Sourcing Herbs Is a Nightmare: Out of Stock, Wrong Form, Price Just Doubled

I also wanted to talk about some of the tools and side projects I've been working on.

This isn't promotion because they're not available to sell or anything, but as I have been stepping into more teaching roles and working with my Path to Practitioner community, and helping build people in that phase of I have herbal education, but I need to figure out how to apply it clinically, which is what I love.

Whether you're planning to make this a career or you just want to see herbs work effectively like this is the community that fills that gap.

I have been reconsidering a lot of my own resources.

And I've been taking time to go through and organize and recompile and just think about how I can make myself more effective.

And part of being effective is being able to access the information you need.

The world of herbalism is so vast, and I have so much information from every course I've taken in herbalism and Ayurveda and functional nutrition and anything adjunct to all of those.

My laptop is just hundreds of gigabytes of just... material.

And of course, I can't memorize that all.

And of course, I can't read it all every day and fully connect with it because there's so much there.

And I've definitely done a really good job of picking out the pieces I use every day in regular practice.

I've made go-to reference sheets and resources, but I've been feeling like, oh, I need more.

I need more.

And And from the moment I started practicing clinically, like from the moment I was in my first internship working with real clients, I'm like, I have a vision to create a clinical handbook.

Something that would just give you all in one place these like really useful clinical references that make you effective, that make this a little quicker, that gives you those pieces of information that you might just forget or, you know, you might use a lot but not have them committed to memory.

Yeah.

Some examples, like how about some go-to herbs for different actions or knowing what herbs have what tropisms or directions, you know, here's my list of upward moving foods or downward moving foods or outward moving foods, etc.

here are my medical abbreviations.

Here's some Latin terms that come up all the time.

Here's some, you know, Ayurvedic cheat sheets or some traditional Chinese medicine cheat sheets.

So I can remember, oh, those are the indications for these dhatus being out of balance, or these are the indications for the doshas being out of balance.

And while there's, you know, a good portion of the work I do is, you know, memory, it's feel, it's intuition, it's checking certain things, but I always want to go deeper.

And I always know that there's more information that I want to access, but I don't necessarily have space to commit it to memory.

So I'm working on compiling my years of study and knowledge from all of the different courses and spaces and places I've been learning and making them into really handy clinical reference tools.

You know, just go to interactive tools that you can have handy.