Christopher Hobbs is a fourth-generation herbalist and botanist with 40 years of experience with herbs. Founder of Native Herb Custom Extracts (now Rainbow Light Custom Extracts) and the Institute for Natural Products Research. Christopher writes and lectures internationally on herbal medicine. He is a consultant to the herb industry and is currently practicing and working on a doctorate in biological sciences at Cal Berkeley.
He has become an acknowledged expert in the field, lecturing all over the U.S., and internationally in such countries as Canada, Great Britain, and Spain. Christopher’s specialties include herbs and the immune system; adaptogenic herbs, Native American uses of herbs, the pharmacology, and chemistry of herbal medicines, herbs for the liver, and the botany, and taxonomy of herbs.
Christopher has taught or lectured at universities and medical schools such as Stanford Medical School, Yale Medical School, Bastyr University, and the National School of Naturopathic Medicine; including ongoing classes at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Co-founder of the American Herbalists Guild, acupuncturist, rare book collector, and author of over 20 herbal books are also part of his impressive resume.
His 20 books include Peterson’s Field Guide to Medicinal Plants of the Western U.S., Women’s Herbs, Women’s Health (his most recent), and Herbal Remedies for Dummies.
We discuss learning about herbs, his upbringing, botany, answering a few member questions, and other odds and ends.