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We invite you to join us for a weekend of education and inspiration at beautiful Blue Ridge Assembly. Here are the symposium details:
Blue Ridge Assembly
The symposium site is nestled on a mountainside surrounded by 1200 forested acres with two rushing mountain streams. Lodging, dining and lectures are all within walking distance. Blue Ridge Assembly is 40 minutes east of Asheville, NC.
Note: Lodging registration is now open. Click here for a housing form, or go to www.blueridgeassembly.org under "events" to register online for lodging. Blue Ridge does not take reservations by phone.The symposium features over 40 presentations on botanical medicine, from advanced clinical training classes to herb walks amongst the amazing plant diversity of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The symposium brochure is now ready! Click here to view. Click here to print a black and white schedule of the weekend.
Keynote Speaker Tieraona Low Dog, MDTieraona Low Dog, MD presents the keynote address, "The Greening of Medicine" on Saturday evening. Dr. Low Dog is an internationally known speaker on topics ranging from the responsible use of herbal medicine and dietary supplements to integrative
approaches in women/s health.
California poppy fields at the Gaia Herb Farm.Preconference Intensive with Tieraona Low Dog, MD.
Title: Integrative Medicine in Primary Care with an Emphasis in Botanicals, GI Health, Mental Health, and Pediatrics
Date: Friday June 4, 2010
Time: 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Place: Gaia Herbs in Brevard, NC
Cost: $99 (includes outdoor buffet lunch at the farm.)
Open only to registered symposium participants
David Winston
Ethnobotanical and Native Plant Field Study
David Winston.
New Location: Blue Ridge Assembly
Time: Friday, June 4, 10 AM- 3 PM.
Cost: $65. Limit 30 participants. (Open to symposium registrants only.)
This event is FULL.
Rosemary GladstarHerbalist and author Rosemary Gladstar presents two lectures and these special events:
*Sunday Morning Plenary Session: Planting the Future ~ Our Role as Herbalists and Stewards of Healing Herbs Rosemary Gladstar
*Sunday 7-8 PM: Green Temple of the Holy Clovers: Gather by the fire in the amphitheater with Cascade Anderson Geller & Rosemary Gladstar.
Mountain view between the columns of Lee Hall.Intensive Workshops are presented during the symposium ($55 each except where noted):
*Women's Health Across the Lifespan-
Tieraona Low Dog, MD
*Field Study- Cascade Anderson Geller
*Irritable Bowel Syndrome- Chanchal Cabrera
*Gaia Herb Farm Tour- Richard Scalzo (no cost- limit 65 participants)
Blue Ridge Assembly Dining RoomHerbal Therapeutics Series (continued from last year).
Specific indications for herbs in the therapeutic category, formula writing and case studies.
No extra cost. Attend all or part of the series.
1. Astringents and Demulcents- Mary Bove, ND
2. Adjuvants- Cascade Anderson Geller
3. Antidepressants & Anxiolytics- David Winston
4. Analgesics & Anodynes- Amanda McQuade Crawford
5. Vulneraries- Cascade Anderson GellerMore information and details:
Symposium registration fee:
$369 - This fee covers all lectures, the keynote address and other group meetings.. Lodging, meals and intensive workshops are extra. (Cancellation fee $75.) There is still time to register!
Register for the symposium now!Housing and meal costs: Rooms at Blue Ridge Assembly range from $176 to $304 total for three nights lodging and all eight meals. Meal packages for commuters are $70. Thursday night lodging is available if you plan to attend either of the events on Friday, June 4.
Lodging registration is now open. Click here for a housing form, or go to www.blueridgeassembly.org under "events" to register online for lodging. Blue Ridge does not take reservations by phone.
Continuing education approvals:Nursing: This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) for 26 possible contact hours, depending on the number of lectures and optional events attended. NCNA is an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Pharmacists: CE credits have been approved for North Carolina pharmacists for 12 hours (approval number NC06010930). (Licensed North Carolina pharmacists only.)
Acupuncturists: Application approved for a maximum of 27 PDA points by NCCAOM (depending on the number of lectures and optional events attended.)Naturopathic Physicians: Approved by OBNE* for 18 possible general hours, of which 3 can be pharmacy (for the intensive on IBS with Chanchal Cabrera). Another 6 hours of general credit is available for Tieraona Low Dog's intensive on Friday June 4.
*Oregon Board of Naturopathic ExaminersOthers: A certificate of attendance is available for all who request it.
