Speaker: Paul Bergner. Above all, treat the whole person on all levels, not just the painful area. Employ herbal medicines and other vitalist remedies such as hydrotherapy, bodywork, homeopathy and flower essences to address pain. Any herb, even a simple nutritive herb, is a "pain" herb if it corrects the underlying cause. Conventional drugs do a better job of eliminating the physical pain, but when considering the whole pain complex, herbal formulas do a better job of addressing the whole experience of pain with far fewer side effects. The remainder of the lecture addresses principles for formulation; a pain formula = anodyne(s) + antispasmodics + nervine(s) + hypnotic(s) + antidepressants as appropriate.