
- European Phytotherapy: Some Selected Herbs and Supplements
- Flowers as Medicine
- Free Land: Free Love: Tales of a Wilderness Commune
- Fukishen Japanese Abdominal Diagnosis
- Garlic Butter Better for Preventing Heart Attacks
- Ginseng: The Effect of Steaming
- Guggul: An Herbal Preparation with Many Health-giving Uses
- Guidelines for Formulating a TCM Diagnosis
- Hara Diagnosis (Abdominal palpation)
- Healing with the Herbs of Life by Lesley Tierra
- Hepatitis C: The ‘Phantom virus’ and Hepatitis C Cases Successfully Treated with Herbs and Diet
- Herb Forum
- Herb-Drug Contraindications
- Herbal Medicine by Rudolf Weiss M.D. and Volker Fintelmann, M.D. second edition, revised and expanded 1999
- Herbal Medicine in Shakespeare’s England
- Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer by Donald R. Yance, Jr. C.N., M.H., A.H.G. with Arlene Valentine
- Herbal Medicine: From The Heart of the Earth, Sharol Tilgner, N.D.
- Herbal Proving: English Ivy, Hedera helix
- Herbal Proving: Lemon Balm, Melissa Officinalis
- Herbal Proving: Snapdragon Skullcap Scutellaria antirrhinoides
- Herbal Research Websites
- Herbal Treatment for AIDS Using Planetary Formulas
- Herbal Treatment of Arthritis and Rheumatic Pains
- Herbs for Spring Allergies
- History
- How to Cook a Chinese Herbal Formula
- How To Do A Liver Flush
- Hypothyroidism – Candida – Obesity: The Same Condition?
- Increase Vitality and Productivity With Some Simple Food Tips
- Integrating the Traditional Chinese Theory and Treatment of the Lungs with that of Western Physiology
- Integrating the Traditional Chinese Understanding of the Kidneys into Western Herbalism
- Is Soy Richer in Isoflavones?
- Jade Screen: Traditional Chinese formula to Strengthen the Immune System
- Jim Duke’s Brief History of Medicine (humor)
- Kava: Powerful Anti-Stress Herb
- Kichari: The Food of the Gods
- Lesley’s Blog
- Loquat Leaf, Fruit and Seed
- MD Hysteria Against Herbs Reaches Epidemic Proportions: Threatens Nation’s Health
- Michael’s Blog
- Moxibustion and Cancer
- Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus) Scrophulariaceae Family
- Narcolepsy
- Near Forgotten Remedies
- Nigella Sativa
- Notes on Herb-Drug and Herb-Herb Contraindications
- Other Items of Interest
- Our First Food, Protein: Kinds of Protein, How Our Bodies Use It, and How Much We Need
- Phytoestrogens
- Phytotherapy
- Planetary Formulas and Herbs for the Nervous System
- Prescription Alternatives –hundreds of safe, natural, prescription-free remedies to restore your health & energy by Earl Mindell, R.Ph.D. & Virginia Hopkins, M.A.
- Psychospiritual aspects of Herbal Medicine
- Pulses and Impulses by Graham Townsend and Ysha De Donna
- Rare Books
- Research Center Articles
- Research Progress in the Prevention and the Treatment for Endotoxic Diseases with Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Rhodiola Rosea
- Specific Herbs
- Stage C Prostate Cancer
- Summary of Traditional Eclectic Organ Affinity Botanicals
- TCM Treatment of Jaundice
- The Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis
- The Chinese Five Elements
- The Emmenagogues
- The Five Stagnations
- The Herbal Tradition
- The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook by Alan Tillotson
- The Role of Islamic Scholarship in Preserving and Developing Western Medicine During the Medieval Period: The Roots of Planetary Herbology
- The Seven Principles of Huna
- The Wonders of Triphala
- Theory
- Therapies and Treatments
- Thoughts on the Use of Escharotic Pastes for the Treatment of Cancer
- Three Commonly Used Herbs of Croatia
- Tonic Herb Theory for the Western Herbalist
- Topical Uses for Cannabis sativa L.
- Traditional Western Herbal Medicine
- Treating Cancer with Herbs by Michael Tierra
- Treating Depression with St. John’s Wort
- Treating Dupuytren’s Disease with Vitamin E
- Treating Hepatitis C with Herbs
- Treating Staph Infections Including MRSA with Echinacea
- Treating the Common Cold with Herbs
- Treatment of a Difficult Case of Psoriasis
- Treatment Protocol for Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.)
- Triphala: Effective Treatment for Gingivitis
- Upper Respiratory System
- Viola Herb (Zi Hua Di Ding, Herba Violae)
- Weeds as Medicine, Weeds as Food
- Welcome to the Research Center
- What about the Preparation of Herbs
- What Exactly Are Ferment Metabolites?
- What is Eclecticism?
- Why Standardized Herbal Extracts?
- Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
- Wood: the Liver and Gall Bladder
- Yorubic Medicine: The Art of divine Herbology
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- Holly Hutton, RH, AHG
- Ingrid Bauer, MD, MS
- Jennifer Grady, L. Ac.
- Jerry Angelini, MS, LRC, LMT
- Jill Barnattan
- Joshua Farahnik, RH AHG
- Lesley Tierra, L.AC., AHG
- Mariposa Bernstein
- Nancy Angelini
- Prashanti de Jager, Phd (cand), MS, EMT
- Roy Upton, RH, Dip Ayu,
- Sheila M. Devitt
- Susan Kramer, RH
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