Shari B. Kaplan, LCSWIntegrative Mental Health

A Mother’s Journey Into Integrative Mental Health

8 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this first-person testimonial, Shari B. Kaplan, LCSW, recounts how her son’s birth with a central nervous system disorder propelled her to study neuroanatomy and explore plant medicine. She explains that she sought plants capable of stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and down‑regulating the sympathetic nervous system, leading her to develop custom herbal formulas—including cannabis—for her son. Kaplan claims that these interventions have eliminated his brain damage, brought his movement disorder under control, and kept his seizures fully controlled as long as he remains on the cannabis‑based regimen.

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I had no intention of going into psychedelics. I did not. When my son was born with a central nervous system disorder, I actually studied neuroanatomy, which is how I got into like firing and wiring the brain and the body. Right. And plant medicine. So I figured plants can also stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system and downregulate the sympathetic nervous system. So I started Studying studies on what plants did that, and I made formulas for him. He had brain damage, he had seizures, he had a movement disorder. Brain damage is gone. Movement disorder is under control. Seizure disorder, as long as he stays on his cannabis and his herbal formula, 100% under control.