REGISTER HERE: https://www.holisticlivingschool.org/product/natural-nurse-botany-and-botanical-nomenclature-class-2-april-12-2026/

   3 CE Broker Credits are available for Licensed:  Nurses, Midwives, Massag e Therapists, Acupuncturists & Nutritionists when this class is taken individually

This class covers the importance of Latin names when communicating with other herbalists, the Doctrine of Signatures, Identification of Plant Families, and edible, medicinal, and poisonous specific plants within several families.

Tuition: $50

Date:  Sunday, April 12, 2026

Time: 9:30-11:00 am

Location: Live via Zoom online (Here’s how to access your class.)

Level: All Levels

CEUs are available to Massage Therapists, Dietitians, Nurses, Respiratory Care & Midwives in the state of Florida through CE Broker for students who successfully complete the course through attendance and submission of assignments. To add CEU credits to your enrollment, click here. An additional $15 educational credit processing fee will apply.

All registrants will receive the course recording and handouts, with access to materials for one year.

This class can be taken a la carte or sign up for the entire 4-part The Natural Nurse Herbal Certification Course – 2026(18 CEUs are available for the full course). If you’ve already registered for this standalone course and wish to add-on the entire series, click here.

All of our classes, unless otherwise noted, are available and accessible to everyone – whether you are an experienced herbalist, a budding herbalist, or simply herb-curious. Everyone is welcome.

Please review this link for our school’s tuition and cancellation policies.

DESCRIPTION

This class is one of four included in the full Natural Nurse Herbal Certification Course. Students may register for a single class, or for the full four-part series. When you buy the entire series, you save $25 on the total price and have 18 CUEs available. The individual classes are $50 each. Each class has 3 CEUs available, with the Continuing Education fee required for each one, and a total of 12 CEUs when purchased individually. Should you decide you want the full series after trying a single class, that option is available with an add-on fee – click here to add-on the entire series.

Natural Nurse Herbal Certification Course

Class 1 – Basics of Herbal Medicine: Sunday, March 8, 2026 – 9:30 – 11am

Class 2 – Botany & Botanical Nomenclature: Sunday, April 12, 2026 – 9:30 – 11am

Class 3 – Using Herbs for Yourself and Your Family: Sunday, May 10, 2026 – 9:30 – 11am

Class 4 – Feeling the Consciousness of Plants: Sunday, June 14, 2026 – 9:30 – 11am

Full Series (All 4 classes) –Natural Nurse Herbal Certification Course 2026

Assignments can be emailed to the instructor. Capstone Herbal Preparation Project will need to be ‘snail-mailed’ to the instructor. All attendees who complete the full series and submit all assignments will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Florida School of Holistic Living.

Florida School of Holistic Living Certificate available for any attendees who complete the requirements below (Recommended for all interested individuals, as well as natural health professionals.)

To receive CEU’s or a Certificate participants must:

• Attend class(es)*
• Purchase course textbook, The Natural Medicine Chest, by Ellen Kamhi, PhD RN and Eugene Zampieron, ND
• Complete homework assignments

Participants will receive a certificate indicating the level of course work and hours of study completed.

Lesser known usage of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) essential oil:

Featured image credit: By Geoff Derrin – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63755004

Every year, Dr. Zampieron of drznaturally.com leads a tour organized by EcoTours for Cures® to the island of Jamaica. In this video, Dr. Z and the local medicine men showed us how to make herbal salve using various local medicinal plants, beeswax, and shea butter.

Video courtesy of Jack Stanis

Guided by the native Jamaican medicine men, the tour participants gathered the following medicinal herbs for the hands-on workshop.  Click any image to enlarge the view:

Travel with Dr. Eugene R. Zampieron (Dr. Z) and a host of esteemed botanical experts/teachers to the island of

Jamaica,WI on EcoTours for Cures ® The Education Vacation!

When: Spring Break 2022
Dates: Saturday, February 26th – Thursday, March 3rd, 2022

Hike deep into tropical Rainforests…
Swim in majestic waterfalls,
(still unknown to the Tourist traps)
Discover a part of Jamaica, UNTOUCHED by tourism
Funshops on Caribbean EthnoBotany &
Medicinal Herbs, Roots and Natural (ITAL) Foods
Travel with Jamaican Bush doctors &
melt into the pulse of their natural lifestyle & Culture
Moonlit Fire Ceremonies
Night beach cookouts
Escape the cold, nasty winter

…on the Caribbean sea

To view photos of past trips and more information about the tour, visit Our Online Brochure

For terms and conditions of booking, visit here

Phone: ‪(954) 418-2388
Email: naturalalt (at) juno.com

Travel with Dr. Eugene R. Zampieron (Dr. Z), Ellen Kamhi, Ph.D., RN The Natural Nurse and a host of esteemed botanical experts/teachers to the island of

Jamaica,WI on EcoTours for Cures® The Education Vacation!

