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jenett ([personal profile] jenett) wrote in [personal profile] the_rck 2009-01-03 02:57 am (UTC)

It's tricky, because there's no standard training - in my case, I'd known her through the Pagan community casually for several years, and I knew a number of other people who'd been to her (and who a) had found it helpful and b) were not dead or otherwise injured by it.)

What I'd look for (and this may be tricky for you, I admit) is a really well stocked natural foods store or herb store (i.e. place that sells lots of dried herbs and related stuff, not just the 40-50 most common ones, but up in the hundreds). And then ask them for recommendations, and ask about training.

The other option would be to see if you can find someone who's trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine - which does have a more useful structure in the US as far as who uses the name, as I understand it. Somewhat different set of approaches, and different herbs in some cases, but the same basic concept of looking at holistic balance and imbalance in the body.

Liz, who I see, is definitely very careful about med interactions (far beyond the point most people might be: whenever we go through stuff in class, she's careful to mention the major interactions to us, even though they're also prominently listed on the jars as well.) Her training is through a distance program, ongoing training with a number of local herbalists, and she did some Traditional Chinese Medicine training a few years ago.

The lung thing doesn't strike me at all weird - I don't quite get that, but I do get some similar stuff that is weird by allopathic standards, but that keeps getting mentioned in my herbalism classes, so I go "Oh, *duh*".

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