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Kathy Abascal BS, JD, RH(AHG) lives on Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest. She has a degree in neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley, a juris doctor from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and studied botanical medicine with Michael Moore at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine in Albuquerque, NM and Bisbee, AZ. She is a practicing clinical herbalist, a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, and enjoys teaching botanical medicine.
Dr. Abascal is the co-author of Clinical Botanical Medicine
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2003), a highly regarded text. She writes regularly
for journals such as Alternative and Complementary Therapies, Natural
Pharmacy, and HerbalGram. Dr. Abascal is also the Executive Director
of the Botanical Medicine Academy, an organization that, in collaboration
with the American Herbalists Guild, is creating a voluntary certification
for health care practitioners who use botanical medicines in their practice.
She is also the Chair of the Advisory Board for the North American College
of Phytotherapy.
James Duke, PhD is a recognized authority on medicinal herbs and plants and author of The Green Pharmacy. Dr. Duke teaches about botanicals and maintains one of the most frequently consulted databases on medicinal plants. He has a spectacular herb garden where medicinal plants are grown in beds organized by the diseases they are used to treat.
Eric Yarnell, ND, RH is a licensed naturopathic physician and registered herbalist (professional member) of the American Herbalists Guild. After graduating from Bastyr University (Seattle, WA) in 1996 he completed a two year residency with master herbalist and physician Silena Heron, ND in Sedona, AZ. He is a founding member and current president of the Botanical Medicine Academy (Seattle, WA), a specialty board for practitioners who use herbs. Dr. Yarnell served as chair of the department of botanical medicine at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (Tempe, AZ) where he also taught gastroenterology, urology/men's health, and pulmonology/sleep medicine. He eventually moved to Oregon to practice and write full time. There he also served as senior editor of the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine for an issue, having served as letters editor for several issues.
Currently Dr. Yarnell is an adjunct professor in the botanical medicine department at Bastyr University. He is a co-founder and president of Healing Mountain Publishing, Inc., a publisher of natural medicine textbooks for practitioners. He is also vice president of Heron Botanicals, Inc. an herbal pharmacy providing hand-crafted, whole plant extracts exclusively to health care providers or on prescription. He is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild.
Dr. Yarnell is author of numerous texts and articles including
Naturopathic Gastroenterology and Naturopathic Urology and Men's
Health (both by Healing Mountain Publishing) and co-author of Clinical
Botanical Medicine (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.) the A-Z Guide to Drug-Herb-Vitamin
Interactions (Prima Publishing). He has lectured widely in the US as
well as in Puerto Rico and Korea.
Dr. Yarnell's Webpage