Blazing Star Herbal School

Still a few spots for 2013::Therapeutic Herbalism Apprenticeship 2013- for advanced intermediate students and beyond

Please join us in 2013 to continue your studies in Herbalism. This program is aimed at the self motivated student who has completed at least a 9 month intensive program in Herbalism and has had some self study experience.

 

 

This program meets on alternate Thursdays from 9:30 until 3:00pm starting on April  18th 2013 and continuing through Feb 2014. Weekly study groups with peers stongly encouraged.

Though there is a lot of lecture time in this program,  plant connection, meditation, creativity  and medicine making still feature strongly! The Self Care and Deep Nourishment theme explored in great detail during the Beginner Apprenticeship will continue to feature strongly as it is my belief that this is the foundation of good health! There will also be a strong focus on deepening our relationship with plants and we will be studying how several indigenous cultures around the world use plants for healing the spirit as well as the body.

illness is seen as a messenger of disconnection rather than a condition. The goal of the traditional shaman is often not to cure a condition but to remove its cause by restoring in the patient the sense of balance, harmony and reconnection to the sacred and the Earth. It is in the Spirit of the traditional Shaman that I offer this work. 

This program is broken down into the following  study modules:

Module 1 

 -Introduction to Clinical Herbalism, Discussion of Resources, Understanding the requirements and format of this course.

 -Plant Pharmacology, discussion of the constituents Alkaloids, Glycosides, lipids, Phenols, Polysaccharides, Tannins, Terpenoids, essential oils, saponins. From this discussion students should be able to learn to extrapolate the common medicinal uses from plants based on its constituents. In this section we will also cover dosing in regards to specific considerations such as pediatric, geriatric, Hepatic, effects of smoking and oral contraceptives.

 -Medicinal Terminology used to describe the medicinal properties of plants.

 -Immunology, Pathologies of the Immune System- Auto-immunity, Bacterial viral infections, CFS, Fever, Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Lymes

-Detailed Materia- Medica and Review: Immuno-stimulant Mushrooms, Echinacea, Astragalus, Poke Root, Berberine Containing Herbs, Wild Indigo, Willow Bark, Red Clover,  Lycii berries, Teasel

 -Intro to Case Taking and Peer Reviews

Module 2

-The Gastro Intestinal System: a brief overview of the system,  Gastro-esophageal reflux disease, Gastric/duodenal ulceration, Gall Bladder dysfunction, Hepatitis, Crohn's, Ulcerative colitis, IBS, Parasites, Constipation/Diarrhea, Hemorrhoids

-Detailed Materia- Medica and Review:: Artichoke, Bitter Orange, Catnip, Chamomile, Peppermint, Fennel, Astringents, Bitters, Anththraquinone Laxatives, Meadow sweet, Licorice, Marshmallow, Slippery Elm, Mugwort, Chamomile, Milk Thistle, Wild Yam, Dandelion Root, Grains

- Foods Politics  &  Nourishing Traditions

- Case Studies, and peer review 

Module 4

The Musculo Skeletal System: Understanding bone, connective tissue cardiac and smooth skeletal muscles, Arthritis (osteo, rheumatoid, gout)

Osteoporosis, Injuries, Fibromyalgia 

-Detailed Materia- Medica and Review:Comfrey, Arnica, The azulene containing plants, Solomon Seal, Black Cohosh, White Poplar,  Essential Oils, Willow Bark, Osmunda

- Case Studies, and peer review

- Integration Clinical Aromatherapy 

Module 4

- The Respiratory System: Asthma, Sinusitis, bronchitis (Chronic, Acute) Hayfever, Allergic Rhinnitis, Occupational Respiratory Disease, Sore Throat, Cough, Colds, Chronic Obstructive airway disease

-Detailed Materia- Medica and Review:- Mullein,  Golden Rod, Coltsfoot, Wild cherry,  Osha, Eucalyptus, Elecampane,  Lobelia, Wild Lettuce, Balm Of Giliad, Grindelia, Sun Dew, Thyme, Elder

