David Winston RH (AHG) (born 1956) is an American herbalist and ethnobotanist. He has been in practice and teaching since 1977 and has written several books on the subject. Winston is a founding/professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, and is a founding advisory board member of United Plant Savers. He serves as visiting faculty at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (formally Tai Sophia Institute). He is the founder and dean of the Center for Herbal Studies.
Biography
David Winston was born in 1956, and started experimenting with plants in the late 1960s by ingesting them and observing their effects. By age 17 he was leading herb walks and teaching about herbs.
Winston is a founding and professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, for which he has served four terms as board member. He is a founding advisory board member of United Plant Savers. He founded and is the dean of the Center for Herbal Studies in Broadway, Warren County, New Jersey. It sponsors classes also in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Herbal Therapeutics Research Library
David Winston has one of the largest private libraries of botanical medicine in the United States, with holdings of more than 8,000 books and over 12,000 articles on file. The holdings relate to eclectic and Thomsonian Medicine, physiomedicalism, the history of medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacy, pharmocognosy, poisonous plants, mycology, botany and economic botany. The HTRL also has substantial holdings in Southeastern Native American ethnology, Southeastern material culture and ethno-musicology.
Winston also operates an antiquarian book company, Herbalist and Alchemist Books. It deals exclusively with herbal and medical books.
Herbal manufacturing
Winston founded Herbalist and Alchemist, an herbal tincture firm known for spagyric alchemical processing of herbs. The alchemically processed herbs have mineral constituents reduced to ash from the marc added back after filtration. Herbalist and Alchemist does not standardize their herbal products.
Winston notes that different companies use different markers, or different levels of the same markers, or different methods of testing for marker compounds. When different compounds are chosen as "active ingredients" for different herbs, he says, "there is a chance that suppliers will get a substandard batch (low on the chemical markers) and mix it with a batch higher in the desired marker to compensate for the difference."
Teaching
Over the last three decades, Winston has lectured widely at major herbalist conferences, and given classes at the Blue Ridge School. He has also lectured at such institutions as the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) in York, England; Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington; the University of Medicine & Dentistry (UMDNJ) in Newark, New Jersey; George Washington University Medical School in Washington, DC; Dominion Herbal College in Vancouver, BC; and the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona. He is among the "distinguished lecturers and visiting faculty" in the M.S. in Herbal Medicine program at the Tai Sophia Institute, an accredited graduate school in integrative medicine in Laurel, Maryland.
His company, Herbal Therapeutics Inc., runs his library, his consulting entity and school. The David Winston Center for Herbal Studies trains herbalists and medical personnel in the use of herbal medicines. They use more than 300 plants taken from a variety of traditions. His philosophy is to create the custom construction of formulas based on Cherokee, Triune, Chinese or other traditions to match an individual, rather than using herbs stereotyped or standardised for a specific disease. This kind of "constitutional medicine" puts the patient at the center of the analysis, rather than the named disease; it is an approach common to most traditional herbal medicine traditions. A number of the leading younger herbalists in the United States today were trained in his methodology.
Publications
* Winston and Kuhn's Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach (2007)
* With Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (2007)
* Herbal Therapeutics: Specific Indications for Herbs & Herbal Formulas (2003)
* With Merrily Kuhn, Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach (2001)
* Saw Palmetto for Men & Women: Herbal Healing for the Prostate, Urinary Tract, Immune System and More (Medicinal Herb Guide) (1999)
* " Nvwoti; Cherokee Medicine and Ethnobotany", in American Herbalism, edited by Michael Tierra (1992)
Biography
David Winston was born in 1956, and started experimenting with plants in the late 1960s by ingesting them and observing their effects. By age 17 he was leading herb walks and teaching about herbs.
Winston is a founding and professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, for which he has served four terms as board member. He is a founding advisory board member of United Plant Savers. He founded and is the dean of the Center for Herbal Studies in Broadway, Warren County, New Jersey. It sponsors classes also in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
Herbal Therapeutics Research Library
David Winston has one of the largest private libraries of botanical medicine in the United States, with holdings of more than 8,000 books and over 12,000 articles on file. The holdings relate to eclectic and Thomsonian Medicine, physiomedicalism, the history of medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacy, pharmocognosy, poisonous plants, mycology, botany and economic botany. The HTRL also has substantial holdings in Southeastern Native American ethnology, Southeastern material culture and ethno-musicology.
