Image courtesy of Lisa Ganora
Have you ever wondered about the specifics of what makes plants so useful for us? There are many ways to experience herbal medicine. Sometimes we take more a spiritual approach, but today I want to invite you to take a closer looks at herbal constituents.
My guest is an amazing woman who makes this subject pretty exciting. Her name is Lisa Ganora. Lisa has been a traditional herbalist for more than 25 years and is an expert on the properties of phytochemical constituents in medicinal foods and herbs.
She is the Director of the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism. Lisa has written several distance-learning courses, produced various visual curriculum materials, and published the textbook Herbal Constituents.
By the end of this episode, you’ll learn about different ways plants use their unique chemistry and how we can utilize this knowledge of chemistry in prevention and healing.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
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How Lisa’s career as an herbalist began, why she decided to go back to school and study plant chemistry
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How understanding plant constituents guides you in preparing more potent herbal medicines
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How medicinal foods as biologically active phytochemicals contribute to your health maintenance and disease prevention
4.
Lisa’s favorite resources for herbal medicine preparation and herbal medicine in general
TRANSCRIPT:
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CONTACTING OUR GUEST:
- Lisa’s personal website, the site forColorado School of Clinical Herbalism andElderberry’sffarm, their Facebook page
““I like to call certain things ‘medicinal foods’ to highlight their high concentrations of beneficial phytochemicals. Most fruit and vegetables are collections of hundreds of biologically active phytochemicals contributing to health maintenance.”
Lisa Ganora
WEB RESOURCES:
- Dr. Jim Duke
- Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies
- North American Institute of Medical Herbalism(NAIMH)
- John Uri Lloyd,Lloyd Library
- Paul Bergner
- Herbal Medics Academy
- David Winston
- Aviva Romm
- Michael Moore’s Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
- John King,King’s American Dispensatory
- William Cook, Physiomedical Dispensatory
- Fenners Formulary
BOOKS:
Herbal Constituents: Foundations of Phytochemistry
American Herbal Products Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook
“”You start seeing the set of activities associated with constituents in different plants which allows you to do some substitutions.”
Lisa Ganora
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