Don't Choose Herbs "For" A Diagnosis - Do This Instead

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of gathering more information than just a medical diagnosis when selecting herbs for healing.

When we’re choosing herbs to help someone, knowing their medical diagnosis isn’t enough: we don’t choose herbs for a diagnosis. As herbalists, we actually need more information! A medical diagnosis is a specialized vocabulary which creates a shorthand so that people who already know what it means, how it happens, and how to fix it, can speak more efficiently about (whatever it is). It’s not an objective truth, though: it’s a descriptive label that is useful in a specialized context. Herbalism...

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Host: CommonWealth Holistic Herbalism

Topics covered

• herbalism
• medical diagnosis
• herb selection
• holistic health
• alternative medicine

Keywords

• herbs
• diagnosis
• holistic
• health
• alternative medicine

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