22SW11 - Biophilia - How participating in the lives of the plants that grow around you can inform your Clinical Practice 2016 Medicines from the Earth Herb Symposium widely held belief about a

widely held belief about a plant and its medicinal effects which is not true

black elderberry

Stillingia (queen's root)

This talk begins by presenting botanical therapies for amenorrhea (absence of menstruation)

policosanol

22SW11 - Biophilia - How participating in the lives of the plants that grow around you can inform your Clinical Practice 2016 Medicines from the Earth Herb Symposium widely held belief about aSpeaker: Isla Burgess, Medical Herbalist. "I believe that knowing the plants that grow around you well is a Conservation and Sustainable action. I also believe that knowing a few plants really well is more efficacious clinically than knowing a little about a much larger Materia Medica. When we live among our local plants, watch daily their growth pattern and responses, we know just how much we can gather in the current year. We also know how different