{"podcast":{"title":"The Holistic Herbalism Podcast","slug":"the-holistic-herbalism-podcast-446911","podcast_index_feed_id":446911,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/176553.rss","website_url":"https://commonwealthherbs.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/sawb3mnxri1kijja3xo1ht8ykyrz?.jpg","author":"CommonWealth Holistic Herbalism","episode_count":296,"summary":"Practical herbalism from practicing herbalists. Conversations, botanical deep-dives, Q&A with clinical herbalists Katja Swift & Ryn Midura of CommonWealth Holistic Herbalism.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T14:18:58.806412+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holistic-herbalism-podcast-446911"},"episode":{"title":"Don't Choose Herbs \"For\" A Diagnosis - Do This Instead","slug":"don-t-choose-herbs-for-a-diagnosis-do-this-instead","published_at":"2026-06-07T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holistic-herbalism-podcast-446911/don-t-choose-herbs-for-a-diagnosis-do-this-instead","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holistic-herbalism-podcast-446911","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/176553/episodes/19308630-don-t-choose-herbs-for-a-diagnosis-do-this-instead.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/176553/episodes/19308630-don-t-choose-herbs-for-a-diagnosis-do-this-instead.mp3","summary":"When we’re choosing herbs to help someone, knowing their medical diagnosis isn’t enough: we don’t choose herbs for a diagnosis. As herbalists, we actually need more information! A medical diagnosis is a specialized vocabulary which creates a shorthand so that people who already know what it means, how it happens, and how to fix it, can speak more efficiently about (whatever it is). It’s not an objective truth, though: it’s a descriptive label that is useful in a specialized context. Herbalism...","meta_description":"When we’re choosing herbs to help someone, knowing their medical diagnosis isn’t enough: we don’t choose herbs for a diagnosis. As herbalists, we actually…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2356,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-holistic-herbalism-podcast-446911/episodes/don-t-choose-herbs-for-a-diagnosis-do-this-instead/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holistic-herbalism-podcast-446911/don-t-choose-herbs-for-a-diagnosis-do-this-instead.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}