Herbalist
The Sacandaga Herbalist
Wendy L. Keeney-Kennicutt, Ph.D.
Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt is a community herbalist and the Associate Director of the First Year Chemistry Program at Texas A&M University, located in College Station, Texas. Wendy is the originator of two natural aloe vera-based herbal skin creams: Dr. Wendy’s Wrinkle Warrior and Dr. Wendy’s Sacandaga Balm Squad. She splits her time between working with her 500+ students and helping people and their pets locally and across the country in their search for better health through herbs and supplements. Although she has attended many workshops and intensives on herbalism since 1990, her strength as an herbalist is based on her gift as an intuitive healer in addition to her knowledge.
Wendy grew up in Watertown N.Y. and attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, earning a B.Sc. with first class honours in chemistry in 1972. After spending 1 year in VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), she returned to Queen’s, received her M.Sc. in chemistry, spent months traveling through Mexico and Central America, ending up earning her Ph.D. in Chemistry Oceanography at Texas A&M University in 1982. After 2 years as a research scientist, Wendy began her teaching career. At that time, she noticed her health was declining; she was getting strep throat several times a year and antibiotics weren’t helping. She developed the first stages of cervical cancer, which luckily was discovered early and surgically removed. Wendy had mononucleosis and fibrocystic disease, was constantly anemic and because of iron supplements, was constantly constipated. Because of allergies, she was daily taking prescription antihistamines and cortisone nasal spray. Her stomach was always upset and she was exhausted. The only thing that could pull her out of bed every morning was knowing she had to teach her students. Emotionally, she was a wreck and sinking into depression. That was 1993. Wendy was desperate, but the medical profession kept telling her she was fine. She knew she was in trouble.
Wendy then met a local herbalist and began a slow, steady journey toward better health. In August of 1998 she was diagnosed by a Chinese medicine practitioner with having breast cancer, verified using mammography and ultrasound. By this time, she was dedicated to getting well with herbs and vitamin/mineral supplements; she persisted on her herbal program and was declared cancer-free in December, 1999. Through this entire process of healing, Wendy discovered her intuitive gift for helping others using herbs. She resides on 6 acres of naturalized Texas land outside College Station with her husband, two dogs and two cockatiels.
You can visit her herbal website at www.WendyTheHerbalist.com, email her at wendy@wendytheherbalist.com
and visit her Texas A&M website at www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/kennicutt.
