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Please keep checking back to see new and exciting website updates during the coming weeks.

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing healthcare resources grounded in Nature. Our work brings clinical herbalism to community practice through the weaving of science, spirit and grassroots activism. We provide one of the nation’s most extensive clinical training opportunities in herbal medicine, rooted in deep connection with the plants and place.
We invite you to visit one of our sliding-scale community clinics staffed by professional herbalists and supervised clinical interns, learn more about self-care with herbs through our community classes, or pursue in-depth study in one of our comprehensive herbalist training programs.

Help advance the role of herbal medicine in healing the unsustainable industrial healthcare system and in promoting the wellbeing and self-reliance of your community.
Email lisa@vtherbcenter.org to donate or click here to become a member today!

Our mission is to:

• educate and empower individuals to use traditional remedies as viable options in caring for themselves and their families;
• emphasize partnership with a clinical herbalist or other practitioner as an important adjunct to self-care;
• provide high-quality education for aspiring family and clinical herbalists;
• offer financially accessible health consultations to the community, creating an opportunity for collaborative practice among experienced herbalists, as well as a forum for education of clinical students;
• integrate and collaborate with other modalities and advance the role of the herbalist as an integral part of an effective healthcare model;
• renew deep connection with nature, encouraging a culture of ecological awareness, respect and interrelationship.

VCIH is a small, diverse community of individuals, bringing a variety of experiences, beliefs and practices to our roles as practitioners, teachers, staff, board members, general members and students. We represent many faiths, economic circumstances, sexual orientations and political leanings, among a myriad of other differences and commonalities. We are, however united in our love for the plants and our belief in their capacity to heal. We feel our diversity makes us strong and enhances our ability to serve our multi-faceted community. We welcome you to join us!

We do not discriminate in accepting students to our school, or clients to our clinic. Please click here to read our non-discrimination policy.

We are members of United Plant Savers (Partner in Education), and a school officially registered with the American Herbalists Guild.

News:

New exciting way to support VCIH: Buy your bulk organic herbs from Mountain Rose!
15% of every purchase is donated to VCIH when you begin your shopping from our partners page or by clicking the logo below.

VCIH Journal is out. Selections of work from students of our 3 year Clinical Training Program: research reviews, botanical monograph, recipes and photos! Integrative Herbalism Free, open access.

Community Herb Workshops
Pre-registration required. Contact 224-7100 or info@vtherbcenter.org

Treating Pain with Western Herbs: a Chinese Medical View with Brendan Kelly, Jade Mountain Wellness
Saturday February 25th, 1-4 pm
Chinese medicine has very well developed and insightful ways of understanding symptoms and where they are coming from. This class will present older, classical Chinese medical views on causes for pain, as well as underlying causes. We will discuss how to use local, western herbs within the Chinese tradition. Cost $15 members/$18 non-members

Beating the Sugar Blues with Marie Frohlich and Lisa Masé, Harmonized Cookery
Wednesday April 18th, 6-7:30 pm
Understand the wonderful world of sweeteners, their composition, and the myriads of uses for them. From rice syrup and raw honey to herbal glycerites and root powders, you will gain clarity about the sources of the sugars we ingest, their importance in our health, and how you can use them to thrive.
Cost $10 members/$12 non-members

Announcing a Learning Partnership between VCIH and Goddard College’s Health Arts and Sciences: Bridging Nature, Culture and Healing Program
Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (VCIH) and the Health Arts and Sciences: Bridging Nature, Culture and Healing (HAS) program of Goddard College are pleased to announce a new learning partnership. Combining study in Vermont and in student’s home communities, this joint learning opportunity will enable VCIH students who seek a fully accredited college degree to apply their learning (and transfer credits at the undergraduate level) to their personalized program of study in Health Arts and Sciences.

To learn more, please click this link.

By drawing upon the practitioner training available from VCIH, in conjunction with the ongoing inquiry and broader scholarship facilitated in HAS, students will become practitioner-scholars of Western herbal medicine and expand their focus beyond herbal medicine within the HAS program. Upon graduation, students can choose to work as clinicians, consultants, educators or in numerous other fields, or they may pursue additional study.

To learn more about the Health Arts and Sciences Program at Goddard College, you may contact Jamie Kline at Jamie.Kline@goddard.edu or visit www.goddard.edu or call 800.906.8312.

3-Year Clinical Herbalist training program 

Reading and materials list for this year's classes available. Click here.

Click here for a course catalog.(.pdf format, requires Adobe Reader)

Click here for a complete calendar of all 3 years.

Our curriculum begins with basic, grounded work with key medicinal plants, and progresses into advanced herbal studies and supervised clinical work. Click here for more information.

Click here to apply. Application deadline for 2013 is November 1st, 2012. Prospective students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible in order to allow time for interveiws and financial aid requests. Thank you.