Herbal Medicine for Oral Systemic Health

Presented by: Oscar Sierra

Original Publication Date: October 18, 2022

Course Description:

Join us in an enriching educational journey where you'll gain the expertise to make a significant impact on healthcare. In this course, you will apply your knowledge of cost-effective, safe, and accessible herbal interventions to manage both oral and systemic health issues effectively. Understand the foundational principles of traditional usage and host terrain energetics, providing you with a comprehensive overview. Through rigorous analysis, you'll master the art of effective collaboration, ensuring sustainable patient outcomes. Dive into dentistry-specific herbal interventions and apply them to your practice. Additionally, sharpen your skills in analyzing host terrain theory, exploring biomarkers and low-tech macroscopic signs, and expanding your comprehension of this crucial concept. This course offers a holistic approach to healthcare, equipping you with the tools to make a tangible difference in patient well-being.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply knowledge of cost-effective, readily available, safe, and efficient herbal interventions in the management and treatment of both oral and systemic health issues.
• Understand the traditional usage and host terrain energetics as an introductory overview. Analyze when and how to collaborate effectively to achieve sustainable patient outcomes.
• Apply basic herbal interventions relevant to dentistry.
• Analyze host terrain theory from both a biomarker perspective and a low-tech macroscopic observation of signs, enhancing comprehension of this concept.

Speaker Bio:

Oscar Sierra is the founder and head practitioner of Sierra Botanica & Collaborative Medicine (SBCM), a full-service compounding apothecary and clinic based in Atlanta. SBCM works with patients with chronic diseases, such as cancer, by combining ancient botanical medicine with modern functional medicine analytics.

Oscar hails from the martial arts, where finding/feeling pressure points to humanely neutralize opponents easily transferred over to acupuncture to help restore balance in medical practice. Concepts of balance, Yin & Yang, meridians, Qi, flow, the 5 Elements, and precision remained unchanged, pivoting to the Medical Arts. Oscar earned a bachelor's degree in nutrition science & minored in anthropology with a focus on Traditional Medicine at the University of Georgia. After 3,000+ hours of hands-on apprenticeship training and national board exams, Oscar earned his Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture National Board Certifications (2009). He became a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild (2021). In addition to the valuable seminar, conference, and workshop continuing education in ancient Traditional Medicines with plant, animal, and fungal-based pharmacopeias, Oscar also continued studies in the more biomedical and systems engineering fields of Functional Medicine and wholistic oncology. Since 2012, he has been a regular speaker at regional and national symposia on dentistry, functional medicine, and traditional medicine. He presents on incorporating plant- and fungal-based therapies into clinical practice.

The amalgamative zenith of these areas of study is called the Eclectic Triphasic Medical System (ETMS), an approach created by master herbalist Donnie Yance, one of Oscar's mentors. In the ETMS, the ancient wisdom of Traditional Medicine (Chinese, Ayurvedic, American Eclectic, Southern Folk) informs modern functional analytics to produce patient-centered care. Suppose he's not out mountain biking, playing music, giving lectures, or going on herb walks with the Georgia Herbalists Guild or Mushroom Club of Georgia. In that case, you can usually find him custom compounding herbal formulas for patients via SBCM or consulting via Zoom with patients worldwide from the renowned Mederi Center in Oregon.