Botanical Medicine for Women's Health: Best Herb Book of 2010

Botanical Medicine for Women's Health, the primary textbook for the Herbal Medicine for Women distance-learning course, was awarded the American Botanical Council's James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award for 2010. This award, created in 2006 by the American Botanical Council, is given annually to a book or book service that provides a significant contribution to literature in the fields of botany, taxonomy, ethnobotany, phytomedicine, or other disciplines related to the vast field of medicinal plants. From the award letter sent from Mark Blumenthal, ABC Executive Director: "This award is being presented to you to acknowledge the creation and publication of this exceptionally beautiful modern masterpiece, denoting the rich history and tradition of herbs and herbals.... "

ABC Board of Trustees President, Steven Foster, said that “… Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health … combines the empirical traditional observations of the botanical practitioner and herbalist with the detailed scientific nuance of a medical doctor. The wisdom, limitations, and possibilities of divergent worlds usually separated by a gulf are bridged by her grasp of both worlds. Under Aviva Romm's guidance, the result is an authoritative-yet-accessible collaborative effort with other knowledgeable, respected experts, which seamlessly blends a rare and welcome balance of tradition and science. pected experts, which seamlessly blends a rare and welcome balance of tradition and science.”

from students of the Herbal Medicine for Women Distance Learning Course

•  From the first assignment I sent to Aviva in the Fall of 2006 to the last assignment in the Fall of 2010, my life with Herbal Medicine for Women has been incredibly enriching. This course has really solidified my love for botanical medicine and women’s health. Completing Aviva’s course has imprinted the confidence, inspiration and empowerment into my path to keep on going.

•  What a journey and empowerment and connection to myself, all the spirited women in the course and a gifted teacher ~~  YOU !!

•  You are absolutely going to love the course. It will change your life.

•  You are awesome, I’m so glad I’m in this course…it’s INVALUABLE to my midwifery work!!!!•  I really love th[e] discussion forum. Often the messages come at the perfect time for what I am reading/thinking about.

•  I absolutely love it! It speaks directly to my heart and this way of being, and using herbs is very precious and is deep in my bones thanks to you and those like you who have dedicated their lives to preserving these traditions of safe, sane, wise herbal medicine for women and children!

•  [T]he course has been so delightfully challenging that I have really stuck with it…. Although I am an easily distracted person who has often times required one-on-one interaction with an instructor, I have had no regret with going outside of my comfort zone and taking this course. And it's 100% because of the awesome learning opportunity it has provided enhanced by the personal extras that Aviva adds. 
 Quite honestly, the course is superior to anything I have seen.  I think for women’s practitioners such as myself there is no better course. I also think that for those who desire to be practitioners for all ages and genders they would be able to do much better care for the women in their practice with this program under their belt.

•  Just finished listening to both of your talks from the past teleconferences section of your website on “The Intake Interview” on my MP3 while making herbal syrups last night. Thank you for the compassion, care and wisdom you expressed in both of those talks, I was moved to tears by them! I am hoping to listen to them over and over.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

•  Just wanted to pass along that it means so much to me to have you go through my lessons and write your comments along the way. I appreciate the feedback and it helps me learn!

•  You are going to love this program! Just about every email that comes through is dripping with tid bits of information.

•  Hello! I received my books and course materials and I'm SO excited and overwhelmed with gratitude and joy! What a beautiful, beautiful course you have put together! And thanks for the handwritten card, the personal touch was very lovely:) I'm just finishing up a semester and am right in the middle of exams/finals so I haven't had a whole lot of time to jump right into it, but another 2 weeks and then I'll have a lot more time. I wish you much success in your upcoming exams. You're an inspiration and I'm very grateful.
 

About Aviva's Books

•   I should start by saying your have written the BEST books on pregnancy, birth, natural childcare and herbalism ever written in my time. I have read and reread several and refer them to people, daily, in my waking life.

•   I have The Natural Pregnancy Book and really enjoy it.... It’s like no other pregnancy book I have read.

•   Thank you for being such a great role model for those of in the caring community as well as us women who are mothers desiring to make changes in the greater community.

•   Yours were the first books I read when I learned I was pregnant, and in this overly medicalized culture, they showed me the possibility of a natural, healthy, empowered pregnancy and birth. Many thanks.

•   Thanks for all of your writing. I have your vaccination book and love it. It also has me wanting to learn more about herbs. I also appreciate you writing on vaccines especially being that it is such a controversial topic! So thank you from the bottom of my heart.


•   Love [your pregnancy book] already!! I have your Healthy Babies and Children book too and love it as well!! They are my little health bibles!! Thank you so much for writing them!!

•  My daughter is now 4 years old, but when I was pregnant with her, your books were a tremendous resource to me. Thank you so much for your advocacy work in the area of women’s health. A voice like yours is very much needed.

•  I had to write you and tell you how much I'm enjoying your book. There's so many times I say out loud, "Yes, Yes, Yes," regarding your wonderful insights and general thoughts about postpartum recovery.

•  We are 2 mothers living in Turkey who are deeply affected by your books. They have become essential in supporting our children’s health.

•  I love your books!!!! When are you coming to Brasil? Mi casa Es su CAsa!!!

•  I just want you to know how grateful I am for you and your work and how important the role it has played in my life…. At the very least, please allow me to express the importance you have played in my life, I truly want you to know that.