About the Author - C. Shaw

 About the Author C. Shaw, a practicing Herbalist. 

I have been ‘studying’ herbal medicine since the 80’s.  I have some formal training, but also a lot of real life experience with them.  My first class was a course in Edible and Medicinal Herbs at Angelina College and was taught by a man named Ray Nevells.  A few years later, he showed up at my door and made me an offer.  He wanted to help me build an herb farm and a teaching center to spread the word about herbal medicine.  He didn’t want this knowledge to die with him, and he thought I was the person to spread the word.  I was honored to have been chosen by him to carry his message forward!  I have done demonstrations and have taught classes on this subject off and on ever since.  I am still a ‘student’ of herbal medicine and have continued my education through the years.  I have a Family Herbalist Certificate of Achievement from Dr, John Christopher’s School of Natural Healing, a Certified Herbalist Diploma from Nicole Apelian’s Lost Remedies Academy, and a few others picked up along the way.  I am currently completing 3 separate courses in Dr. Patrick Jones’ Homegrown Herbalist School of Botanical Medicine.  You are never too old to stop learning!  If you ever meet someone who says they know everything there is to know about herbal medicine, RUN!  They are lying.  No one can possibly know everything there is to know about a subject that is based on knowledge drawn from thousands of years of experience and many different cultures, as well as some trial and error along the way.  So, I do not consider myself an expert, but I do have a massive amount of knowledge on this subject, which I have picked up over many, many years of study and observation.

The majority of my experience and knowledge is on plants that are readily found, or will easily grow right here in East Texas.  It’s okay to know about the northern, or desert, or mountain, or even foreign herbs, but, if SHTF, they won’t help you much.  And that SHTF scenario doesn’t even have to be an earth-shattering, nor even a world-shaking event.  It can be something as simple as not being able to afford to buy a remedy, or like happens occasionally around here, you are going through a natural disaster and can’t get to outside sources for a period of time, long or short, and a remedy is needed immediately for you, a loved one or a neighbor.  It’s good to know that you can walk out into your own yard, or a nearby pasture or wooded area, and simply harvest what you need.  It’s security in it’s most basic form. You are probably here on this earth because, at some point in the past, your ancestors had a knowledge of the world around them and how to use the gifts God left growing nearby.  

What a shame if you let this knowledge die, and possibly your descendants never exist, just because you didn’t know even the basics of this art.  That’s why even after all these years I am still teaching what I have learned to others, and adding to my base of knowledge through their experiences as well.  I don’t know where Ray is now; he wasn’t a young man even back then, but I hope that wherever he is, he knows that I am still carrying on his mission of keeping the old ways alive by teaching others.

With hopes of blessing the future by remembering the past,

C Shaw

 

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