Wednesday, April 29, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SHS grad finds a calling as herbalist
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100th birthday celebration...
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Jaimee Simundson, Sisters
High School graduate, class
of 2015, is applying her pas-
sion for nature and plants
to her career and business.
Simundson is a certified clin-
ical herbalist with her own
self-named business, Jaimee
Simundson: Herbalist.
Simundson recently
started up her own business
speaking to clients virtually.
<I treat the consultation
as a sort of interview and
get to know the patient and
their health history,= said
Simundson.
She then creates a custom-
ized formula particular to that
patient and their needs.
Simundson makes custom
blends of herbs in the form of
teas, tinctures, syrups and oil
herb blends for whatever their
going through.
<I check-in monthly with
my clients and see how
they9re doing on what I9ve
made for them,= she said.
Simundson works with
other practitioners in the
medical field to see how cer-
tain herbs might interact with
other medications, and makes
sure that what she gives her
client is going to work for
them.
Simundson has always
had a passion for plants and
nature and the Earth.
<I love to feel empowered
by working with plants. I feel
like right now especially,
holistic herbal medicine is
more accessible than people
realize because it comes from
plants and the earth,= she
said.
Simundson not only
makes custom blends for
her clients, she has begun to
create products to sell to the
general public that pretty
much anyone can use. She
recently came out with two
blends during this time of
isolation called <Stay Home=
and <Stay Calm= which are
blends of herbs and oils in
order to remain calm and cen-
tered during this time.
<I really enjoy it and its
fun for me because it feels
PHOTO BY CEILI CORNELIUS
Jaimee Simundson, a 2015 Sisters High School graduate, got her start in
herbalism after an internship where she learned the power of herbs.
like making potions,= she
said.
Simundson got her start
in herbalism after doing an
internship with Herb Pharm,
an herbal extract company in
Williams, Oregon. Here, she
learned the power of herbs
and learned what herbal-
ism is and how it can be a
profession.
<It was a really empow-
ering time of learning about
healing in a holistic way from
plants and earth,= she said. <I
have always loved using sup-
port from plants as an alter-
native to prescription drugs.
You can grow it for yourself
and make medicine for your-
self and I loved connecting to
the land in that way.=
Simundson never thought
she would be an herbal-
ist and do it as a career.
She worked with Angelina
Skincare in Bend working
with some herbs and natu-
ral things to create skincare,
but she wanted to further
that type of work. After the
internship with Herb Pharm,
she attended <herb school=
at the Hawthorn Institute in
Williams to become a certi-
fied clinical herbalist.
At herb school, she started
seeing clients and realized
that people really want this
kind of medicine and practi-
tioners right now.
<I took a bit of a leap of
faith and I knew I had a pur-
pose and the knowledge and
people want it,= she said.
There are many types of
herbalists and her role as a
clinical herbalist uses a lot
of science; she can prescribe
herbs for certain medical
ailments, both mental and
physical.
Her passion comes from
growing up in Central Oregon
where there is a deep sense of
place and appreciation for the
land.
<Herbalism is not a super-
regulated profession, but it
is like folk medicine 4 the
medicine of the people and
the Earth,= she said.
<I really see it as a honor
to be an herbalist and help
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100th birthday go unnoticed. On April 23, they organized a
drive-by birthday greeting at her home east of Sisters. Some 20
vehicles paraded down her street and through her driveway as
friends waved, called out greetings and dropped off flowers, cards
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