.Today, Ellen Kamhi PhD RN interviewed Mimi Prunella Hernandez Herbalist and Author about her newly published book: National Geographic Herbal.

About Mimi Hernandez

Mimi Prunella Hernandez is an herbalist and author of the National Geographic Herbal. With her wealth of knowledge, unwavering dedication, and genuine love for all things herbal, she has made a significant impact in the field of herbal medicine. For over a decade, Mimi has served as the executive director of the American Herbalists Guild, where she has worked tirelessly to ensure that herbalists have a strong professional community to support their work. In 2023, Mimi received a Botanical Excellence Award from the American Botanical Council, a prestigious honor that recognizes her as a Mark Blumenthal Herbal Community Builder. Mimi Prunella Hernandez, M.S., R.H. (AHG), is a clinical herbalist with a master’s degree in herbal medicine. As a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, she has mentored students in clinical and community herbalism through various educational platforms. Mimi is known for her ability to explain complex information in a relatable way, which has gained her a dedicated following. Her warm and approachable nature has made her a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. 

Mimi’s volunteer work inspires plant sanctuary dreamers. She not only strives to ensures the continued availability of native and medicinal plants but also educates others about their importance and traditional uses. Mimi’s herbal roots are inspired by her Colombian and Mexican Grandmothers via a Latin American Folk Herbalism and Curanderismo lineage. While Mimi finds immense joy in practicing kitchen herbalism, she finds tremendous fulfillment delivering herbal house calls. She brings a basket filled with homemade nourishing remedies, using the herbs she grows in her garden to provide natural remedies to those in need. 

National Geographic Herbal

It is an herbal journey where we learn the bodily sensations of herbs interaction. Then Mimi taught us how to experience herbs in the kitchen and apothecary to nourish our body. It is also an herbal path from the cultivated herbs, wild plants in the community, and beyond the international borders.

Contact:

https://theponderland.com

mimi@herbalforager.com

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The term “BIOFILM” refers to a complex community of microbes that organize on surfaces inside the human body! Biofilm is the basis of a variety of sticky coatings, including Dental Plaque, surfaces inside the aortic valve, on implanted devices such as urinary catheters, and on mucosa on all body interface surfaces. They can be a major link to a variety of health challenges.

The BIOFILM communal organisms possess a complex intra-species communication system that allows them to organize into a veritable fortress and develop highly advanced protective mechanisms that make them inaccessible and indestructible by pharmaceutical antibiotics leading to ever more advanced resistant strains.

A variety of natural foods and botanicals can help to penetrate the biofilm layer, allowing for disruption and cleansing of the affected area. These include:

• garlic,
• propolis,
• honey,
• cranberry,
• turmeric,
• cinnamon,
• berberine, and
• Black Seed oil.

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Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG). The Natural Nurse®, is an advanced Nurse Herbalist for over 50 years. She mentors those who are interested in becoming a Registered Herbalist (RH) and is a Nutraceutical Regulatory Specialist ( Label, DSHEA, GMP) supporting companies who wish to bring natural products to market.

She offers CE Education Programs primarily through Holistic Living School.

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On this edition of the Natural Nurse and  Dr. Z,  the hosts of the program teamed up and discussed  Natural remedies for summer ailments.

As we enjoy the beautiful weather and the coming summer solstice energy, many of us love spending time outside enjoying the Great Outdoors.

But of course, being outdoors comes with its own share of seasonal issues…. such as sunburn, heat exhaustion, hay-fever /allergies, bug bites, Lyme disease, poison ivy, food poisoning, aches and pains /strains and sprains from yard work or hiking, and a host of other maladies.

But thankfully, Mother Nature has given us a natural medicine chest full of incredible non-toxic remedies to assist you and your loved ones with many of these conditions.

 Dr. Eugene Zampieron ND,  a licensed naturopathic physician and herbalist, and Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®,  focused on homeopathic remedies and other natural approaches to keep you healthy, safe and enjoying the great outdoors during this joyful, sunny season. So please take a listen.

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

You may also be interested in listening to Poison Ivy: Friend or Foe?. You can consult with Dr. Eugene Zampieron ND or Ellen Kamhi PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH (AHG)

Co-host Dr. Eugene Zampieron, ND, www.drznaturally.com, interviews Steven Horne RH(AHG) about his latest book Strategies for Health

About Steven Horne

Steven Horne, Rh(AHG)  is an internationally recognized herbalist, iridologist, and natural healer. A professional member and past-president of the American Herbalists Guild and a Certified Comprehensive Iridology Instructor, Steven’s passion for helping people has lead him to write and teach about natural health for over 40 years. He is the co-author of Modern Herbal Dispensary, a popular book on herbal medicine-making, and the author of Strategies for Health, a compressive guide to natural healing.

