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Publications and Educational Materials

A comprehensive list of books, courses and other educational materials developed by Steven Horne.

Sugar Bowel (Photo by Percy M. Horne)

Books

ABC Herbal, The
A simple guide to herbal remedies for children and families. Available through Amazon Books.

ABC's of Children's Health
Booklet, audio CD and brochure on children's remedies available from Sound Concepts.

Ancient Herbs: Modern Times
A short guide to NSP's Chinese herbal formulas. Out of Print. The material has been updated in the Secrets of Chinese Herbs course from Tree of Light. There is also a small booklet, CD and brochure available from Sound Concepts on this topic, too.

Circles of Light
A book of poetry. No longer in print, but can be downloaded as an ebook. Click here to download.

Comprehensive Guide to Commercial Herb Formulas
A guide to commercial herb formulas. No longer in print, but information from this book will be available for download at a later date.

The Comprehensive Guide to Nature's Sunshine Products
A useful guide to NSP's herbal formulas complete with historical uses, ingredients, usage information and warnings and contraindications. In print. Available through Tree of Light.

Constitutional Iridology
A consise guide to iridolgy as a means of constitutional assessment. Out of print. Material is now available in Practical Iridology course available from Tree of Light Publishing.

Endocrine Symphony, The
Discusses the seven glandular body types, pineal, pituitary, thyroid, thymus, adrenal, pancreatic and reproductive. Out of print. Coming soon as an ebook. Material will be part of Steven's new Health Assessment course.

Herbal Liquids and the TincTract Method (co-authored with L. Carl Robinson)
Booklet describing the TincTract method of herbal processing and the value of glycerine as an extraction medium for herbal products. Out of print.

Herbal Liquids for Children (co-authored with L. Carl Robinson and Dianne Murry)
Herbal formulas for children designed by Steven Horne and L. Carl Robinson. Out of print, but available for download at Tree of Light Website.

Natural Remedies for Common Health Conditions
Booklet featuring NSP products for common health conditions. Out of print, but available for download at the Tree of Light website.

Pain Relief without Medication book and video (co-authored with L. Carl Robinson)
Out of print, but material has been incorporated into Steven's Dr. Mom-Dr. Dad course.

Systematic Guide to Natural Remedies, The
Booklet featuring historical uses of NSP products. Replaced by the Consumer's Guide above. Also available for download at the Tree of Light website.

Traditional Chinese Medicine
Booklet, audio CD and brochure available from Sound Concepts.

Understanding Chinese Constitutional Herbology
Booklet on NSP's Chinese herbal formulas. Out of print.

Whole Body Cleansing
Booklet, audio CD and brochure on cleansing with Nature's Sunshine Products available from Sound Concepts.

Coursework Developed

Certified Herbal Consultant (CHC) Program

Consists of the following eight courses available from Tree of Light Publishing.

Dr. Mom-Dr. Dad: Primary Healthcare Begins in the Home
A course in the basic tools for natural health care in the home. Teaches how to relieve pain and reverse the damage in many common injuries in minutes, how to get rid of colds, sore throats, fevers, earaches, and other acute ailments, usually in hours, and the basics for keeping yourself and your family healthy.

The ABC+D Approach to Natural Health Consulting
A course in the basics of natural health consulting using the Activate, Build, Cleanse and Direct Aid model. Explains the Disease Tree and the body system's approach to selecting appropriate supplements to help others improve their health. Builds on the foundational concepts in Dr. Mom-Dr. Dad.

Practical Iridology
An iridology course focusing on how to assess a person's constitutional strengths and weaknesses in the iris of the eye. This is a unique approach to reading eyes that teaches a person how to start with the general patterns and then move to more specific details. Helps a person discover what is significant and most important to pay attention to when reading the iris.

Practical Tools for Health Assessment
A course in glandular body typing, muscle testing, tongue and pulse analysis as tools for assessing a person's health needs.

Nature's Pharmacy
This course contains basic information on over 300 herbs, including the 168 herbs selected seven years ago by top herbalists in the American Herbalists Guild as the most important herbs for herbalists to know. It teaches 12 energetic patterns to herbal remedies, basic plant chemistry and .

Herbal Preparations and Applications
Come into Steven's kitchen via DVD and learn how to make herbal prepartions like tinctures, glycerites, salves, poultices, etc. and creative methods of applying herbs in baths, enemas, fomentations, compresses and more.

Activating the Healing Response
This course is an in-depth look at the nervous and glandular system. The nervous and glandular systems are the control systems of the body. They help regulate all the other processes of the body through three types chemical messengers endocrine hormones, paracrine hormones (which include neurotransmitters) and autocrine hormones. This course discusses how these chemical messengers work and how to balance them using herbs, nutrition and other natural means.

Secrets of Chinese Herbs
Co-authored with K.P. Khalsa this course offers an in-depth look at Nature's Sunshine's Chinese herb formulas and an overview of the principles of traditional Chinese medicine.

Out of Print course

The following course are out of print, but will be available soon for download in an e-book format.

Master of Holistic Healing course
This comprehensive course provided basic training in herbs, nutrition, herbal energetics, iridology, muscle testing, body systems, consulting and emotional healing. Out of print.

Tools for Healing: Body, Mind and Spirit course
This course discussed emotional healing using flower essences, aromatherapy, question affirmations and a unique emotional map of the body based on the tree of life. Out of print.

Health Through Nutrition course
A brief introduction to herbs and nutrition. Out of print.

Other Materials and Publications

Herbal Hour Videos
Nature’s Field Journal (editor and contributing author for 22 years)
Sunshine Sharing newsletter (editor and contributing author for 18 years)
HealthWise video series (host)
Back Issues CD of Nature’s Field and Sunshine Sharing (project overseer)
SunHerb Computer Database**
Contributed data for Herb Librarian Computer Program
Contributed data for PlanetHerb Computer Program