VIRTUAL HERBALISM CONFERENCE - DAY 2
Physician's View on Building Health with Herbs (and How You Can Too) with Dr. Jacqui Wilkins
Learn how herbs can build health and wellness in this session with Dr. Jacqui Wilkins. Through her experience as a naturopathic physician, plant medicine creator, and educator, she blends clinical training with Indigenous wisdom to explore healing through herbs, ritual, and seasonal medicine-making. Founder of Xálish Medicines, Dr. Jacqui shares how small, intentional habits—rooted in tradition, ancestral reverence, and Earth-based practices—can compound into meaningful change for personal and community well-being.
Discussion Highlights:
- Core principles to build health with herbs
- Starting point for patients new to herbs
- Herbs and simple routines for starting at home today
- Approach to dosing, preparation forms, and duration for acute and chronic care
- Using taste and energetics to build personalized herbal plans
- Definition of “evidence-informed” practice—balancing scientific research, traditional use, pharmacology, and personal outcomes
- Common drug–herb interactions and safe communication with physicians about herb use
- Practical steps for collaborating with doctors on herbal use and what to avoid
Dr. Jacqui, ND is a mixed Indigenous Yakama, Irish, and & Eastern European Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine person, teacher, Land Protector, wisdom keeper and steward of the Earth. Originally from the Mountains of Montana (Apsáalooke territory), Sagebrush and Sandstone. Dr. Jacqui is a Mama & tends to the Xálish Medicine Garden in Snuneymuxw territory, Vancouver Island, where she grows and crafts Plant Medicines through ritual and ceremony for her botanical line Xálish Medicines and Herbalism courses. Honouring her lineages of the Earth and Stars. She is passionate about sharing knowledge & wisdom of Earth based practices, Plant Medicines, Medicine making, Ancestral reverence, postpartum support, decolonizing wellness, and Earth tending (gardening) – to bring connection, deepened relationship and community into our daily lives. Helping us restore our connection to the Earth, well Ancestors, one another and ourselves. When we heal ourselves, we heal the Earth, when we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves.
About Dr. Jacqui Wilkins:
Find Dr. Jacqui:
- on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/among_the_wildflowerss/
- at https://www.xalishmedicines.com/
- contributing The Somatics of Grief class and 15% off any order at Xálish Medicines to the 2026 Herbalism Conference VIP Pass Ticket!
- contributing to the Rooted Routines Course and Turmeric Speaker Film, exclusive upgrades in the 2026 Herbalism Conference VIP Pass Ticket!
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Virtual Herbalism Conference: Live Access
OPENING CEREMONY: FEBRUARY 15
DAY 1: FEBRUARY 16
DAY 2: FEBRUARY 17
DAY 3: FEBRUARY 18
- 3:00 PM EST: Medicinal Mushrooms in Current and Traditional Healing Modalities with Jasper Degenaars
DAY 4: FEBRUARY 19
DAY 5: FEBRUARY 20
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