- Case Studies, and peer review

- Integration Flower Essence Therapy

Module 5

The Cardiovascular System-Hypertension, Myocardial infarction, Coronary artery disease, Atherosclerosis, Peripheral vascular disease, congestive heart failure

 -Detailed Materia- Medica review: Hawthorne Lily of the Valley, Garlic, Prickly Ash, Dandelion leaf, Ginger, Motherwort, Valarian, Amni Visnaga, Gingko, Gotu Kola, Bilberry

 

 Module 6

 -The Nervous System: Depression & anxiety, Headaches, Migraines Stress, ADHD, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuralgia, Sleep Disorders, Alzheimers

-Detailed Materia- Medica and Review:: Skullcap, Passion Flower, St. John’s Wort, Hops,  Ginseng, California Poppy, Feverfew, Clematis (Virgins Bower) , Kava, Kava, Belladona Containing plants, Indian Pipe,  Jamaican Dogwood, Agrimony, Wood Betony, Blue Vervain,  Linden Blossom

- Case Studies, and peer review 

Module  7

-The Endocrine System: Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Adrenal Insufficiency, Hypo/Hyper Thyroidism

 -Detailed Materia- Medica and review:Siberian Ginseng, Nettles, Devils club, Seaweeds, Bugleweed, Melissa, Gymnema, Chickweed, Wild Carrot, Ashwaghanda, Blue Flag

 - Creating Treatment Plans (for acute and chronic conditions)

 - Case Studies, and peer review

- Integration Gems and Crystal Therapy

Module 8

-The Integumentary system (Skin): Excema, Psoriasis, Acne, Fungal Infections, Contact dermatitis Burns, Rashes.

-Detailed Materia- Medica and review:-Burdock, Calendula, Blood root, Tea Tree, aloe Vera, plantain, sarsparilla, Self Heal, Ground Ivy, Yellow dock

 -The Urinary System: Kidney Stones, Cystitis/ interstitial cystitis, incontinence, prostatis,

-Detailed Materia- Medica and Review: diuretics and their mode of action, Cranberry, Buchu, Juniper, Gravel Root, Cornsilk, Uva Ursi, Saw Palmetto

- Case Studies, and peer review

Module 9

-Reproductive System: Menstrual Cycle & problems, Polycystic ovary disease, Endometriosis,  Candidiasis, Vaginitis, Pregnancy and possible disorders of, Breast, Uterine, cervical cancer, Fibroids.

-Detailed Materia- Medica and Review:Vitex, Raspberry Leaf, Evening Primrose and other GLA containing oils, Black Haw Cramp Bark, Blue Cohosh,  Yarrow, Partridge Berry, Shepherds Purse, Dong Quai, Lady’s Mantle

- Completion of Case Studies, and peer review

 

*** Pre-requisites for this program are to have completed the beginner apprenticeship at BSHS or an equivalent such program ***

 

 The cost of this program is $1750. A deposit of $250 is necessary to hold your spot. We accept personal checks and payment through paypal. Monthly payment plans.

Therapeutic Herbalism

Deposit$250.00 USD Full Payment$1,750.00 USD Payment after deposit$1,500.00 USD

                                                                          

Apprentice Year 1 & 2 Reading List and Supply List 2013

 

Required Texts for Beginner Apprentieship:

Making Plant Medicine by Richo Chec

Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies  by Julie Bruton-Seal

Healing Wise (Wise Woman Herbal Series)Susun Weed

The Complete Herbal Tutor: A Structured Course to Achieve Professional Expertise  by Anne McIntyre

 

Required Texts for Second Year Program :

The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism: Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification  by Matthew Wood

The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants by Matthew Wood

The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants  by Matthew Wood

 The Way of Ayurvedic Herbs: A Contemporary Introduction and Useful Manual for the World's Oldest Healing System by Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa and Michael Tierra

 

 

Everyone will need a local plant fieldguide. If you do not already have one I recommend this

A Field Guide to Wildflowers : Northeastern and North-Central North America (Peterson Field Guides)

 

All apprentices must pick 4 of the following books to read and write a book report on.(Guidelines will be given in class) 

