Herban Legends and Clinical Pearls
120 minutes  
 
An Herban Legend is a persistent, widely and firmly held belief about a plant and its medicinal effects which is not true. It is passed from textbook to textbook, and from teacher to student and perpetuated across generations based on students’ faith in their teachers, their textbooks, and their misinterpretation of science, tradition, or subjective experience. Eventually “everyone knows” that they are true and they are part of standard practice. At the same time, many of these herbs, of no or little use for the condition they are famous, and in fact Clinical Pearls with reliable and effect uses not typically included in the Legend. In this presentation we cover Legends and Pearls for Lomatium, Oplopanax (Devils Club), Lobelia, Ginkgo, Serenoa (Saw Palmetto), Tanacetum (Feverfew), Coriandrum (Cilantro), Echinacea, Hydrastis (Goldenseal), Dioscorea (Wild Yam), Juniperus.
 
Materials
The audio lecture
Lecture slides
Supplemental Readings on Lomatium and Oplopanax
 
This lecture is offered as Continuing Education by the NAIMH but has not been pre-approved for CE credits by any professional board.
 
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