Working with our Herbal Allies to develop an integrated protocol for the treatment of serious infective disease

With Cristina Cromer, Medical Herbalist

Webinar by ZOOM facilitated by the NIMH Education Team

Date: Thursday, 23rd Of April.

Time: 2.30pm BST

Cost: £20 members, £30 to non members

Description:

A webinar on Zoom ( 1 and a half to 2 hours with questions ) led by Cristina Cromer to explore the use of herbs during a serious infective disease outbreak.

Cristina will explore the herbal therapeutics needed during a serious infective outbreak, including how to build understanding of the infection, prophylaxis, and how to develop herbal treatment protocols. Topics covered will include fever management, managing stress & anxiety, and supporting people through recovery and convalescence.

LESSON OUTLINE

-Self introduction, outlining the lesson

-Red flags, warnings

-Physiology of acute immune reaction: fever, inflammation

-Break for questions

-How to think about a new disease, how to research, what to be careful about (spectrum of conspiracies <——> rigid thinking)

-Refreshing understanding of actions and affinities

-Break for questions

-Developing a treatment protocol : what to think about : differentials, red flags

-Bedside medicine: managing a fever, alteratives

-Adjunctive support : sleep, diet, stress

-Break for questions

-Recovery and convalescence : avoiding sequelae, post viral fatigue etc.

-Further considerations: bacterial disease in a post-antibiotic age, living with pandemic risk

-Questions and discussion

About Cristina:

With a life-long interest in nature and the plants, Cristina studied for her BSc. degree in herbal medicine at the University of Westminster, and graduated in 2003. She has lived and worked as a community herbalist in Brixton for more than thirty years, seeing patients both privately and on the shop floor at the local wholefood shop. She has a particular interest in stories and storytelling, and understands illness as a way that people tell the story of their distress. The Plants also have stories to tell, and Cristina works to connect the plants with the people through their mutual stories. Cristina is a respected herbalist of many years standing with experience of both chronic and acute medicine. She has taught herbal medicine to beginners and to university students; she makes herbal medicines, takes herb walks, shares tea-tastings and loves the company of other herbalists