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.

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 Energy and Vibrational Medicine with Dr. Zampieron ND & Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN

Free and Open to All

Summer Beach Herb Walk

Join Ellen Kamhi Ph.D., RN, AHG-RH, AHN-BC she guides you through the beach and show you how to identify various wild edible and medicinal plants in this Long Island, NY park.

Date: Thursday, June 24, 2021, at 6 PM

BEACH WALK – MEDICINAL WILD HERBS (weather permitting)
Meet Under the Gazebo at Teddy Roosevelt Beach (enter beach at end of Larrabee Ave, Oyster Bay, NY)

For more information or in case you are lost on the way to the location, please call 631-903-2781

To register: https://www.restorationfarm.com/herbworkshops

This is a two-part event. First, participants walk the gardens and fields, learning about and gathering wild medicinal herbs. Then, participants assemble in the Tin House and process the herbs into simple tinctures, salves, and smudge sticks. Led by Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHG, AHN-BC, and by Dr. Eugene Zampieron, ND.
Participants should bring a bag to gather the herbs and 2-3 small jars for transporting home their own tinctures and skin salve.

Fee: $45 in advance until July 10, 2020. $50 at the door.

Herb Package Discount

Sign up for both herb events (June 13th identification walk and July 12th walk and workshop), and receive $5 off total.

If you prefer to register by mail, you can download the form here. Print and complete the form, mail it with your check to the address listed.

If you have any questions, please call 800-829-0918

To watch a preview of the herbal medicine making workshop, please click the video link below:

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Free and Open to All

Mid Summer Beach Herb Walk

Date: Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 6 PM

Nice weather:

BEACH WALK – MEDICINAL WILD HERBS (weather permitting)
Meet Under the Gazebo at Teddy Roosevelt Beach (enter beach at end of Larrabee Ave, Oyster Bay, NY)

Inclement Weather:

Meet at Oyster Bay- East Norwich Library – 89 E Main St, Oyster Bay, NY 11771

For more information, call 800-829-0918 or email Angus Towse – AHG LI Chapter President longisland.ahg@gmail.com

Lost? Call 631-903-2781

Ellen Kamhi PhD, RN, interviews herbalist, Heather Houskeeper about edible and medicinal plants that are abound along the trail system at Finger Lake in upstate New York.

Heather Houskeeper is a Certified Herbalist, Long-Distance Hiker and author. Her second book in the Botanical Hiker Series is A Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Finger Lakes Trail System.

She has thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, North Carolina’s Mountains to Sea Trail twice, and was the first person documented to hike New York’s 1000 mile Finger Lakes Trail System in one continuous trek. When not woods rambling or pulling back the petals on a botanical find, she educates and guides others into the natural world through plant walks and workshops.

Learn more about Heather at www.thebotanicalhiker.blogspot.com
Follow her on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/thebotanicalhiker

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.

Bring a basket & a pair of scissors, a camera phone (optional) and wear comfortable shoes.

$10 Suggested Donation

Location:

Private Home in East Setauket, Long Island NY (directions will be provided upon completion of registration)

To register email: naturalalt (at) juno.com or call 800-829-0918

Spring time has just arrived and the grass as well as the weeds will start their new cycle. One type of weeds that people thought as pesky and difficult to eradicate is Dandelion. After you learn about the nutritional values and health benefits of this plant, you will feel fortunate to be surrounded by it.  View the following video from AMinuteSmarter when they interviewed Ellen Kamhi about Dandelions:

About harvesting dandelions and other edible / medicinal herbs

If you want to learn more about how to harvest wild edible plants and herbs, view this presentation about Medicinal Herbs Collection

The quality and efficacy of Traditional Herbal Medicine can be influenced by correct collection of Raw Materials. In this presentation prepared by Dr. Eugene Zampieron ND, we discuss collection details to assure the best quality and efficacy of traditional herbal remedies made at home. In addition, we described methods of medicinal herbs  preparations such as Tinctures, Extracts, Poultices, Salves and so on.

Join us on this 5th herb walk with: Bill Barash, Horticulturist and Dr. Ellen Kamhi,”The Natural Nurse.” We encountered some Red Clover and had some interesting fun discussions about this versatile plant we stumbled upon!