botanical history – The Natural Nurse https://www.naturalnurse.com Your health is in YOUR hands Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:06:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.naturalnurse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cropped-NaturalNurse-512x512-1-32x32.png botanical history – The Natural Nurse https://www.naturalnurse.com 32 32 The Genealogy of Plant Foods with Nathaniel Altman https://www.naturalnurse.com/2026/03/01/the-genealogy-of-plant-foods-with-nathaniel-altman/ https://www.naturalnurse.com/2026/03/01/the-genealogy-of-plant-foods-with-nathaniel-altman/#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:50:24 +0000 https://www.naturalnurse.com/?p=23140 Learn More ...]]>

On today’s show, host Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, RH(AHG), AHN-BC interviewed Nathaniel Altman about his latest book The Genealogy of Plant Foods: The Spiritual, Nutritional, and Medicinal Power of the Foods That Sustain Us – explores the history, migration, and health benefits of over 100 plant foods. It details how ancestral foods like avocados, lentils, and grains have shaped human health, culture, and medicine.

Nathaniel Altman is a Brooklyn-based writer who has authored more than twenty books on diet, alternative healing, metaphysics and relationship. His books include Eating for Life: A Book About Vegetarianism,  and Healing Springs: The Ultimate Guide to Taking the Waters , among many others.   

Nathaniel has appeared on more than 150 podcasts, radio and television programs in the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America, and his articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including Good Housekeeping, Natural Health, Well Being, Free Spirit, Vegetarian Times and USA Today.

To listen to the interview, click the player below. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please use the comment section under this post or contact Ellen Kamhi here.

You may be interested in listening to: The HISTORY OF NATURAL MEDICINE – a Focus on Herbs and Botanicals

 

 

]]> https://www.naturalnurse.com/2026/03/01/the-genealogy-of-plant-foods-with-nathaniel-altman/feed/ 0 The HISTORY OF NATURAL MEDICINE – a Focus on Herbs and Botanicals https://www.naturalnurse.com/2026/02/28/history-of-natural-medicine-herbs-botanicals/ https://www.naturalnurse.com/2026/02/28/history-of-natural-medicine-herbs-botanicals/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:33:52 +0000 https://www.naturalnurse.com/?p=23136 Learn More ...]]>

On today’s show, Ellen Kamhi, The Natural Nurse will be discussing The HISTORY OF NATURAL MEDICINE, with a focus on Herbs and Botanicals.

She will also talk about the Natural Nurse Herbal Certification Course 2026. This is a 4-class series designed to offer flexibility for students from beginner to advanced levels. Become familiar with the basics of herbal medicine including the terminology and various methods. Discover the importance of the botanical names for plants when communicating with herbal practitioners and to ensure accuracy in your own practice. Learn common herbal “first-aid” for colds, flu, ear infections, stomach upsets, and other mild health issues that can be handled at home. And explore ways to integrate plants into your life, soul, and medicine, plus how to decide which remedy is the “right” one.

 

To listen to the interview, click the player below. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please use the comment section under this post or contact Ellen Kamhi here.

If you are interested in learning more about the 2026 Natural Nurse Herbal Certification course, you may want to watch the Q&A video here:

 

 

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Host Dr. Eugene Zampieron, ND, AHG , www.drznaturally.com, interviews botanist Judith Sumner. On todays show, we will discuss Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II – a look at military history from a botanical perspective, and the images say it all: From victory gardens and agriculture to rubber, coal, paper, timber, drugs, and fibers, plant products supplied the wartime materials that played key roles in victory.

Judith specializes in ethnobotany, flowering plants, plant adaptations, and garden history. She has taught extensively both at the college level and at botanical gardens, including the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and the Garden in the Woods, the foremost native plant garden of New England.

Judith graduated from Vassar College and completed graduate studies in systematic botany at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She studied at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and at the British Museum (Natural History) and did extensive field work in the Pacific region on the genus Pittosporum.

She has published monographic studies in the American Journal of Botany, Pollen et Spores, and Allertonia, as well as monographing two families for Flora Vitiensis Nova, the recently published flora of the Fiji Islands. Judith’s book American Household Botany won the American Horticultural Society Book Award. She was awarded the Gertrude B. Foster Award for Excellence in Herbal Literature by the Herb Society of America.

To learn more about Judith, please visit: www.judithsumner.com [includes a link to a recent lecture at Harvard on victory gardens]

To listen to the interview, click the player below. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestion, please use the comment section under this post or contact Ellen Kamhi here.

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