ABSTRACT
Sharol Tilgner is a licensed naturopathic physician in Eugene, Oregon. She founded and, at the time of this interview, was the president of Wise Woman Herbals, Inc., an eleven-year-old company that supplies more than 300 herbal products to health care practitioners. Sharol was the director of the Portland Naturopathic Clinic pharmacy for two years. She also spent three years molding an old cattle ranch into an organic herb farm that is now called Shalimar Gardens. She is an associate editor of Medical Herbalism and has produced two herbal videos titled Edible and Medicinal Herbs, Volumes I (1991) and II (1993). Sharol lectures at various colleges and conferences across the United States. She also promotes and sponsors the Pacific NW Herbal Symposium each spring. Her most recent contribution to the herbal world is her book Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth (1999). She is currently working on a new herbal video series, teaching classes, and developing a new herbal educational farm, Wise Acres.
