From Vomiting Calamus to Dumping My Tinctures: Mistakes I Made Early On

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In this episode I'm getting honest about the early missteps that shaped me as a clinical herbalist. From buying ashwagandha and shatavari in the wrong form to choking down half-ground herbs in my kitchen, to dropping fifty bucks on a bougie Sedona shatavari tincture that had barely any herb in it, these are the lessons I wish someone had handed me instead of learning them the hard way. I'm also getting into the times I threw myself out of balance experimenting on my own body, including a cayenne experience that dried me out and a calamus dose that ended in a full night of pitta style vomiting before a public talk. Plus why I stopped making folk method tinctures, why I finally built my clinical reference document, and the moment I realized I couldn't save everybody who wasn't ready to be saved.

What We Cover

• Why herb form and part used matters more than most retailers let on
• My ashwagandha and shatavari cut and sifted disaster
• Raw guggul resin versus processed guggul, and why I ended up burning mine as incense
• The fifty dollar Sedona shatavari tincture that taught me to stop paying for packaging
• How cayenne pushed me into a hot dry vata pattern and what that taught me about energetics
• My calamus overdose story and the vomiting that came with it
• Why I finally built my own clinical reference document, and why you should start yours today
• Learning that not everyone wants to be saved, and letting go of the need to convert people
• Buying herbs I never used and the herbal waste that came with it
• Why I stopped making folk method tinctures and who I trust to make them instead
• Moving from timid dosing to confident clinical dosing
• Why I created Path to Practitioner Potency

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