David Winston, RH (AHG), an internationally known herbalist, lecturer, author, ethnobotanist and founder of the deeply respected company, Herbalist & Alchemist, has been studying, practicing, teaching and researching Chinese, Western/Eclectic and Southeastern American herbal traditions for 45+ years, and his world-renowned two-year herbal studies program, the David Winston Center for Herbal Studies, has been educating a wide range of healthcare providers in clinical herbal medicine since 1980. David also has one of the largest private herbal research libraries in the U.S, the Herbal Therapeutics Research Library and was a co-founder of the American Herbalists Guild, the first professional herbalists’ organization in the US. He is a consultant to hundreds of prominent physicians (MDs, NDs, DOs, DCs) throughout the US, Canada and Europe and has authored hundreds of articles and a number of books on herbs.