Winston also operates an antiquarian book company, Herbalist and Alchemist Books. It deals exclusively with herbal and medical books.
Herbal manufacturing
Winston founded Herbalist and Alchemist, an herbal tincture firm known for spagyric alchemical processing of herbs. The alchemically processed herbs have mineral constituents reduced to ash from the marc added back after filtration. Herbalist and Alchemist does not standardize their herbal products.
Winston notes that different companies use different markers, or different levels of the same markers, or different methods of testing for marker compounds. When different compounds are chosen as "active ingredients" for different herbs, he says, "there is a chance that suppliers will get a substandard batch (low on the chemical markers) and mix it with a batch higher in the desired marker to compensate for the difference."
Teaching
Over the last three decades, Winston has lectured widely at major herbalist conferences, and given classes at the Blue Ridge School. He has also lectured at such institutions as the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) in York, England; Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington; the University of Medicine & Dentistry (UMDNJ) in Newark, New Jersey; George Washington University Medical School in Washington, DC; Dominion Herbal College in Vancouver, BC; and the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona. He is among the "distinguished lecturers and visiting faculty" in the M.S. in Herbal Medicine program at the Tai Sophia Institute, an accredited graduate school in integrative medicine in Laurel, Maryland.
His company, Herbal Therapeutics Inc., runs his library, his consulting entity and school. The David Winston Center for Herbal Studies trains herbalists and medical personnel in the use of herbal medicines. They use more than 300 plants taken from a variety of traditions. His philosophy is to create the custom construction of formulas based on Cherokee, Triune, Chinese or other traditions to match an individual, rather than using herbs stereotyped or standardised for a specific disease. This kind of "constitutional medicine" puts the patient at the center of the analysis, rather than the named disease; it is an approach common to most traditional herbal medicine traditions. A number of the leading younger herbalists in the United States today were trained in his methodology.
Publications
* Winston and Kuhn's Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach (2007)
* With Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (2007)
* Herbal Therapeutics: Specific Indications for Herbs & Herbal Formulas (2003)
* With Merrily Kuhn, Herbal Therapy and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach (2001)
* Saw Palmetto for Men & Women: Herbal Healing for the Prostate, Urinary Tract, Immune System and More (Medicinal Herb Guide) (1999)
* " Nvwoti; Cherokee Medicine and Ethnobotany", in American Herbalism, edited by Michael Tierra (1992)
Bastyr Dispensary is the natural product dispensary at Bastyr Center for Natural Health, the teaching clinic of Bastyr University, located in Fremont/Wallingford neighborhood. Items sold at the dispensary include nutritional supplements, herbal teas and tinctures, homeopathic remedies, flower essences, and a selection of natural household and health and beauty products. The dispensary also offers health-related books, locally made jewelry and other gift items. Some products require a prescription or recommendation from a licensed health care provider.
Quality standards
As a policy, Bastyr Dispensary only sells products that meet quality guidelines and product vendors are required to provide documentation to prove compliance. Restricted items include products with pesticides, synthetic preservatives, dyes, fragrances and other harmful ingredients. Bastyr Dispensary ensures that the nutritional supplements it carries meet or exceed the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Bastyr Dispensary is a resource for patients of Bastyr Center for Natural Health, health care providers and the general public.
Quality standards
As a policy, Bastyr Dispensary only sells products that meet quality guidelines and product vendors are required to provide documentation to prove compliance. Restricted items include products with pesticides, synthetic preservatives, dyes, fragrances and other harmful ingredients. Bastyr Dispensary ensures that the nutritional supplements it carries meet or exceed the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Bastyr Dispensary is a resource for patients of Bastyr Center for Natural Health, health care providers and the general public.
Patients Out of Time (POT) is a patient advocacy organization dedicated to educating public health professionals and the public about medical marijuana. Incorporated in 1995, the group is led by medical and nursing professionals and the five remaining participants in the federal government's Investigational New Drug program for cannabis. POT is a member organization of the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis.
