Midwest Herbs & Healing

Herbalism is the art and science of using plants and plant extracts to support health and to heal.  In fact, it is the oldest and most widespread form of healing on the face of planet earth!  Not surprisingly, then, the World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged member nations to explore and encourage their indigenous herbal traditions.  Unlike orthodox medicine's pharmaceuticals, herbs have been time-tested as to safety and efficacy over a period of hundreds--sometimes thousands--of years! (Contrast this to the so-called "tested" pharmaceuticals that are yanked from the market each year owing to a litany of verified harmful effects.)  In fact, medical pioneers like Hippocrates and Galen were expert herbalists and used herbs as their chief form of medicine.

Matthew Alfs, M.H., R.H. (A.H.G.) is a clinical herbalist and one of fewer than 200 of such practitioners nationwide whose education and clinical skills have been peer reviewed by the American Herbalists Guild so as to be granted the status of a "registered herbalist" (R.H.).  Matthew is a graduate of Wild Rose College of Natural Healing, where he studied physiology and Western Herbology and earned his Master-Herbalist (M.H.) diploma.  He subsequently studied Traditional Chinese Medicine at the American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.  He has been in clinical practice since 1998.  Matthew is also the director of the Midwest School of Herbal Studies, (www.midwestherbalstudies.com) which offers a distance-education program in herbal studies.