weekend course herbal medicine making

location: Isle of Arran, Scotland

Nature based help is all around if you know what to look for. Get to know medicinal plants first hand by easy to use botanical identification techniques based on family characteristics, touch, feel and taste qualities using all the senses and the doctrine of signatures.

The course will cover:

• The foundations of Herbal Medicine – art and science in conversation with Nature.
• Gathering  leaves, flowers, roots and barks
• Making teas, decoctions, flower essences, infused oils, ointments, poultices, tinctures
• The language of plants - Intro to botany and Plant ID
• Treating family & friends - energetics and constitutional types for self help.

Once you have connected to a plant, learn which part to use, how to harvest it and which preparation would best suit its medicinal qualities, eg internal preparations like infusions, flower essences and tinctures or external preparations like poultices, compresses or ointments. Go home with your own remedies and knowledge of how to use them.

Use the sophisticated laboratory that is your sense of taste to determine the medicinal action of plants. Using all our senses, learn how to identify a herb's main qualities of heating, cooling, moistening, drying, antiseptic, moving, relaxing etc and from that knowledge apply what condition type and in which constitutional type of person such a medicine would be best indicated for. We inherently already know the answers, the aim of this workshop is to provide you with tools to make them conscious and pharmacy materials to make and take home preparations.

An experiential, hands-on practical approach to gathering and making your own herbal medicines under tutorage of leading UK herbal educators, Maureen and Keith Robertson.

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the venue is at the end of one of Scotland’s most beautiful but accessible islands, while the farm is run on vegan / stock-free lines