POT is the co-sponsor of a continuing series of medicinal cannabis conferences that are accredited for continuing education. See WWW.medicalcannabis.com for information about The Eighth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics to be held in Portland, OR on May 8-10, 2014 on the campus of the National College of Natural Medicine.. The conference is co-sponsored by Patients Out of Time and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
Find CME accredited cannabis courses on-line at WWW.medicalcannabis.com.
POT is a 501c3 educational charity and a corporation of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
POT Administration
Board of Directors
*Mary Lynn Mathre, President
*Al Byrne, Secretary-Treasurer
*Michael Aldrich,PhD Director
*Irvin Rosenfeld, Director
*Barbara Douglass
*George McMahon
*Sunil Aggawahl, MD,PhD
*Don E. Wirtshafter, Esq.
*Elvy Musikka
*Denis Petro, MD
Founding Directors
*Melanie Dreher, RN, PhD, FAAN
*Barbara Douglass
*Neil Jacobs
*George McMahon
*Corrine Millet
*Mae Nutt
*Denis Petro, MD
*Al Byrne, Lcdr.,USN,ret.
*Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN
*Joe Barker
*Dan Dansak, MD
Board of Advisors
*David Bearman, MD
*Richard Bonnie, JD
*Sandee Burbank
*Joshua Braun
*Patrick Fourmy
*Ed Glick, RN
*Michael Krawitz
*Bryan Krumm, RN
*Joanna McKee
*Jim Miller
*Alice O'Leary
*Carl Olsen
*John Rowlingson, MD
*Ethan Russo, MD
*Gary Storck
*Mark Ware, MD, MSc, MRCP
*Lennice Werth
*Ken Wolski, RN, MPA
*Kevin Zeese, Esq.
POT is the co-sponsor of a continuing series of medicinal cannabis conferences that are accredited for continuing education. See WWW.medicalcannabis.com for information about The Eighth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics to be held in Portland, OR on May 8-10, 2014 on the campus of the National College of Natural Medicine.. The conference is co-sponsored by Patients Out of Time and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.
Find CME accredited cannabis courses on-line at WWW.medicalcannabis.com.
POT is a 501c3 educational charity and a corporation of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
POT Administration
Board of Directors
*Mary Lynn Mathre, President
*Al Byrne, Secretary-Treasurer
*Michael Aldrich,PhD Director
*Irvin Rosenfeld, Director
*Barbara Douglass
*George McMahon
*Sunil Aggawahl, MD,PhD
*Don E. Wirtshafter, Esq.
*Elvy Musikka
*Denis Petro, MD
Founding Directors
*Melanie Dreher, RN, PhD, FAAN
*Barbara Douglass
*Neil Jacobs
*George McMahon
*Corrine Millet
*Mae Nutt
*Denis Petro, MD
*Al Byrne, Lcdr.,USN,ret.
*Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN
*Joe Barker
*Dan Dansak, MD
Board of Advisors
*David Bearman, MD
*Richard Bonnie, JD
*Sandee Burbank
*Joshua Braun
*Patrick Fourmy
*Ed Glick, RN
*Michael Krawitz
*Bryan Krumm, RN
*Joanna McKee
*Jim Miller
*Alice O'Leary
*Carl Olsen
*John Rowlingson, MD
*Ethan Russo, MD
*Gary Storck
*Mark Ware, MD, MSc, MRCP
*Lennice Werth
*Ken Wolski, RN, MPA
*Kevin Zeese, Esq.
Subhuti Dharmananda is an herbalist and acupuncturist who founded the Institute for Traditional Medicine and Preventive Health Care, Inc. (ITM), which operates two clinics in Portland, Oregon and engages in a variety of educational and charitable projects related to traditional medicine. Dharmananda has traveled to China several times, between 1977, when travel became possible, and 2001 in the interests of studying traditional Chinese medicine. He received his PhD in Biology from the University of California in 1980. He taught in Santa Cruz, at the Platonic School of Herbal Studies founded by Dr. Paul Lee with noted herbal faculty members Michael Tierra, Christopher Hobbs, and Grace Marroquin. before moving to Portland, Oregon. He has exerted a significant influence upon the practice of Oriental Medicine through his monographs, clinical studies and training programs.
