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Healer J. Mark Taylor, Medical Herbalist

NOTICE: Help Mark achieve his acupuncture clinical hours here in Calgary as he trains-up to become an acupuncture specialist. Come see Mark Taylor for acupuncture at the BodyMind Synergy Health Centre.

Mark Taylor is one of Canada's most highly-trained practicing herbalists and is an advocate nationally for promoting the development of holistic institutions and Alternative-health legislation. Mark has been healing people as a professional herbalist for the last twenty+ years.

As a Master Herbalist, Mark operates the Traditional Herbal Medicine apothecary located within the Arcady Holistic site.

As a Medical Herbalist (aka Clinical Herbalist), Mark evaluates and assesses new patients as they enter Arcady Holistic's integrated health programs. With over seven years of post-graduate training by Dominion Herbal College [North America's only accredited institution licensed to teach the British herbal-medicine degree program] Mark offers alternative herb-based solutions to today's myriad of medical problems.

• Herbal medicine is used to positively affect organs and tissues in a deliberate and healing manner.

Toxins play a large part in the production of disease in Alternative health as much disease stems from poisons in our food, air, and water. Toxin elimination is important because absorbed toxins hinder proper body function thereby creating morbid conditions which predispose to disease. Eliminate the toxins and you eliminate the disease.

Herbal medicine as practiced by a professional herbalist is used to feed the body and restore health by improving natural functions within the body over time. More health means less disease.

"I am a Healer, meaning that I work through natural means to improve health and well-being while they, the medicos, suppress symptoms. We are at completely opposite ends of the health-care spectrum. Further, I have moral constraints: no animal experimentation; only health-promoting treatments; tried & true practices proven over hundreds of years; and the use of simple, natural (not exotic) substances."

Healer J. Mark Taylor, Medical Herbalist, is a member of the Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia, the Ontario Herbalist Association (Professional Member #020462), and the Green Party of Canada. In Nova Scotia, Mark was a member of Citizens for Choice in Health Care and the Nova Scotia Allergy and Environmental Health Association. Mark was on the Holistic Therapies Advisory Committee of Mount Royal College (MRC) in Calgary. He also taught within MRC's Centre for Complementary Health Education such courses as Materia Medica, Integrated Studies, Herbal Manufacturing, and Clinical Practicum. Mark was a former health advisor the the Green Party, and was a certification inspector for the Nova Scotia Organic Growers Association. He has a BA degree in Economics, and is a graduate of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) phytotherapy program (Dip.Phyto) -- the most respected herbal therapy program in the English-speaking world. Mark is accredited as an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), a Chartered Herbalist, a Master Herbalist, a Registered Herbalist, and a Clinical Herbal Therapist.

"A four-year degree to become learned, a year to become a herbalist, two more years to become a Master Herbalist, four more years to become a clinically-trained Medical Herbalist, and now working on THREE more years to become an acupuncture specialist! Fourteen years in the making and now available in Calgary. They say in some parts that people can die of too much education ... I'm starting to get worried."

J. Mark Taylor ran as the Green Party of Canada candidate for Calgary East in the 2006 federal election, and ran as the Alberta Greens candidate for Calgary-Fort in the 2008 provincial election. Check out Mark's personal website.

Mark's herbalist pages.

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