Herbal Clinician II Color Ebook

Approaches, Assessment, & Skills

Compiled by the Editors of

Plant Healer Quarterly

300 Pages – 8.5x11

For the many years Plant Healer Quarterly has been published, our mission has been to inform, equip and empower a more naturally healthful world, including providing the fundamental skills and tools needed for developing the most effective medicinal herb practice possible.

To this end, we have compiled a series of books for clinical practitioners and all those intending to treat their selves and others with botanicals, beginning with the huge first Herbal Clinician (Volume I), and including this 2nd volume and subsequent titles.

Compiled here are an additional 33 original articles drawn from Plant Healer Quarterly issues and Class Essays ebooks, authored by 20 of the most insightful and compelling writers ever in the field of herbalism.

Herbal Clinician II has been organized into three sections, covering:

Approaches: Intake insights and protocol, placebos, success criteria, marginalized populations, integrating herbalism into the conventional medical system, and the intersection of nursing and plant medicine

AssessmentSensory explorations, energetics, constitutional and humoral approaches, tongue assessment, and condition evaluation

SkillsEssential science for herbalists, minimizing bias, red flag symptoms, blood work, lab values, herbal constituents, dosage, herb/drug interactions, contraindications, and patient compliance.

I Approaches

Jim McDonald Putting Ideas Into Practice

Paul Bergner Sitting With a Patient

Bevin Clare Intake, Interview, & Assessment

Paul Bergner Getting The Story Right

Paul Bergner- The Art-of-Followup

Paul Bergner Critical Intuition: Projection vs Intuition

Paul Bergner Placebo

Paul Bergner Becoming a Master Herbalist in 30 Years or More

Christophe Bernard Tools For The Clinic: Success Criteria & Journaling

Ryan Drum Rural Pathology, Rural Herbs

Alanna Whitney Transgender Competency for Herbalists

7Song Integrating Herbal Medicine Into The Current System

Wendy Hounsel Bridge-Walking: Nursing & Herbalism Intersecting

II Assessments

Rachel Berndt Sensory Exploration of Actions, Energetics & Tastes

Lisa Ganora Organo-EnergetiLeptics

Kiva Rose Hardin Elemental Energetics

Kristin Henningsen Constitutional Assessment Through a Global Lens

Kristin Henningsen Patterns of Discontent: Stagnation & Support

Jim McDonald Humoural Assessment & Treatments

Larken Bunce Tongue Assessment for Western Herbalists

Shana Lipner Grover Michael Moore’s Constitutional Physiology

Shana Lipner Grover Liver Excess & Deficiency

III Skills

Paul Bergner Functional Scientific Literacy - Part I

Paul Bergner Functional Scientific Literacy - Part II:

Confirmation Bias & Selective Citation

Ingrid Bauer Red Flags For Herbalists

Thomas Easley Blood Work

Wendy Hounsel Lab Values for Herbalists

Lisa Ganora Herbal Constituents

Thomas Easley Dosage Strategies: Historic & Contemporary

Phyllis Light Herb/Drug Interactions

Lisa Ganora Herb/Drug Interactions

Juliette Carr Contraindications

7Song Patient Compliance For The Clinician

We are proud to offer you Herbal Clinician II – will the hope it will fuel and further both your current and future good works!