 

The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Harrod Buhner

The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner

 Partner Earth Pam Montgomery

 The Language of Plants- Julia Graves 

Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness by Pam Montgomery

Invasive Plant Medicine: The Ecological Benefits and Healing Abilities of Invasives by Timothey Smith

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World -Paul Stamets

 Medicinal Mushrooms by Christopher Hobbs

Women as Healer by Jeanne Achterberg 

 Creative Visualization Shakti Gawain

 

 

 

Other supplies required for Apprenticeships:

Garden Supplies:

- EZ digger

- Hori Hori

- Pruner 

- Trowl

(If you are not sure what these are you can find them here and at your local garden store)

- Pocket Knife (I love high carbon Opinels)

- Start collecting glass jars with lids all sizes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Words from the Apprentices About the Apprenticeship

I am very happy to say that as an apprentice I have learned how to identify many new plants and have become better friends with those that I already knew about. I am able to make oils, vinegars, honeys, salves, lotions, medicinal tea infusions, elixers and tinctures. I have learned how to take time to draw and sit with plants, meditate and make mandalas, come up with a health plan for myself that entails a true understanding of the word nourishment! I very enthusiastically recommend this apprenticeship to anyone I know! Anyone who is interested in learning more about identifying plants, using them in self care, and wanting to ensure that their lifestyle as an herbalist is practical and can be applied in daily nourishing ways with themselves and people they know- would benefit greatly from the apprenticeship. I really wish I could take it again next year!

-N. from Northampton

To put my exeperience as an Apprentice is a rather impossible task. I have learned so much, and experienced so much, that to truly do it justice would take several hours. Yet what I can say is that I have learned more about myself, and more about the natural world in this short year, than I ever expected too. My connection to the earth and to myself is so strong as a result of this course, that I shall forever be grateful. I am more intune with my body than I think I have ever been, and my heart is lighter and happier than I can ever remember it being. Tony is a wonderful teacher who is clear, conscise and passionate. My sisters in the practice are each unique and insightful and have brough much joy wisdom and perspective to my new life. My apprenticeship has also evolved my spiritualiy and allowed me to connect better and stronger to my family to my friends, and to my community as a whole. I am def continuing to the second Level, and my intentions are to start my own medicinal farm, and spread the knowledge and healing as my life's work. Blazing Star Earth Ninja's for LIFE!

In Love and Eternal Gratitude -A.from Dalton

My experience as an apprentice at Blazing Star Herbal School has been one of magical awakening and an even deeper appreciation of the plant world. I have taken quite a few herb classes over the years from correspondence courses to a 5 month intensive as well as community college courses and this one is by far THE BEST! The thing I feel most gives this apprenticeship the edge over the rest and sets it apart from all of the classes out there being offered is the true garden and plant based connections. You really can't replace or replicate the garden based experiences of planting, learning, growing and harvesting the plants on your own. Nor can you learn everything from books alone. Also having class every week makes it flow so well versus a one weekend a month type apprenticeship. It is a big committment but one you won't regret! I have never been confident up until now in identifying many plants on my own, but now I am very confident and have learned so much in such a short time. I also have learned how to interact better with naysayers and disbelievers. I can finally hold my own with the most challenging of beliefs and come out feeling like I offered the other person something tangible. If you are contemplating taking the course I urge you to go for it! You will graduate as a competent and confident herbalist and will have many memorable and happy experiences during the duration of the course.

-A from Vermont

 

Our Tuesday class has been the highlight of my week this whole year. Not only have we deepened our connection to the plants in our area (my original goal) we have formed beautiful friendships which will last a lifetime with people and plants we resonate with on a deep level. Tony has helped me reconnect to the world through plants in a way that I understand intuitively and have not felt since childhood. It means so much to me to feel a part of the world again and revel in its beautiful gifts. This apprentice woke me up, brought me back down to Earth, healed my spirit. Totally unexpected. I am overflowing with gratitude.

D. from Shelburne

October Newsletter....Seasonal thoughts, recipes and specials!

Happy October Friends!

