Creative, Tasty and Nourishing Medicine Making
This is the most foundational and comprehensive of our distance learning programs! It is a great program to get you started on your journey, or to fill in any gaps you may have.
It is for you if you are a homesteader or homestead wanna be!, its for urban dwellers and rural farmers both, crafters who dream of shelves of bottles and jars filled with herbs and potions, alchemy and magic, for the Harry Potter wanna be, or for the stay at home mom who wants to nourish her family, for the life long student curious to try something new... for anyone that wants add a little colour and creativity to your kitchen!
Learning to create your own herbal medicines at home is both empowering and eye-opening. Herbs are magical but preparing and using them doesn't have to be mystical. These are recipes you will use again and again! either just as they are or possible add your own twist and create a family grimoire of recipes. Wherever in the world you are these recipes can be adapted to herbs and spices you have available to you! and should be adapted based on your ancestry and bioregion.
Here's what you'll learn:
-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, Oxymels, Elixirs, Glycerites and honeys
- Understanding 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
- Learn to your own body care products
- How to Grow (your own) Medicine!
ON SALE NOW for $200
(usually $250)
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