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Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND

Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND runs a herbal consulting clinic and school full-time. Additionally, she offers her courses online to students in many different countries around the globe. She has been a healer since 1993 and has been a teacher since 1986. Ms. Burns is a naturopath, certified in iridology, reflexology, aromatherapy, herbal healing, IET (Integrated Energy Therapy), and homeopathic first aid. She is also skilled in dream interpretation and the theory and practice of human temperament and typology.

Ms. Burns has been interested in natural living and natural remedies since she was a young girl growing up in Iowa. However, it was not until her childhood ailments became serious that she started formal studies in the field of herbology and naturopathy. As a child she was plagued with environmental allergies, asthma, depression, mood swings and behavior disorders. By the time she reached high school the only way she could find relief from her problems was by taking daily medications. After suffering the side effects of these heavy medications through high school and most of college she finally set off on her own quest to find a cure. By this time her asthma had put her in the hospital once and her conditions were "out of control".

Ms. Burns' cure finally started in the ancient Souks (markets) of Cairo where she met with some of the famous Attar (traditional healers & herbalists) who had been healing with herbs and nature for hundreds of years and had passed down the art to their children over many generations. They shared with her many of their secrets, many of which she was able to use to help herself. She spent the next six years in Cairo working as a photo-journalist and did many stories on the natural healers of the region as a way of further exploring the craft. When she returned to the United States six years later natural healing had become a part of everyday life.


To fill in the gaps her mentors had left in her apprenticeship training she went back to school to formally study natural healing. She started by earning her Certificate in Homeopathy in 1993, and then a Certificate in Aromatherapy in 1994. She started pursing formal studies to gain her Masters in Herbalism and a Naturopathic Doctorate in 1996. In 1999 she earned a Certificate in Iridology. She lectures at and attends seminars around the world on the topic of natural healing.