 

Praying

It doesn't have to be

the blue iris, it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few

small stones; just

pay attention, then patch

 

a few words together and don't try

to make them elaborate, this isn't

a contest but the doorway

 

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak.

 

~ Mary Oliver ~

(Thirst)

 

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Oh the wise words of Mary Oliver. I know Fall has arrived when I am making big pots of soup and mixing herbs into new blends of herbal chai's, (hoping someone will stop by for a cup) dreaming about spending time on the couch reading Mary Oliver, quilting, planning next seasons garden and reminiscing about the fleeting days of summer!, like its been months since we saw the sun! I feel like I am chasing the last few Summer rays...still hoping to get to the coast one more time, maybe in early November.

We have been talking a lot about Gratitude over on the Blazing Star Herbal School Facebook Page- feel free to join in the conversation with your favorite Gratitude quote and activities.  Gratitude is an emotion of connectedness, which reminds us we are part of a larger universe with all living things. It opens the heart and activates positive emotion centers in the brain. Regular practice of gratitude can change the way our brain neurons fire into more positive automatic patterns. The positive emotions we evoke can soothe distress and broaden our thinking patterns so we develop a larger and more expansive view of our lives. I have been doing a walking meditation daily focussing on being thankful. I have also been thinking a lot about creating a category of "Herbs of Gratitude" so far I have Tulsi, Cacao and Vanilla. What herbs would you put in that category. What would qualify an herb to be an herb of Gratitude? I would love to hear your opinion here or on FB. 

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The 2012 Apprentices made vegetable based soap this month with out guest teacher Desiree Cohen. Soon there will be a post on the Apprentice blog with lots of pictures. Registrations are coming in  for both the Beginner (tuesdays) and the Advanced Apprenticeship (thursdays) for 2013

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I am excited about this months "Harvest Moon Special" as it centers around one of my very favorite element of herbalism which is medicine making! and allows for much creativity! which is why I call it

"Creative, Tasty  and Nourishing Medicine Making for the Beginner Student"

(click on title and scrol down for more information)

It is the 4th offering in the DIY series, Do-it-Yourself Herbalism Series ...practical, thrifty and fun!  It has been called "an Art Course for the Herbal Student", and a course "that will lubricate your senses" Why do I love creative medicine making so much? It adds opportunity to create beauty, nourishment and richness to an ordinary day, more blessings to be thankful for...and as  your olfactory senses are stimulated it helps the brain register more happiness! This course is for everyone serious students of herbal medicine, homesteaders, urban dwellers, ...anyone that wants add a little colour and creativity to their kicthen! 

This course covers:

Water Based Preparations (infusions (hot/cold), decoctions, medicinal baths, compresses, 

formentations, mouthwashes, inhalants) 

- Alcohol based preparations (tinctures; maceration,percolation & spagyric methods) 

- Oil Based Preparations: Oils, Liniments, Salves, Cremes 

- Acetates, Glycerites. powdered herbs and honeys 

- Understanding basic interactions of plant phytochemicals to make better medicine 

- Recognizing and assessing the quality of dried herbs 

- Choosing the appropriate form of the remedy 

- The importance of effective record keeping 

- Terminology and definitions 

- Equipment needed for creating herbal preparations 

-  Principles of Ethical Harvesting 

- Basic Herbal First Aid remedies 

- Intro to Food as Medicine 

- Herbal Nourishment 

- Grow (your own) Medicine! 

here is a sample of creative, tasty and nourishing made my apprentice Shannon Toye for my birthday it's a cheesecake with a goldenrod, mango syrup glaze! Yum!

 Learning to create your herbal medicine at home is both empowering and eye-opening.  Herbs are magical but preparing and using them doesn't have to be mystical.  Click on the link below to take advantage of this monthly special and begin this 12 module Harvest Moon Journey!

 

BUY NOW for just $175

 

                                                                            

 

I will give 10 spots away at this lowered price after that the price returns to $250 so act fast! to take advantage of this deal!!

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 Don't forget that the  "Family Winter Health Empowerment Package " is still on sale until Oct 15th or until sold out.

