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AHPA Update

AHPA-ABC HerbWalk at Expo East

The AHPA-ABC 2018 HerbWalk at Expo East features a renowned faculty of herbalists who will lead participants on a guided tour of the late James (Jim) Duke's Green Farmacy Garden. Herbalists will teach attendees about culinary and medicinal herbs and their uses from a sanctuary of approximately 300 native and non-native species of plants that have been used traditionally and/or researched for medicinal purposes. Hearing about the various herbs from the experts will make this event one of the highlights of your Expo East visit.

Sign up for the HerbWalk when you register for Expo East.



Event Details

  • Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2018
  • Time: 1:00-5:00 PM (Bus departs at 1:00 and returns at 5:00)
  • Cost: $60 (Not included with Expo East Super Pass)
  • Location: Jim Duke's Green Farmacy Garden
    (Bus departs from Baltimore Convention Center Charles Street Lobby)

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Planetary Herbal

 

Meet the Herbalists

Roy Upton, RH, DipAyu – Trained in Ayurvedic, Western, and Traditional Chinese herbalism, Roy has been working professionally as an herbalist for more than 30 years. He is the executive director and editor of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP), an organization dedicated to the development of quality control standards for botanical medicines. Roy is former president and vice-president of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG), director of Planetary Herbals, a member of the Standards Committee of the American Herbal Products Association, and serves on advisory committees of American Botanical Council, AOAC International, NSF International, and the Lloyd Library and Museum.

Erin Smith – A clinical herbalist and ethnobotanist and has been working with medicinal plants for over 25 years. Bringing together her passion for plants and cultures, she received her masters of science in ethnobotany with distinction from the University of Kent in Canterbury, where her thesis focused on women’s knowledge of traditional medicine in Morocco. For 10 years, Smith worked internationally with indigenous communities on various issues surrounding traditional medicine, natural resource management, community-based conservation, and traditional knowledge. She has taught internationally on herbal medicine, ethnobotany, and the human/nature relationship for 15 years and has spent more than 12 years living and working abroad in more than 20 countries. Smith currently oversees education and sustainability at WishGarden Herbs in Colorado as their education and sustainability manager and consults and teaches internationally on herbal medicine and ethnobotany. She is the creator of Plant-Passionate LivingTM, an interactive program for greater health and vitality through a deeper relationship with plants.

David Winston RH (AHG) – An internationally known lecturer, author and ethnobotanist, is the founder of Herbalist & Alchemist. For almost 50 years, Winston has been studying, practicing, teaching and researching Chinese, Southeastern and Western/Eclectic Herbal traditions. His world-renowned two-year herbal studies program, the David Winston Center for Herbal Studies, has been educating Herbalists, Physicians, Nurses, Naturopathic Physicians, Veterinarians, and Nutritionists in the art and science of clinical herbal medicine since 1980. Winston has been on the Review Committee of the Botanical Safety Handbook, a resource the entire botanical industry, from manufacturers to researchers, relies upon. He is the clinical herbal consultant to hundreds of prominent physicians (MDs, NDs, DOs, DCs) throughout the US, Canada and Europe, and has authored hundreds of articles and a number of books on herbs.

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