Herbal Conformism and the Illusion of Normalcy:
A Response to Charles W. Kane
from the ‘Freak-Show Field’
by Jesse Wolf Hardin
Intro:
Charles W. Kane is an experienced clinical herbalist and self described “veteran of the war against terrorism.” Unlike the majority of modern day herbalists, he would not be likely to describe our field as “alternative medicine”, and brings [...]
Friends and clients joined in celebrating the launch of herbalist Kiva Rose’s mobile Village-Herbalist Clinic at her office in Catron County, New Mexico, in a formalizing of her years of providing herbal health consultations to the residents of this singularly remote region of the American Southwest.
The Medicine Woman [...]
Grassroots Herbalism: The Weeds & Wildlings of Folk Medicine
by Kiva Rose
Any of ya’ll who’ve been reading The Medicine Woman’s Roots for very long are likely familiar with my penchant for all things weedy and wild. Garden flowers are pretty enough, but I prefer the bad attitude of rebellious weeds and fierce insistence of wild plants [...]
I’ve recently opened an office, one day a week, at the new Frisco Wellness Center here in the local village of Reserve. I call my herbal and nutrition consulting The Medicine Woman Herbal Clinic, and share the space with Kristen Ehrlich, who is a massage therapist. While I’m already seeing folks there, we’re celebrating the [...]
Here you’ll find a few pointers for both neophyte and tenured herbalists practicing in rural areas based on my own experience. Seeing as my community is a tiny village in the mountains of New Mexico, I have neither office nor herb store nearby so I am my own walking dispensatory and workspace most of the [...]