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The recipe I have to offer you this week one of my favorite nourishing seasonal recipes. 

Favorite Fall Time Chai

Roasted Dandelion Root

Burdock Root

Chaga

Cocoa Husks

Orange Peel

Cinnamon 

After decocting the herbs I steam a little milk  (you can use coconut milk  though I use raw milk) add a hint of Vanilla Essence and Maple Syrup and add a little to your chai. Sometimes I prefer to use a little Tulsi honey instead of the Vanilla and Maple Syrup for an alternative flavor! Yum!

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So while you enjoy your Chai, here is a little Mary Oliver to watch and listen to. If you have never listened to her read her poems you are in for a treat,  I frequently start the day listening to her read a poem "Many Miles" is my favorite Collection but " At Blackwater Pond" is also fabulous.

Back to School Newsletter: Seasonal Specials, News, Recipes and a giveaway!

The last night I awoke in the middle of the night smelling Fall in the air... and reminding myself all that must be harvested before the night time frost turns green to brown! The day times are still beautiful, so so gloriously warm...I can't help to wonder whether the colorful flowering plants know that their days are numbered! It has been a great growing season here in the gardens. Ten apprentices and myself have filled our medicine cabinets with tinctures, creams, elixirs, syrups and vinegars! The pantry shelves are filling with canned goods, medicines and winter treats! and there is still more to be made, old favorites and new ideas to be experimented with. 

Talking apprentices, next years programs are filling so if you are interested, now is the time to have your place secured. We will be offering two apprenticeships a beginner/intermediate and an advanced program. You can read all about them following the links below and if you are curious about what we get up to check of the apprentice blog here!

Beginner/ Intermediate Apprenticeship 2013

Advanced Apprenticeship 2013

 

Fall is also a time of tremendous allergies. Are you drinking your Nettles? One of my favorite sweet treats and x-allergy treatments is Goldenrod/Tulsi Honey! Just loosely fill a jar with tulsi tops (leaf and flowers- no stem) and goldenrod flowers (just before they are on full bloom) then pour honey into the jar stirring all the time. If your honey is not pourable put jar of honey in boiling water for a few moments until it loosens up and then pour over the goldenrod and tulsi flowers. Let sit for 2 weeks and then take a teaspoon per day. It is best of the honey is local to your area...the closer to you it is produced the better! and raw of course! and don't forget to drink your nettle infusion!

We have a  Back to School Seasonal Specials for you. Our Family Winter Health Empowerment Package returns.

It includes:

 4oz Echinacea

4 oz Elderberry C Syrup

1 oz of Boneset Tincture

1 oz of Elecampane Tincture

1oz of Calendula/Sage Tincture

Winter Warming Bath Salts

1 oz of Thyme Elixir

Winter Medicine Instruction Booklet

 

and course 1 of the 

Do-it-Yourself Herbalism Series   ...practical, thrify and fun! 

                                                          Course 1: Optimum Winters Health 

Topics Include:

Immune System Overview

No Fear Flu

Building Immunuity

Cooking for Winters Health

Understanding Anti-Virals and Anti-Bacterials

Medicine Chest of Winter Recipes

Supplies Lists

  4 weeks of Reading, Assignments, and Medicine Making

 

For a total of $175 (that saves you $75 ! deal or what!!)

Options

October Special! Combo $175.00 USD Family Winter Health Package $99.00 USD Optimum Winters Health Course $150.00 USD

                                                                            

 Now for the giveaway! We have been busy concocting incenses! I am giving away one oz of my favorite new raw incence. I cannot stop burning it! Smells of holy woodlands around the world! Great for space clearing! 

White Sage Leaf (grown here),Calamus Root (locally harvested), Copal Resin, Frankinsence Resin, Pine Resin (locally harvested), Eastern Cedar leaf (locally harvested) Juniper Berries (locally harvested), Tangerine Leaf, Ground by hand in mortar and pestle. 

 

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is subscribe to this blog or become a facebook follower and let us know, by leaving a comment below! 