When: Spring Break 2019
Dates: Saturday, March 9th – Thursday, March 14th

Hike deep into tropical Rainforests…
Swim in majestic waterfalls,
(still unknown to the Tourist traps)
Discover a part of Jamaica, UNTOUCHED by tourism
Funshops on Caribbean EthnoBotany &
Medicinal Herbs, Roots and Natural (ITAL) Foods
Travel with Jamaican Bush doctors &
melt into the pulse of their natural lifestyle & Culture
Moonlit Fire Ceremonies
Night beach cookouts
Escape the cold, nasty winter

…on the Caribbean sea

To view photos of past trips and more information about the tour, visit Our Online Brochure

For terms and conditions of booking, visit here

Phone: 800-829-0918
Email: naturalalt@juno.com

Join Us for the 29th Annual AHG Bioregional Symposium!

Our theme for the 2018 symposium is Bioregional Herbalism and you can earn a certificate in ‘Bioregional Materia Medica in Clinical Practice‘ by attending specific session. Learn more about the Certificate Track here.

Ellen Kamhi PhD, RN, AHG will be presenting: Scientific Validation of Botanical Medicine (feat. The Consciousness of Plants) – on October 28th, 2018 at 1:30 – 3:00  PM

The indigenous traditional use of plants is supported by scientific inquiry. Why does berberine kill bacteria without causing the development of resistant strains? Does silymarin upregulate the P 450 liver enzymes to enhance detoxification? Participants will understand mechanisms of action of how herbs heal, as well as current and past research that investigates the consciousness of plants.

For a full list of symposium speakers, please visit this page

Join The Natural Nurse and Hippocrates. Learn how to use Plant Medicine. We will also have ‘hands on’ projects in the field, that will support interspecies plant human communication and feature gathering and preparing of herbal infusions and smudge sticks to take home. Join the ancient journey!

Image credit: By Steve Evans from Citizen of the World – Australia: Aboriginal Culture 016, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25835392

Join Ellen Kamhi PhD RN for a discussion about the ‘inside story’ of how herbs actually work. We will transverse the indigenous traditional use and delve into the depths of scientific validity. Why does berberine kill bacteria without causing the development of resistant strains? How does Red Yeast Rice interfere with cellular pathways to inhibit Co Q 10? Does silymarin upregulate the P 450 Liver Enzymes to enhance Detoxification? Understand mechanisms of action of how herbs heal , along with possible adverse effects and herb drug interactions. We will also investigate current and past research that investigate the consciousness of plants.

This series offers 18 CEUs for Florida Licensed Massage Therapists, Dietitians, Nurses, Midwives, Acupuncture Physicians, and Nutrition Counselors.

This class, offered by nurse and herbalist Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHG is designed to offer flexibility for beginning or advanced herbal students. Use this series of classes to ignite your inspiration towards better health with practical plant-based tools. Feel free to attend any one class on an individual basis, or all four of the classes in the series.

Join nurse and herbalist Ellen Kamhi for an empowering and enriching journey into basic herbal medicine.  Attend any one of the four workshops as a drop-in course, or attend the entire series for a discount.  Practitioners wishing to receive Continuing Education Units must attend the full series.

Cost: $40.00

Essential vocabulary extracts, tinctures, capsules, infusions, and decoctions, as well as the safety and efficacy of herbal medicines.
This series offers 18 CEUs for Florida Licensed Massage Therapists, Dietitians, Nurses, Midwives, Acupuncture Physicians, and Nutrition Counselors.

This class, offered by nurse and herbalist Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHG is designed to offer flexibility for beginning or advanced herbal students. Use this series of classes to ignite your inspiration towards better health with practical plant-based tools. Feel free to attend any one class on an individual basis, or all four of the classes in the series.

Join nurse and herbalist Ellen Kamhi for an empowering and enriching journey into basic herbal medicine.  Attend any one of the four workshops as a drop-in course, or attend the entire series for a discount.  Practitioners wishing to receive Continuing Education Units must attend the full series.

Students may register for a single class, or for the full four-part series.

Cost: $50.00