Herbalist ~ Nutritionist ~ Professor ~ World Wanderer

Spices and herbs call to be around the world, and traveling the world provides limitless inspiration for new ways of filling our lives with medicinal plants as food and medicine.

A healthy relationship with medicinal plants goes beyond tinctures and capsules, and integrates into our everyday life.

There are multitudes of ways we can prepare medicinal plants which can seamlessly fit into our everyday life, such as crafted beverages, medicinal hummus, or even fresh medicine pestos. These can offer preventative health benefits or can be therapeutically targeted.

As a licensed nutritionist, I believe our best medicine comes from the food we eat.

And at the same time, I know that medicinal plants have been an integral part of the daily diet of the healthiest cultures of the world -- just think about the abundance of herbs in Mediterranean cuisine.

I invite you to expand your nutrition practice by integrating dietary herbal preparations into your therapeutics. Offer patients something made from whole food that is also therapeutically targeted and highly biologically active.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food!

As an educator and consultant, I can speak to your audience about the design, preparation, and practical implementation of these preparations as well and specific therapeutic development of them for a specific disease or population.

About Bevin

Bevin Clare, M.S., R.H., CNS, is an herbalist, nutritionist, mother and Professor and Program Director of the Master’s of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. She holds a MSc in Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has studied herbal medicine around the world to blend her knowledge of traditional uses of plants with modern science and contemporary healthcare strategies as a consultant and educator. She serves as an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Northeast College of Health Sciences.

Bevin is the past President of the American Herbalists Guild and a current board member. She brings herbal medicine into conversations around the world in her speaking, teaching, writing and consulting. She travels the world with her two kids in tow, tasting spices, exploring markets and wandering the countryside.

You can find Bevin’s musing on a variety of Clinical Herbalism topics, including infectious disease, at www.bevinclare.com. She resides on a beautiful piece of earth in Maryland with her family.