Institute for Traditional Medicine
Dharmananda established ITM as a non-profit organization in 1979, incorporated it in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California. He moved it to its current location in 1988. It has been a significant support to Chinese medicine in the United States, and has moved to support a variety of other indigenous medicines including Ayurveda, Latin American indigenous medicines, Tibetan medicine and Eastern European traditional medicine. ITM has a mission to enrich the lives of people seeking traditional medicine knowledge and services by clarifying the nature of traditional medicine and demonstrating how it can be utilized in the modern setting.
Part of ITM's activity involves the training of practitioners and charitable administration of Chinese medicine. ITM operates two clinical facilities, the charitable Immune Enhancement Project (IEP) and the multimodal An Hao Natural Health Care Clinic which demonstrates a model for integrative health care by combining naturopathic medicine, chiropractic, acupuncture, shiatsu, Chinese herbs, and modern medicine. IEP is a low cost treatment center providing acupuncture, herb therapies, and shiatsu primarily for patients with serious ailments such as cancer and HIV. The clinics are also training centers for acupuncturists from schools in the Portland area, especially the National College of Natural Medicine.
ITM sponsors clinics or donates materials where people are in need. One project is funding of the Drepung Gomang Monastery clinic run by Tibetan monks in exile in Mundgod, south India. The clinic is run by a Tibetan doctor in the refugee camp. ITM has aided Chinese, Indian, Tibetan, Native American, Central and South American clinics that represent potential reservoirs of traditional medicine culture and resources. Herbs have been donated to Honduras, Guatemala, East Europe, Sri Lanka, India, and New Orleans to provide traditional Chinese health care relief after disasters or to areas in need. ITM has funded the International Trust of Traditional Medicine in India.
In addition to running clinics, Dharmananda has collected a large library of books and journals involved with traditional medicine and supports a variety of research translations on traditional herbal medicine. Dr. Fu Kezhi in Harbin, China provides ongoing translations of Chinese medicinal research, much of which is disseminated through the START Group by subscription to practitioners of Oriental Medicine.
Herbal medicine
At the time Subhuti Dharmananda started practicing, little was known about Chinese medicine in the United States and people were suspect of Chinese patent medicines. Raw herbs were questioned for their unfamiliarity, possible pollution and difficulty of preparation. Dharmananda helped initiate Dharma Consulting International, the All-The-Tea Company, and the low cost People's Herbs Incorporated. He had been a consultant to several major herb companies, including Fmali Herbs (maker of Good Earth Teas), Sen (maker of Sen traditional herbal products)and Health Concerns (maker of Chinese Traditionals herbal medicines pills.) As such he has been a significant influence on American made medicinals based upon Oriental medicine traditions. the International Journal of Oriental Medicine, the Oriental Medicine Journal, the Chinese Medicine Times and the Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine and online journals like JCrows.com, HIV Resources Homepage and the San Francisco Medical Society Homepage. Dharmananda has spoken extensively at conferences of Oriental and alternative medicine including the Pacific Symposium, Herbs and AIDS Conference and the California Acupuncture Association.
*Chinese Herbology Workshop 1985
*Natural Healing With Herbs (editor) with Humbart Santillo 1985
*Tibetan Medicine: A lesson for us all (Update on Herbs) 1985
*Chinese Herbs for Optimum Health 1986
*Chinese Herbology 1986
*Frontiers of Chinese Herb Research 1987
*Chinese Herbal Therapies for immune disorders 1988
*Pearls from the Golden Cabinet: The Practitioner's Guide to the Use of Chinese Herbs and Traditional Formulas 1988
*Prescriptions on Silk and Paper: The history and development of Chinese patent medicines 1989
*Kang Wen "Defeat the epidemic": The role of Chinese herbal medicine in the defeat of the AIDS epidemic 1989
*The Golden Mirror of Chinese Medicine 1992
*Foundations of Chinese Herb Prescribing 1992
*Chinese Herbology: a Professional Training Program 1992
*The Key Link: A detailed analysis of an epidemic disdease 1994
*A Bag of Pearls 2000 2000
Institute for Traditional Medicine
Dharmananda established ITM as a non-profit organization in 1979, incorporated it in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California. He moved it to its current location in 1988. It has been a significant support to Chinese medicine in the United States, and has moved to support a variety of other indigenous medicines including Ayurveda, Latin American indigenous medicines, Tibetan medicine and Eastern European traditional medicine. ITM has a mission to enrich the lives of people seeking traditional medicine knowledge and services by clarifying the nature of traditional medicine and demonstrating how it can be utilized in the modern setting.