About Strategies for Health

This book is the result of the healing journey that Steven started fifty years ago when he failed to find answers to his own chronic respiratory problems. After years of getting worse with allopathic treatments, Steven discovered a different approach. He started studying and applying the use of herbs, diet, and other natural modalities. He went from being a sickly teenager, to a healthy young adult.

He wrote Strategies for Health to share this knowledge so that anyone who is struggling with poor health can move beyond symptomatic relief and start learning how to achieve lasting health.

To get better results this book teaches you to find and adopt strategies to correct the underlying root causes of disease, such as nutritional deficiencies, exposure to toxins, unresolved stress, and poor lifestyle habits. Because when you look beyond treating disease symptoms and correct these root causes the body returns to its natural state—health.

This is the approach that Steven has taken to successfully care for himself and his family. It has also helped him transform the lives of his clients and teach hundreds of successful natural health consultants to do the same. 

www.stevenhorne.com

www.treelite.com

www.modernherbalmedicine.com

 Contact: Visit my website stevenhorne.com and sign up for my free herbal newsletter

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In this edition, The Natural Nurse (Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG) and co-host Dr. Z (Eugene Zampieron, ND) present Herbs from the Shaman’s Garden – Jamaican and Island Herbs. Many tropical plants are used for healing throughout the world. They will also discuss travel adventures offered by www.EcoToursforCures.com and other Herbal Healing information discussed in their book: THE NATURAL MEDICINE CHEST.

BACKGROUND

In the early 1970s after studying science and nursing at RUTGERS and Cornell University, Dr Ellen Kamhi went on a spiritual quest to delve into the healing power of indigenous cultures which took her to many areas of the world. She spent time in Spain in the Pyrenees Mountains with gypsy people and studied Flamenco dancing, and spent two years under the tutelage of Sonia, a curandera, in southern Mexico. During her sojourns with Sonia, she learned about the energetic understanding of plants.

Other trips have taken Ellen to Costa Rica, where she interacted with the country people who regularly use herbs in daily life, and into the bush country of Florida.

Dr Eugene Zampieron, ND (DrZ) has also been scanning the remote hills, mountains and rainforest of the tropics for decades, uncovering the miraculous powers of the indigenous people who tap the Ancient Forest and Bush as a resource for Herbal cures.

As a young biology student, DrZ traveled with his classmates to the remote regions of the island of Jamaica in St Mary Parish. There he met and befriended a Maroon Elder and Medicine Man Named Lloyd Jamba Scott. After spending much time in Jamaica returning again and again, DrZ fell in love with Jamaican music roots and culture.

While in Jamaica pursuing a graduate-level research course over winter recess, DrZ fell ill with a terrible case of dysentery. He tried mainstream medicine, which created a myriad of side effects without helping his condition.

Feeling weak and depleted, DrZ approached Jamba and one of his Elder Bush doctors, Pop a Top, for help and health advice. DrZ traveled daily with Pop-A- top into the rainforest to pick herbs in a secret matter and make the decoction. For 3 days, he received tea made from ferns, allspice, guava, seagrape, cerasee and many other Secret Maroon herbs. The tea worked where mainstream medicine didn’t, which piqued DrZ’s interest in plant medicine.

Rekindling his interest in herbal medicine, DrZ changed the course of his life and pursued the path of the Healer within himself, something that was instilled a long time ago but was repressed because of the loss of faith in conventional medicine. He left Marine Science and began to read all he could about the subject of ethnobotany, the cultural, traditional and spiritual aspects of how people use plants for healing,food,and in their daily lives.

He asked Jamba if he could become his apprentice, an outsider wanting to learn the mystical ways of The Maroons.

After graduating from Naturopathic Medical School with his doctorate, the rainforest and the Bush country of Jamaica became the ideal place for DrZ, a modern medicine man, to study with Jamba, documenting these experiences on film and taped interviews with Jamba.

He and Dr Kamhi formed www.EcoToursforCures.com

https://www.facebook.com/ecotoursforcuresjamaica
to bring scores of people over the last 30 years to Jamaica to study the rainforest herbs.

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This time Anne Louise Gittleman, the First Lady of Nutrition interviewed Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, RH(AHG), AHN-BC aka ‘The Natural Nurse’ for an enlightening discussion on the power of herbal healing especially during Covid-19 times! 

Ann Louise and Ellen have known each other for over 30 years and discussed the providential events that led Ellen into traditional herbal remedies and their amazing efficacy from helping to heal back injuries to their powerful anti-viral properties. Ellen has traveled to indigenous people groups from all over the world to document what they have been doing for thousands of years traditionally to heal injuries and address diseases. Some examples Ellen highlighted during the interview are herbs such as Echinacea, Elderberry, homeopathy remedies such as Oscillococcinum, and Castor Oil pack.

Who is Ann Louise Gittleman?

Ann Louise, The First Lady of Nutrition, is a New York Times Best selling author of over 35 books, including  Radical Longevity — available nationwide. As a nutritional visionary and health pioneer, she has fearlessly stood on the front lines of diet and detox, the environment, and women’s health. A Columbia University graduate, Gittleman has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Nutritionists in the country by Self Magazine. In addition, she received the American Medical Writers Association award for excellence and the Humanitarian Award from the Cancer Control Society.

