Pain is a complex health challenge. To ease pain most folks these days turn to over the counter or prescribed drugs that do little more than temporary assuage pain and in the long term can lead to an increase in pain and other serious health challenges. While most of the pain remedy”s manufactured by the industrial medical complex have their origin in plants, the plants that ease pain in the herbalist’s medicine bag have the capacity to not only soften the hard edge of pain by also resolve the underlying cause of the pain.

During this seminar different types of pain will be explained, methods a herbalist can use to assess a patient’s pain and plants traditionally offered to help ease pain. The plants will be viewed through both a phytotherapy and a traditional herbal lens. Lastly different types of pain remedies will be formulated.