Part of ITM's activity involves the training of practitioners and charitable administration of Chinese medicine. ITM operates two clinical facilities, the charitable Immune Enhancement Project (IEP) and the multimodal An Hao Natural Health Care Clinic which demonstrates a model for integrative health care by combining naturopathic medicine, chiropractic, acupuncture, shiatsu, Chinese herbs, and modern medicine. IEP is a low cost treatment center providing acupuncture, herb therapies, and shiatsu primarily for patients with serious ailments such as cancer and HIV. The clinics are also training centers for acupuncturists from schools in the Portland area, especially the National College of Natural Medicine.
ITM sponsors clinics or donates materials where people are in need. One project is funding of the Drepung Gomang Monastery clinic run by Tibetan monks in exile in Mundgod, south India. The clinic is run by a Tibetan doctor in the refugee camp. ITM has aided Chinese, Indian, Tibetan, Native American, Central and South American clinics that represent potential reservoirs of traditional medicine culture and resources. Herbs have been donated to Honduras, Guatemala, East Europe, Sri Lanka, India, and New Orleans to provide traditional Chinese health care relief after disasters or to areas in need. ITM has funded the International Trust of Traditional Medicine in India.
In addition to running clinics, Dharmananda has collected a large library of books and journals involved with traditional medicine and supports a variety of research translations on traditional herbal medicine. Dr. Fu Kezhi in Harbin, China provides ongoing translations of Chinese medicinal research, much of which is disseminated through the START Group by subscription to practitioners of Oriental Medicine.
Herbal medicine
At the time Subhuti Dharmananda started practicing, little was known about Chinese medicine in the United States and people were suspect of Chinese patent medicines. Raw herbs were questioned for their unfamiliarity, possible pollution and difficulty of preparation. Dharmananda helped initiate Dharma Consulting International, the All-The-Tea Company, and the low cost People's Herbs Incorporated. He had been a consultant to several major herb companies, including Fmali Herbs (maker of Good Earth Teas), Sen (maker of Sen traditional herbal products)and Health Concerns (maker of Chinese Traditionals herbal medicines pills.) As such he has been a significant influence on American made medicinals based upon Oriental medicine traditions. the International Journal of Oriental Medicine, the Oriental Medicine Journal, the Chinese Medicine Times and the Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine and online journals like JCrows.com, HIV Resources Homepage and the San Francisco Medical Society Homepage. Dharmananda has spoken extensively at conferences of Oriental and alternative medicine including the Pacific Symposium, Herbs and AIDS Conference and the California Acupuncture Association.
*Chinese Herbology Workshop 1985
*Natural Healing With Herbs (editor) with Humbart Santillo 1985
*Tibetan Medicine: A lesson for us all (Update on Herbs) 1985
*Chinese Herbs for Optimum Health 1986
*Chinese Herbology 1986
*Frontiers of Chinese Herb Research 1987
*Chinese Herbal Therapies for immune disorders 1988
*Pearls from the Golden Cabinet: The Practitioner's Guide to the Use of Chinese Herbs and Traditional Formulas 1988
*Prescriptions on Silk and Paper: The history and development of Chinese patent medicines 1989
*Kang Wen "Defeat the epidemic": The role of Chinese herbal medicine in the defeat of the AIDS epidemic 1989
*The Golden Mirror of Chinese Medicine 1992
*Foundations of Chinese Herb Prescribing 1992
*Chinese Herbology: a Professional Training Program 1992
*The Key Link: A detailed analysis of an epidemic disdease 1994
*A Bag of Pearls 2000 2000