Pat Weinert, M.H.
Welcome, my name is Pat Weinert and I'm a graduate of The School of Natural Healing where I earned my Master's Degree in Herbology and I'm currently serving on the American Clinical Board of Nutrition (ACBN).
Like many others, I only began learning about nutritional and herbal therapies after years of health issues. The final straw came after a series of chronic health issues where I ended up with the crippling pain and suffering of Rheumatoid Arthritis. I don't recommend waiting until you are in a crisis mode, like I was, to make health changes.
The traditional medical doctors hadn’t been able to get to the root cause of my problem, so they offered me medications that would help with the pain, but would destroy my immune system making me susceptible to various infections. Believing that our bodies are able to heal themselves, given the proper nutrition, I decided to go the natural route. I tried to heal myself with every supplement and alternative treatment I read about. Many did help temporarily, but nothing really eliminated my suffering until I finally found a Traditional Chinese Medical (TCM) Doctor who treated me exclusively with only wholesome herbs. He completely gave me my life back. I wanted to understand how the herbs could heal so quickly when the medical community, said there was no cure. With this experience behind me I was inspired to learn more so I could continue helping myself and others learn how to take their health back naturally. If you'd like to learn more, keep reading, but realize this website is a work in progress and much more content will be added. If you have a question, please leave me an email!
Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing
Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing has been a real blessing to me. I began taking classes to understand how the herbs helped heal me and had no intention of becoming a Master Herbalist. I loved the fact that the school had online classes I could take. I was so fascinated by the studies I figured I may as well get credit for my learning efforts. After 2 ½ years of reading, studying, doing all the required projects, testing, etc., I finally made it out to Utah to take the final class...The Master Herbalist Certification Seminar. It was one of the most grueling weeks I've ever experienced, but I learned so much, met the other students (wonderful people with similar interests) and got to know the Christopher family, who are the nicest people you'd ever want to meet.
The School opened in 1953 after Dr. Christopher realized there wasn't enough time in the day to heal everyone that needed him. He felt he could have a much bigger impact on the world by starting the school and by traveling the world lecturing & teaching people on how to take care of themselves. He always believed there should be an herbalist in every home and a Master Herbalist in every community. Dr. Christopher was one for the foremost herbalists in the US, and the only one given permission to treat soldiers in WWII with herbs. He was supervising in a medical dispensary when they brought in a soldier with a case of severe impetigo that couldn't be healed by any of the prominent US hospitals. The army wanted to give this soldier an honorable discharge and send him home, but the soldier refused. He didn't want to take this disease home to his family. Private Christopher spoke up at a meeting and said he could heal him, the doctors laughed, knowing he preferred herbs over medications. The soldier said, "I don't care if he puts manure on my head if he can heal me." Only given one week to try healing this soldier, he made a strong herbal tea of black walnut, wrapped up the scalp with this tea, and kept it moist for an entire week. To all the doctors astonishment, after taking the herbs/bandages off the soldiers head, the scabs and infections pulled right off with the bandages. From then on Private Christopher was allowed to use herbs to heal other soldiers.
His son David Christopher, M.H., now runs the school with the assistance of his children, who are also Master Herbalists.
If you're interested in learning more about the school, interested in taking classes yourself, or you'd like to learn more about Dr. Christopher's story you can go to the SchoolofNaturalHealing.com.
"Whole" Herbal Products you can trust!
Dr. Christopher always believed plants should be used in their whole form. Plants can have hundreds of chemical constituents in them which provide numerous synergistic effects. The problem is, if you take one of those chemical constituents out of a plant it may be more effective (this is why pharmaceuticals work quickly), but it can also cause negative side effects. These side effects are drastically minimized when a plant is used in its whole form, that's why most herbs have been used safely around the world for thousands of years.
The Christopher products are produced by Wholistic Botanicals following Dr. Christopers very stringent requirements. They only source herbs that are organic or wildcrafted. They do not use chemicals or chemical clones, added fillers or flow agents, and are not genetically modified. They only use Whole Herb/Plant products. Only Mother Nature can place the proper proportions of herbal constituents in perfect balance which is what makes whole plant products work better.
The US is one of the richest countries on earth, but when you look at where we stand in health outcomes we are one of the worst, why is that? Prescription medicines are wonderful in emergency situations, they do work more quickly, but have the risk of side effects, sometimes very serious. I wouldn't want to be anywhere in the world other than the U.S. in an emergency, however, we're ranked very low when it comes to managing chronic disease. We ignore and mask our symptoms by taking medications which do not get to the root cause of our issue. Have you ever listened to a commercial for an illness and thought, those side effects are worse than the problem I'm trying to treat!
I'd like to thank all the natural-minded doctors, scientists, and researchers around the world for bringing forth scientific evidence showing that herbal remedies do work. In my opinion, the only way to get to the root cause of our diseases is by modifying our diet & lifestyle, and using herbal formulas to assist the body where necessary.
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