Herb Walks

The herb walks are given in two formats. Both are informative and educational but distinctly different. The Group Herb Walks or, lovingly referred to as 'Guerrilla herb walks', are full day events with a group of similarly interested people. The Personal Herb Walks are well.....more personal. It's an event with you, me and all the plants we come across in an hour at a place of your choice in or around Tucson.

Your Guide: Charlie Kane has been utilizing native southwestern plants medicinally for the last decade. As a young boy he was first introduced to plant usage through his grandfather who was a backwoodsman - "My grandfather, my brother and I would collect wild cresses and onions together. His favorite plant for treating poison ivy rashes we occasionally got from tromping around was Jewelweed. He knew all of the trees, during the winter and summer alike." The seeds that were planted from Charlie's boyhood would later play a pivotal role in his life path. As a young adult Charlie discovered how plants can be powerful tools of healing, first by seeing the effects in his own body, then seeing it in others. Later, through working with local herbalists, including studies at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, and applying himself in self study Charlie developed a practical, hands-on, and effective style of herbalism. What is seen today at TCBM is an eclectic approach combining traditional and modern herbal uses, western physiology, and constitutional work.

Specializing in:

• Herbal support of wellness
• Constitutional herbal medicine
• Native plant therapies for many of today's ailments
• Dispensed high quality herbal medicines personally prepared and ethically collected from the southwestern US

Herbalism that is based upon native plants as healing agents almost always summons a profound healing experience. The closeness of the medicine and the connection which it fosters are primary facets in a regional plant-based path to wellness.

A holistic approach towards health is taken when deeper
disharmonies, along with superficial symptoms are relieved. This is what constitutional herbalism is based upon. This perspective is needed for sustained and profound resolution of distress. At the Tucson Clinic of Botanical Medicine the person is treated, not just the reflection of the disharmony which is the pathology or labeled disease.