Herbal Allies: My Journey With Plant Medicine

Twenty plants, including familiar trees like the aspen, birch, spruce, and poplar, as well as lesser-known plants like Labrador tea, cow parsnip, and buffalo berry, form the soul of herbalist Robert Rogers's medicine kit. Herbal Allies chronicles the journey that led Rogers to become an herbalist and shares his deep knowledge of the plants that shaped his practice. The author weaves personal experience, observations, knowledge from indigenous healers, and many years of expertise from his practice as a professional herbalist and clinical professor to present a unique and fascinating narrative that not only limns one man's vital connection to plants but also provides invaluable information on effectively using plant medicine for the prevention and treatment of a variety of health conditions.

Robert Rogers is an herbalist with over forty years of experience. He holds a BS from the University of Alberta, where he is an assistant clinical professor in family medicine, and taught plant medicine, including herbology and flower essences, at MacEwan University for ten years. He currently teaches in the Earth Spirit Medicine Program at the Northern Star College in Edmonton.

A past chair of the Alberta Natural Health Agricultural Network and Community Health Council of Capital Health, Rogers is a fellow of the International College of Nutrition, past chair of the medicinal mushroom committee of the North American Mycological Association, and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms and Discovery Phytomedicine. He cohosts the Alberta Herb Gathering (www.herbgatheringalberta.com), held every other year.

Rogers is the author of The Fungal Pharmacy, A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle, and Mushroom Essences, among many other titles.