Clinical Phytotherapy Summer Camp

Advanced Training in Botanical Medicine for Practitioners and Senior Students

Sunday August 9th through Thursday August 13th 2009

• Format based around case reviews
• Detailed discussion of pathologies, therapeutic strategies and botanical materia medica for specific conditions

• Cases and conditions will include:

  Healthy heart and circulation
  Preventing osteoporosis
  Repairing connective tissue
  Managing anxiety and insomnia
  Managing auto-immune diseases

• Additional 2 days on cancer care with botanicals and nutrition. Using cases studies in different types of cancer as examples, review the bio-mechanics of cancer (what it is and how it progresses), blood and tissue tests for diagnosis, treatment planning and monitoring, nutritional and botanical interventions, working with chemotherapy and radiation and overall case management strategies.

• Also enjoy yoga and breath work, herb walks, a chance to participate in the horticulture therapy program, a camp fire, delicious home cooking featuring vegetables from the garden and lots of fun.

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Instructed by Chanchal Cabrera MSc, MNIMH
Practicing herbal medicine for 22 years. Faculty Director in Botanical Medicine at the
Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine (New Westminster, BC) since 2004
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• Classes run 9.30 am – 5.30 pm. 30 hours of instruction
• Optional activities may be scheduled in the evenings.

Innisfree Farm
3636 Trent Road
Courtenay BC
V9N 9R4

250 336 8767
chanchal@chanchalcabrera.com