Exhibit Hall: The expanded exhibit area in the Pavilion offers booth space, food and medicine-making demonstrations, music, herbal food exhibits and refreshments. Proceeds benefit United Plant Savers. Please email us if you are interested in exhibiting.
Tours of Mountain Gardens: In conjunction with the symposium, Joe Hollis will give free tours of Mountain Gardens on Friday, June 4. Enjoy one of the largest collections of medicinal herbs in the eastern U.S. the herb nursery, dispensatory, apothecary and 'self-help health center'. The tour will run continually from 10 AM. to 4 PM; you can arrive any time and join the tour in progress. For more information and directions: www.mountaingardensherbs.com
If you have any special needs for the symposium, please let us know at the time of registration as we will gladly make reasonable effort to accommodate disabilities.
Other pages of interest:
Medicines from the Earth, 2010
Speakers and Topics
(Subject to minor changes and additions.)Teresa Boardwine
1. Immune Potentiating Herbs and Foods (Lecture)
2. Kitchen Medicine: Immune Potentiating Foods (Demonstration)
3. Wild Foods Cooking with Vickie Shufer (Demonstration)
Mary Bove, ND
1. The Super Fruits and their Anti-oxidant and Healing Potential – Sea Buckthorn, Acai, Black Elderberry and Pomegranate
2. Herbal Therapeutics 2: Therapeutic Applications of Astringents and Demulcents.
3. Botanical Medicines for Childhood Respiratory Infections
4. Diagnostics for Evaluation and Treatment of Adrenal Function
Amanda McQuade Crawford
1. Inflammation and Chronic Heart Disease: Botanical Protocols for Lowering Inflammatory Markers
2. Herbal Therapeutics 1: Specific Indications and Therapeutic Uses for Analgesics and Anodynes (as they apply to treatment of muscle pain, nerve pain, headaches and migraines)
3. Testosterone and Human Growth Hormone: Maintaining Healthy Levels during the Elder Years
Chanchal Cabrera
1. Botanical and Naturopathic Techniques for Lymphatic Drainage
2. Horticulture Therapy – Herbal Medicine in the Garden
3. Intensive: Therapeutic Techniques for the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Richo Cech
1. Botanizing Zanzibar
2. Harvesting and Processing of Medicinal Herbs and Seeds (demo)
Doug Elliott
Herb Walks
Cascade Anderson Geller
1. Herbal Theraputics 3: Specific Indications and Therapeutic Uses of some Warming & Stimulating Adjuvant Herbs
2. Preparing a Digestive Tonic with Adjuvants: Medicine Making Demonstration
3. Intensive: Field Study of Appalachian Plants
4. Green Temple of the Holy Clovers w. Rosemary Gladstar
5. Herbal Therapeutics 5: Vulneraries (Wound Healing Herbs)
Rosemary Gladstar
1. Sunday Morning: Planting the Future ~ Our Role as Herbalists and Stewards of Healing Herbs
2. Medicine can be a Ball (Medicine Making Demonstration)
3. Traveler’s Herbal First Aide ~ An Herbal Gypsy on the Road
4. Green Temple of the Holy Clovers w. Cascade Anderson Geller
Tori Hudson, ND
1. Women’s Health Botanical Update
2. Botanicals for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
3. Interstitial Cystitis: Botanical Therapies
Tieraona Low Dog, MD
1. Pre-conference Intensive (at Gaia Herbs on Friday June 4): Integrative Medicine in Primary Care with an Emphasis in Botanicals, GI Health, Mental Health, and Pediatrics
2. Intensive: Women’s Health Across the Lifespan
3. Saturday Evening 8- 9:30 PM: Keynote: The Greening of Medicine
CoreyPine Shane
1. Plant Walk--Western Energetics of Appalachian Herbs
Vickie Shufer
1. Wild Foods Walk
2. Wild Foods Cooking (Demonstration w. Teresa Boardwine)
Jill Stansbury, ND
1. Thyroid Hormones and their Synergistic Influences on the Reproductive System.
2. Herbs of the Amazon
3. A Review of Enzyme Systems that Affect Hormonal Metabolism and their Herbal Effectors
4. Dietary and Herbal Influences on Reproductive Gene Expression
Roy Upton
1. Bush Medicine of the Caribbean: An exploration of the healing properties of herbs of the United States Virgin Islands.
2. Herbal Medicine for Insomnia
3. How FDA Good Manufacturing Practices Affect the Community Herbalist
Register for the symposium now!
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