When William died he left thousands of pages of written material, hundreds of hours of cassette and video tape. If you knew William, you'll know the depth of his knowledge and our hope to capture a fragment of that information.

The process of preserving and publishing this legacy is ongoing. In this space, the Archive will be making available some audio and video material from William's years with us.

Proceeds from the sale of this material go directly to supporting future publication of William's work, and it is our only source of income. Thank you for your support!

PLEASE NOTE: We’re working now on making a better Store page, so you can order multiple items more easily. Until then, when it’s possible to ship multiple items together we’ll do so and send you back the difference in shipping. Thanks for your patience.
(Posters and CD sets must still be shipped separately, due to their extremely different shapes.)

2010 OFFERING

This CD set is the March session of William’s last teaching series, organized by Claudia Keel in New York City. See the notes below for a glimpse of topics discussed.

The seminar was held in New York in 2002, just a year before William’s death. He’s recorded with a small group of students, the third meeting in a series of six, sharing diagnostic techniques, theory and specific herb use.

The original recordings are missing about two hours due to a taping glitch, so this series comes in at 10 hrs 2 min, slightly shorter than our other sets.

As usual, the “bookshelf” case includes extensive notes for ease of later reference. (See excerpts below…)

There are details of William’s manhole cover paintings on the case, and a photo from the year of the seminar. The discs themselves are abstracted versions of the manhole covers, through which to go… deeper…

EXCERPTS FROM THE LINER NOTES:

Track 1 (46 min.): liver herbs, vervain, sage, bupleurum, premenstrual remedies, Jamaican dogwood, Wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus) for liver torpor, liver cough.

Track 2 (23 min.): liver cough, invading lungs, Wahoo (cont’d), Jamaican dogwood, migraines, olive oil, importance of pain.

Track 1 (23 min.): Parkinson’s question, gallbladder, armoring, boundaries, release work, emotional expression, black root, hepatitis C, liver & gallbladder voices, toadflax.

Track 2 (46 min.): liver/gallbladder pathologies, toadflax, acne, headaches, celandine to purge fire, fringe tree, buldo, digesting herbal preparation, hallucinogens, lungs/liver/gallbladder/spleen palpation and diagnostic techniques.

Track 1 (23 min): facial types, fire symptoms and pathologies, headaches… (NEXT DAY:) kidneys, elk antlers, preparation of herbs.

Track 2 (46 min): kidneys and bones and joints, ligaments and gallbladder, foods for kidneys, beans and seeds, game meat, endocrine system, diuretics: irritating (juniper berries, cockleburr, aromatic oils), protectant (marshmallow, flax), neutral (nettles, plantain), non-irritating (cleavers, gravel root).

Track 1 (46 min): 5 element cultivation, face types, kidney qi deficiency, low back, ginseng, sha wu, winterworm/cordyceps, eclipta, cornus, schizandra, ginger, skullcap, milky oat seeds, cornsilk… (LUNCH)… kidney yin deficiency, tinnitus, rehmannia six, codonopsis,cornus, Solomon’s seal, saw palmetto, lyceum, schizandra.

Track 2 (23 min.): kidney yin herbs, kidney qi, yin and yang deficiency, cold, signs and symptoms, differentiation and causes, patents and herbs: warming (aconite, processed ginseng, cassia, roasted ginger), building (dodder, fenugreek, black sesame).

Track 1 (23 min.): kidney yang tonic: building/neutral (dodder, chia seeds, alisma, nettles, schizandra, deer antler), warming the womb (cassia, saw palmetto, schizandra, alisma, w. paeony), fertility (false unicorn root, Jamaican sarsparilla, greenbriar, persimmon, wild yam), warming (saw palmetto, fenugreek), pregnancy.

Track 2 (46 min.): fertility, ovulation, low back pain, oils for traumas, arnica, DMSO, angelica, California poppy.

2007 CD OFFERING

We're going on now to an Herbwalk seminar from July 1991 (Set Number 11 of 20), a two-part set of 10 CDs. See the notes below for a glimpse of the wide-ranging topics covered.

This seminar was given in Massachusetts and is one of three Herbwalks we have in the Archive. It documents William teaching where he most liked to be: camping in the forest, among the Green Ones. There are some indoor sessions, some outdoors, and (thank you Ann Mooney) even a lunchtime dialog.

The discs are Archival Audio, including one session during a thunderstorm. Great ambiance.

The protective “bookshelf” case includes extensive notes on topics discussed, making location of material for later reference as simple as using a book index. (See excerpts below…)

There are two fragments of William's “Manhole Cover” paintings on the case, and a photo from the year of the seminar. The discs themselves are abstracted versions of the manhole covers, through which to go… deeper…

We've had to raise the price of these sets slightly, with the experience of the first round of shipping, etc. Still a bargain, and still all volunteer. Our goal is simply to get the information out into the world.

