SAM COFFMAN, FOUNDER, HEAD INSTRUCTOR
Sam Coffman has over 10 years of military experience as a U.S. Special Forces Medic, an interrogator and a linguist. He studied botany and bioregional medicine both privately and at several outdoor schools in Colorado, and during his military service as a Green Beret Medic he logged thousands of hours in the field as a team medic, military emergency rooms and troop medical clinics.
Over the past 25 years, Sam has not only taught survival for military and civilian students, but also has focused on post-disaster and remote-medicine using primarily (if not exclusively) plant medicine. He has worked as a clinical herbalist on his own and in conjunction with functional medicine doctors (M.D. and D.O.) for chronic as well as acute illness and injury. Sam has been highly focused on bio-regional plant medicine for infection, injury and illness most commonly encountered in a post-disaster, remote or underserved environment when there is no higher definitive medical care.
Sam has taught wilderness first aid certification, remote and
post-disaster herbal medicine, urban and primitive survival skills
and self-defense for over two decades. He is co-founder of the
non-profit organization – Herbal Medics – that travels to remote
areas in Nicaragua as well as medically underserved urban areas in
the USA, providing herbal medicine clinics, off-grid and
salvage-based engineering solutions (water purification,
sustainable power, sustainable agriculture, etc.).
Sam is the author of the book The Herbal
Medic.
