Purple Moon Herbs and Studies, LLC

02/01/2025

Happy New Year! -

Introduction to Integrative Hospice and Palliative Care Dr. Rachel Klickman, DVM, CVA, CHPV, CVNN March 7th - 9th, 2025 Approved for 16.5 RACE CE credits  Lowood Educational Center, Duck, North Carolina Hospice and Palliative Care has been used throughout history to ease the discomfort of chronic, ...

12/12/2024

Evidence-Based Medicine -

Reading student homework can be so much fun! In fact, reading about herbs is fun! Before the advent of modern science, humans ascribed all kinds of reasons to the effects of herbs. Tanacetum parthenium (Feverfew) is a great example of this.  My student, Kristen Barnes (2024), shared these 2 histor...

10/12/2024

Happy International Veterinary Day!!

05/12/2024

Hospice and Palliative Care -

Do you actually know what Hospice is?  I didn’t! I always thought Hospice was practiced by vets who only believe in natural death, regardless of pain and suffering. When I started teaching with Dr. Kris August (who co-wrote the guidelines and Hospice text), I had it in the back of my mind to tre...

21/11/2024

End of Year Pricing -

Can you believe 2024 is almost over? It is time to start thinking about 2025 CE! Sign up to join us in the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina this spring or fall. Prices are locked in until January 1st, so sign up now! We look forward to seeing you.   

03/11/2024

Good morning from Lowood Educational Center! I'm grateful for another great class. What are you grateful for today?

24/10/2024

Great Smokies Veterinary Conference -

Ralph Lee's Great Smokies Veterinary Conference November 6-10, 2024This conference is in Asheville, NC, so we were all worried about the feasibility, both in terms of the city and the conference center being accessible, and in terms of not wanting to stress a decimated infrastructure. However, I jus...

23/09/2024

Purple Moon Merchandise -

Purple Moon Merchandise! We have T-shirts in 3 colors: lavender, sage green and grey. They all have the saying "We have herbs for that" on the back. We have 2 hoodies: purple and grey. We also have tote bags. The shirts and hoodies are unisex sizing, and the hoodies run large.  Check the website f...

16/09/2024

Last Chance! -

Last week, just before 3 days of teaching, I got a bug bite on my eyelid that almost swelled my eye shut (of course I didn’t take pictures). My co-teacher and TA arrived, and they immediately made me a fomentation. A fomentation is a tea applied to a cloth and then topically to the affected area. ...

12/09/2024

Join us at the Virtual IAAHPC Conference. -

Are you signed up for the 2024 Virtual IAAHPC CE Conference   from September 26 – 29?  Dr. Rachel Klickman and I are presenting Herbal Support for Palliative Care: A Lab. We hope you enjoy it!

31/08/2024

The lyfe cycle of a blackberry

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29/08/2024

AHVMA Annual Conference -

Are you coming to the AHVMA Annual Conference in Reno, NV from September 28-October 1?  I will be speaking on Ayurveda.  I hope to see you there, it will be a great time to connect. 

22/08/2024

Ways to Think about Treatment -

There are many ways to think about the practice of veterinary medicine, both in terms of diagnosis and treatment. In terms of diagnosis, in the USA, we all learned the standard western organ-based approach. In Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM), they use either an 8-Principles or a 5-Ele...