Have you been wondering if an assessment tool would benefit your practice? Do you sometimes struggle to differentiate which herbs best match your clients, beyond addressing symptoms or diseases? Are your recommendations sometimes missing the mark, but you’re not sure why? It may be that you could use more—and different kinds of—information.  

This session will provide an overview of the many benefits of utilizing an assessment method of some kind, along with some caveats and ethical guidelines. We’ll highlight tongue assessment, given its relative ease of use and applicability across in-person and virtual settings, with a micro introduction that will have you doing a basic self-assessment right away. Bring your questions—we'll have time for those, too! 

Larken Bunce, MS is a clinical herbalist, educator, writer, gardener, and photographer. She is executive director and faculty at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, which runs a full-time sliding-scale community clinic and training programs spanning self-care to clinical practice.

This class is a part of the Clinical Craft Series hosted by Sovereignty Herbs and the Herbal Practice Connexion.