PLEASE JOIN US IN WELCOMING Thomas Avery garran, Ph.D. ON March 13tH, 2025 AT 4PM PT/5PM MT/6PM CT/7PM ET
Please join us for a discussion with Thomas Avery Garran, Ph.D. to learn about his experience growing East Asian medicinals in New England/NE United States.
Some topics of discussion will include what he is growing now, what he plans to grow, challenges and successes in his growing experience, and what he sees as the potential for increasing domestic growing of Chinese herbs in the United States. Specific herbs to be discussed include Schisandra chinensis (wu wei zi), Scutellaria baicalensis (huang qin), and Atractylodes lancea (cang zhu).
Thomas Avery Garran, Ph.D.
Thomas Avery Garran has been studying plant medicine for over 30 years. He lived in China from 2007 - 2023 and received his PhD in Materia Medica studies and Plant Pharmacy at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing: National Center for Materia Medica Resources and Daodi Herbs (the first non-Chinese recipient of this degree). He has a masters degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine and a certificate in herbal medicine from the American School of Herbalism. Dr. Garran is the author of 2 books on the use of Western herbs in Chinese medicine (2008, 2014). He is the translator (with annotation) of the first book on growing and processing daodi Chinese herbs (2019) and the first men’s health book published in Chinese medicine (mid-17th century) ~ forthcoming. He is also the co-translator of a free e-book on the initial response to the covid outbreak by the Chinese medicine community in China. Dr. Garran has also published widely in both academic and herbal journals, and has a new Substack blog (ThomasAveryGarranPhD). Dr. Garran is the executive director of the East West School of Herbology and president of both Passiflora Press and Herb Whisperer, Inc., which focuses on agriculture of medicinal plants and education. He now resides in Western Massachusetts where he and his wife are building an herbal sanctuary and educational center.
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