And here is a link to our FB page Blazing Star on Facebook

 

Happy Fall Everyone!

 

New Class: Stocking the At-Home Apothecary

Have you dreamed about a home medicine cabinet stocked with home made remedies for you and your loved ones...

Sunday Feb 5th,  2012   

10am-2:30pm 

Making your own herbal remedies is a cost-effective, creative and empowering way to take control of your health care and helping your community. This class is perfect for the gardener who wants to use what they grow for healing,  the nature lover who yearns to identify and sustainably wildcraft indigenous herbs, and the DIY the crafter with the desire to turn the dried herbs from the farmer’s market into medicine, the mother yearning to take care of her families ailments or even the chronically ill patient who needs a regular supply of remedies.

We will learn how to set up your at home apothecary using your own low tech kitchen lab! We will learn how to use herbal remedies safely, responsibly and effectively for individual and family health care, we will select a handful of herbs that are necessary for “kitchen witchery!” to profile and learn methods of medicine making both simple and some less common methods. 

 Sunday Feb 5th,  2012 

  10am-2:30pm

 $50

         ASHFIELD MA      

                                                                                   

You can register using the above paypal button or you can drop us an email 

blazingstarclinic @ gmail (dot) com

and send us a check: BSHS Po Box 154 Ashfield MA 01330

 

 

Landed...or why it has been quiet around here

We've been busy! We have moved! From one side of Ashfield to the far side of town! One of the hardest part of the move for me was moving the gardens. Thanks to the willingness of this years apprentices and some friends we spent four long days digging and potting plants…As an herbalist it is so hard to decide what gets left behind……how does one decide? 

(plants packed up and ready to go)

planting the community garden. lots of echinacea, monarda,lungwort, wild yam, valarian, wood betony, skulcap, baptisia, yarrow, bl. cohosh, peonies, ladys mantle, lemon balm, and catnip here.

planting the beds with gotu kola, tulsi, elecampane, spilanthes, meadowsweet, hibiscus, boneset, eucalyptus, marshmallow, calendula and a tea tree!

(the chickweed tub pictured), a nettles patch, and a violet area is under cultivation...some transplants some seeds. Burdock has been planted by seeds in rich soft easy to harvest!! soil.

There is much under cultivation in the green house calamus, vitex, white sage, licorice, wisteria

 

and Passion Flower!!!  Soon to begin Slippery Elm, and Hawthorne. 

As well as getting plants settled we have been getting chicks settled!

Next project:

Beginning the Woodland Garden Goldenseal, Blue Cohosh, American Ginseng. Boy we are busy!

 

Courses presently running (and with room still):

2011 Tuesday Apprenticeship (info here)

DIY Summer Maladies and First Aid Correspondence Course (register and info here)

Family Health Distance Learning Course (register and info here)

 

.........we'll be back with more Plant Profiles, Monthly Specials, Must Read Articles and Health Challenges as we continue to get more settled!

Spring Newsletter

Click on each page for a full size view!

 

January Special-

 

This month YOU CHOOSE ! We are re-offering the specials from  October, November and December

as well as a break on our DIY Herbalism Correspondence Courses- Sign up for all three for $100! that saves you $150!! Mind you this offer will not be repeated! tis too crazy! 

Three Correspondence Courses in the  DIY Herbalism Series:

Do-it-Yourself Herbalism 

                         ...practical, thrify and fun! 

Course 1 : Optimum Winters Health

Topics Include:

Immune System Overview

No Fear Flu

Building Immunuity

Cooking for Winters Health

Understanding Anti-Virals and Anti-Bacterials

Medicine Chest of Winter Recipes

Supplies Lists

 - 4 weeks of Reading, Assignments, and Medicine Making. 

 - This course will offered from December 1st to March 1st. 

 

Course 2:  Spring Tonics and Wild Foods 

Topics Include:

 Traditional Spring Tonics (Homemade Roots Beers)

Nourishing Herbs

Herbal Vinegars, Honeys and Syrups

Ethical Wildcrafting

A Wild Edibles Calendar

Remedies that support Liver Health

 - 4 weeks of Reading, Assignments, and Medicine Making. 