EXCERPTS FROM THE LINER NOTES:

Track 1 (23 min.): Ulcers, stomach acid, slippery elm, stress, wild oat seed, chamomile, skullcap, diet.

Track 2 (46 min.): Diet, lung, Tang Xi Gong, bupleurum, sedatives, herpes, strengthening lungs, hyssop, anemia, building blood, nettles and rehmannia, nail diagnosis for the blood, questions in diagnosis, yin deficiency, liver/gall bladder imbalance and chronic fatigue, hormonal imbalances, diet.

Track 1 (25 min.): Facial diagnosis practicum continued, lung signs, more five element signs, inherited/genetic factors, students read William's face.

Track 2 (25 min.): Students read William's face (continued), William does his own reading; qualities in facial features, organ/five element issues, colon, immune system, excretory functions, Crohn's disease, candida.

Track 1 (22 min.): Candida, formula preparation, tinctures vs. formulas, pimples: from toxicity, blood heat/PH imbalance, or small intestine imbalance.

Track 2 (46 min.): Berberis, skin problems, hormonal/menstrual-related acne, green clay compress, sliced onion and moxa, stories from William's practice, nervous/adrenal issues, taking patient histories, grief, lungs, talking with the basic selves.

Track 1 (46 min.): Birth trauma, asthma, cayenne and mullein, organ energetics, ancestral and constitutional issues, ginseng, iridology.

Track 2 (23 min.): Tonifying lungs, questions, nervines: chamomile, skullcap, motherwort, hawthorn; glandular and hormonal interrelationships, menopause, making herbal preparations.

Track 1 (22 min.): Preparations and extractions, nervines, spilanthes, bowel nervines: wild cherry, evening primrose, coriander, laxative formula; aromatics, kidney issues.

Track 2 (46 min.): (Outdoor Session:) Uterine nervines, pain. William interviews students: recommendations for tonifying wei qi, stimulating gall bladder.

OUR FIRST OFFERING

We're beginning with one of the later seminars (Number 15 out of 20), Lectures from January 2002 in a two-part set of 12 CDs. See the notes below for a glimpse of the wide-ranging topics covered.

This seminar begins the last series that William taught, sharing the rich amalgam of his 30 years accumulated wealth of knowledge with an intimate group of students in New York.

The discs are Archival Audio, recorded “rough in the field”, capturing William's style and wit in free-ranging discussions and lectures. We have enhanced the recordings somewhat and added brief musical grace-notes to improve continuity between tapes, or when gaps resulted from tape-to-digital transfer.

The protective "bookshelf" case includes extensive notes on topics discussed, making location of material for later reference as simple as using a book index. (See excerpts below…)

There are two fragments of William's “Manhole Cover” paintings on the cover, and as our offerings progress we'll be using photos of William keyed in time to the Audio within. The discs themselves are abstracted versions of the manhole covers, many little black-and-white plates, through which to go… deeper…..

EXCERPTS FROM THE LINER NOTES:

Track 1 (46 min.): Introductions, climactic elements, lungs and Po, congenital qi deficiency, assessing lung qi, palpation, lung yin deficiency, allergies and aversion responses.

Track 2 (23 min): Allergies, bee-sting therapy, basics of the Chinese origin of the Triangle system, astringent tonics, upper respiratory tonics, aromatics, goldenrod.

Track 1 (23 min.): Bee-sting therapy, allergies, wind-cold and wind-heat pathology, symptoms and remedies.

Track 2 (46 min.): Wind-heat and wind-cold continued, relative strength of herbs in formulas, phlegm and mucous obstructions, juniper for phlegm removal, prevention of environmental diseases, high-altitude assistance, removal of resins, osha root, anaphylactic shock, fingernail & finger diagnosis.

Track 1 (45 min.): Acid reflux, soothing esophagus, protecting and repairing the upper GI lining, heat, blood heat, blood purifiers, skin problems.

Track 2 (23 min.): Blood Purifiers (cont'd), building blood to clean blood, ear infections, toxicity, dental issues, diurnal patterns, tonics, reactions to herbs, story about mandrake as a purgative, ginseng.

Track 1 (23 min.): Ginseng (cont'd), vomiting, emetics, toxic remedies and reference material for same.

Track 2 (46 min.): Toxic purgatives, aromatic oils, thuja, healing with food and lifestyle, endocrine imbalances and insufficiencies, schisandra (wu wei zhe), Chinese methods of processing herbs, joints, connective tissue and yoga, gotu kola.

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