A Free Article by Paul Bergner
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As clinical herbalists or nutritionists, we base our practice on a constantly accumulating and evolving body of facts, drawn from a mosaic of widely varied sources of information. We learn from teacher/mentors, from our own experience, from colleagues and classmates, from a variety of traditions, from intuition and instinct, and in the modern era, from information of institutional Science. Today, the mantra of the medical establishment, and in many cases of the “green allopaths” of the herbal, naturopathic, and functional medicine worlds, is “evidence based medicine.” But this model rejects most of the mosaic evidence, and purports that the only useful piece of data to guide our practice must come from complex scientific investigations. In reality, evidence from the scientific literature is the least reliable piece of the larger mosaic of clinical experience.
 
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