- Registration opens March 1st March 21 starts date

 

Course 3:Summers Remedies and First Aid 

Cuts and scrapes

Burns (sun and fire)

Bug bites, (ticks, mosquitoes and bees)

Muscle aches (Sprains/strains)

Bleeding and Bruises

Poison Ivy and Poison Oak rash

Dehydration (sun poisoning)

 - 4 weeks of Reading, Assignments, and Medicine Making.

Registration opens May 15th,  June 1st starts date

 

 

Here is a recap of all the repeat Specials we are offering this month!

1) Family Winter Health Package includes:

4oz Echinacea

4 oz Elderberry C Syrup

1 oz of Boneset Tincture

1 oz of Elecampane Tincture

1oz of Calendula/Sage Tincture

                              Winter Warming Bath Salts

                               1 oz of Thyme Elixir

                               Winter Medicine Instruction Booklet

on sale for $75 (Save 25%) 

 

 

 

2) Celebrating Herbal Medicine with Children Package includes:

 

* A copy of  An Herbal Summer (exploring the world of herbs with young children) with a new chapter  ON USING HERBAL MEDICINE WITH YOUR CHILDREN!!

* 4 oz of Elderberry  Delight (A syrup made from Elderberries, Blackcurrants, Spikenard Berried, Rosehips, Hibiscus and Ginger) 

* 2 oz of Chest Rub (made with local Balsam Fir, Eucalyptus and Sage oils)

* 1 oz of "Fever Support" Elixir

* 1 oz of our "Rescue Me" essence, Made with several Flower and Gem Essences in a base of Chamomile Glycerite

* Plus Instructions for usage

All for $55 dollars plus $5 shipping!

 

3) Our Wellness Program includes:

An initial consult where we'll come up with herbal/nutritional program followed by weekly personal support sessions where we can check-in and tweak the program and chart progress. Have you ever wished for a  personal health "coach?"

Payment Schedule:

$60 per month (regular price $75). If you sign up this month and then pay for consecutive months you will be able to renew at $60 per month.

$150 for 3 months when paid ahead of time

$300 for 7 months when paid ahead of time

Monthly Herbal Program

Month Long $60.00 3 month $150.00 7 month $300.00

Healthy Herbal Holiday Recipes: Day 4

Condiments!

Here are two of our fav!

 

Garlic-Ginger Sesame Sauce:

A wonderfully spicy sauce to use on cooked vegetables, grains, pasta & entrees.  Especially decongesting for colds and scratchy throats.

 

10-13 cloves Organic Garlic

 1/2 cup Sesame Butter or Tahini

1 inch piece Ginger Root, grated      

4 tsp Dark Toasted Sesame Oil

1/4 cup Tamari or Shoyu Soy Sauce      

Juice of 1 Organic Lemon (& grated peel)

Honey (to taste)        or Maple Syrup            

Water (to thin to gravy consistency)

 

Blend all ingredients in a food processor or blender.  (It will be thick.)  Dilute with water to gravy consistency.  Add honey to taste, to mellow flavors. 

 

Herbal Gomasio:

1 tablespoon 14 mushroom powder

1 talespoon ground Kelp/Dulse Powder

1 tablespoon hemp seed

1 tablespoon Milk Thistle Seed (ground)

1/2 tablepoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon course pink Himalayan Salt

1  cup sesame seeds.

 

Gently roast the Sesame Seeds. Once cooled grind the sesame seeds. Combine all ingredients and store in the refrigerator. Gomashio is used mostly in Japan and Korea. Traditionally, it is made using a suribachi, a Japanese grooved ceramic mortar with a wooden. Nutritious and super tasty what more can you ask for!

 

Don't forget to scroll down and read  healthful recipes from earlier in the week "CREAM OF LEEK WITH LEMONBALM"  and our HIGH MINERAL CHICKEN BROTH" and Green Tea Ginger Sage Tea/Lemonade and Hot Blackcurrant Cider with Ginger Brandy, Immune Enhancing Rice and Roasted Roots

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