Lisa "Pipsissewa" Bedner,

R.N., R.H. (AHG)

Pipsissewa lives on a 23-acre farm in Nameless, Tennessee, where she grows herbs, produces herbal preparations, and cares for the native woods. Since 1987, she has owned and operated a greenhouse business which specializes in medicinal herbs and native species. Pipsissewa organically maintains all horticulture in the greenhouse and gardens with respect for the Earth Mother.

Positions, Education, and Certifications:

Invited reviewer of herbal texts for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

Medicine Woman of the Turtle Clan of the Teehahnahmah Nation

Certified as a Native American Herbal Medicine Practitioner by the American Herbalists Guild, currently the only peer-review organization in the United States for professional herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants.

Graduate of the Therapeutic Herbalism course in European herbal medicine presented by David L. Hoffmann, B.Sc. (Hons.), M.N.I.M.H.; 1995

Holds a current Registered Nurse license in Tennessee

Holds an Associates Degree in Nursing from Montgomery College of Takoma Park, Maryland; 1976

Medicine speaker for the Teehahnahmah and Western Cherokee Nations

Guest lecturer at Tennessee Technical University and Western Kentucky University

Author of The Simple Book Of Herbs published in 1995

Practicing clinical nursing for twenty-five years in Emergency, Critical Care, and Family Practice Medicine

Apprenticed 5 years with an Eastern Cherokee Medicine Man

Apprenticed 1 year with a Shoshone Medicine Woman

Apprenticed 1 year with a Teehahnahmah Medicine Man

Conducted 15 years of self study in many forms of Herbal Medicine

Attends ongoing workshops and classes in Herbal Medicine

Educational Director of the annual Folk Medicine Festival of Boiling Springs, TN; 1992-1998