01SW17 - Female System Herbs from the Four Directions extracts developed in the 1820-30s and

developed in the 1820-30s and are an underexplored trove of highly useful clinical information

and lays the groundwork for preventing and treating neurologic inflammation and degeneration with botanicals and nutrients

mild to moderate depression and mild cognitive impairment

chronic insomnia does not usually respond as well because often there is an underlying deficiency

01SW17 - Female System Herbs from the Four Directions extracts developed in the 1820-30s andSpeaker: Paul Bergner. A model for the study of herbal materia medica from four different directions: folk medicine, modern science, case reports personal experience, and shamanic instinctual healing. Discusses the contributions of each direction, and introduces a model for integrating them into a whole understanding of the therapeutic actions of a particular botanical medicine. Examples used are black cohosh and Viburnum spp.