She continues to break new ground in functional medicine. Ann Louise is ready to share how she built her brand from the ground up and how to stay relevant in the industry for more than four decades.

Contact:
website: www.annelouise.com   and
Facebook: facebook.com/annlouisegittleman

In this edition, Dr. Z (Eugene Zampieron, ND) and The Natural Nurse (Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG) about the common issue facing aging men – Prostate problems.

So many men develop prostate issues as they age; in fact it’s one of the most common reasons for why men seek out Medical attention, as it effects urine flow, sleep, sex life and can even cause life-threatening kidney infections and kidney stones.  

Conventional doctors just focus on  drugs that block  hormonal  and spasmodic  aspects of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), but new research shows that many times BPH should be treated like rheumatoid arthritis and has inflammatory ,autoimmune,toxic, mineral deficiencies, and gut related components to its pathophysiology.

Dr. Z has developed Cutting Edge lab workups and treatment protocols which involve both herbal medicines from yesteryear, as used by the eclectic physician at the turn of the 20th century, detoxification strategies, mineral balancing techniques as well as new approaches to modulating the inflammatory cytokines and kinases involved in BPH ; he has helped hundreds of men using his program.

Dr. Kamhi has spent a large part of her career exploring and understanding these energetic systems of medicine and will share her expertise on the history and philosophy of energy healing, the various types, and even some devices available to assist practitioners.

Dr. Kamhi and Dr. Zampieron have been natural health practitioners for decades, and are the Hosts of The Natural Nurse and Dr. Z radio show at NPR. and founders of Natural Alternatives Education Multimedia.

About Dr. Zampieron

Dr. Eugene Zampieron, ND. RH(AHG), also known as Dr. Z, is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, licensed by the board of Naturopathic Medical Examiners in Connecticut as a Naturopathic Physician. He is also a professional registered herbalist,  ethnobotanical researcher,  and a professor teaching Urology  and Men’s Health at the University of Bridgeport College of naturopathic medicine.

Contact: www.drznaturally.com

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Herbal Phytochemistry Research was the topic when Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, AHG-RH, AHN-BC interviewed Dr. Kevin Spelman

About Dr. Spelman

Dr. Kevin Spelman is a molecular biologist, phytochemist, clinician and herbalist who has worked with medicinal plants in the field, in the clinic, and in research models including clinical human trials and pre-clinical models. He has practiced phytotherapy at several clinics and was a co-founder of the first full accredited Master of Science degree in Clinical Herbal Medicine. 

As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute on Aging, he researched the molecular biology of brain and ovarian cancer. He predicted and demonstrated novel phytocannabinoid ligands from Zanthoxylum spp. Additionally, Dr. Spelman was a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the EU researching medicinal plants against malaria. His doctoral work connected metabolic and immunological function and elucidated a novel target for Echinacea spp.

Dr. Spelman has been an editor, reviewer and contributed to the knowledge base in Integrative Medicine with publications in JPBA, Phytother Res, Toxicology, J Chromatogr B, Anal Biochem, Int Immunopharmacol, Planta Medica, etc. Dr. Spelman also publishes an audio science journal The Spelman Report: PhytoPharmacology Review highlighting clinically relevant research on natural products. He also runs Health, Education & Research a consulting company for the natural products and cannabis industry.

Website: phytochemks.com
e. phytochemks@gmail.com https://www.thespelmanreport.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSpelmanReport/

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Teaching children about herbs is a good starting point when you want to educate your children about healthy living naturally. Today, Ellen Kamhi PhD RN interviewed Kristine Brown on how to achieve that.

About Kristine Brown

Kristine Brown is a registered herbalist (RH) with the American Herbalists Guild (AHG). Kristine has a passion of teaching children about herbs.She is the creator, writer, and illustrator of Herbal Roots zine, a monthly online publication that teaches kids about herbs. Kristine features one herb at a time through a variety of games, stories, songs, puzzles, mazes, crafts, recipes, and coloring pages. She helps parents who want to teach their children about the medicinal use of herbs by giving them the tools they need to accomplish that goal. Kristine offers courses that parents can take over a one year period to help parents focus on a group of herbs each year. Kristine is also the author of Herbalism at Home: 125 Recipes for Everyday Health. 
 
Additionally, Kristine was the kid’s camp coordinator for the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference from 2012 – 2015 and for the Green Gathering in 2018. Along with Leslie Alexander, Kristine has run the Kid’s Herbal Activity Hub for the AHG Symposium since 2015. She has taught kid’s classes at the Montana Herb Gathering, and the Great Lakes Herb Faire. She has also hosted Herbal Sprouts camps out of her home for local children. 

Contact: http://www.herbalrootszine.com

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