Blythe Adams

Our Grandmother’s used their native plants, ate nourishing weeds and mushrooms in the spring and healed their selves with plant medicine when they were sick. Native Plants provided their only medicine. Blythe at Community Herbalist is carrying this knowledge forward. Blythe completed a three year clinical internship program at the Ohlone School for Herbal Studies in Berkeley, California in 2006 , a Ten...

Autumn Summers is a plant geek. Inspired by the plants since childhood she has studied herbalism and ethnobotany for the last 20 years with a kinship for the plants, seaweeds and mushrooms of Northern California. She has guest hosted KPFA’s Herbal Highway, co-organized free community herb festivals and worked at various herbal businesses including Rosemary’s Garden, Simplers Botanical and KW Botanicals....

Daniel Burton Ohlone Center of Herbal Studies Therapeutic Program May 13, 2008 Introduction Attention­ Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), also known by its older name, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is distinctly a phenomenon of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.  At no previous time in history have so many children been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and placed...

Dori Midnight   Introduction This paper will cover basic herbal and nutritional support for transgender and gendervariant folks specifically on the transmasculine spectrum. Historically, transpeoples’ accessto health care is limited for multiple reasons and information regarding the long term sideeffects of hormone therapy is miniscule, so it is profound to be able to support the health and well...

Pathology report Lisa Beard Ohlone Center 11/04/08   The female reproductive system and its menstrual cycle is often studied and explained in the domain of the endocrine system.  As we know in holistic medicine, body systems are fundamentally interrelated.  In my own journey of healing extreme intestinal discomfort at the time of menses, it has become important to look at the interrelationship...

Michelle Steinberg Spring 2008 Ohlone Center   Hypothyroidism   The Thyroid Gland: Anatomy & Physiology The thyroid gland is butterfly shaped and sits on the trachea, in the anterior neck. It is comprised of two lobes connected in the middle by an isthmus. Inside, the gland is made up of many hollow follicles, whose epithelial cell walls (also known as follicle cells) surround a...