ABOUT
Hi! I’m Aidan
I am an herbalist, parent, and much else besides based in Duluth MN on the traditional and contemporary lands of the Ojibwe people. Like many, I endeavor to resist developing myself and my various identities into a personal brand in an already commodity saturated overculture while at the same time offering up my work to the world. I am drawn to this path by a persistent drive to imagine a world where all of us are able to find the support we need through growing networks of mutual aid. It is my hope that in the processes of meeting our material and health needs we might together foster something recognizable as community. I have felt such a prospect invariably involves the continual cultivation and renewal of kin-based relations to the land.
Herbalism connects all the dots
My Approach
I am not a doctor. I do not treat or diagnose illness. I offer a supportive and integrative approach that seeks to help identify patterns of imbalance, dispel obstacles to cure and support whole person wellness. To this end I employ herbal remedies in the form of tinctures, teas, and topicals as well as potentially working with nutrition, stress management, lab interpretation, physical assessment, and nutritional supplements.
Plant medicine can be nourishing, tissue repairing, cleansing, warming, cooling, tonifying, moistening, transformative, moving, grounding and so much more. My role is to be a matchmaker, translator and teacher. More specifically I aim to integrate traditional western herbal knowledge with the science, physiology, and nutrition grounded practice of functional medicine. I am a bioregional herbalist at heart, but I respect many forms of medicine and I welcome being part of a wellness team.
More about me
My fascination with the green world and community herbalism grew steadily in early life but my formal studies of Western Herbal Medicine began in 2008 with Lise Wolff’s “3 Seasons of Herbal Wisdom” class in Minneapolis MN. Since then, I have sought the teachings of various clinical herbalists including distance learning via Paul Bergner and the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism as well as 10 months of direct apprenticeship and case studies with Mathew Wood. In 2018 I completed a one-year clinical intensive program at the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine in North Carolina. This school teaches a model of herbalism called “Functional Herbalism” which blends modern clinical skills with traditional western herbalism as well as the eclectic tradition of using the best remedy, herbal or otherwise, to address imbalances. Training included study of anatomy, physiology, pathology, clinical nutrition, consultation skills, physical assessment, blood work interpretation, and regular participation as a clinician in the school’s free clinic. Since then, I have seen clients mostly at a distance via phone or video but also in person when the situation allows. I am currently searching for an office space in the Duluth area.
I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to tend a budding medicinal forest garden at my home where I hope to source most of the remedies I recommend as well as offer herbal remedies to the larger community. Each new season brings this aspect of my work closer to the heart of what I do.
THE CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE, OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. THIS INFORMATION HAS NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.