Herbal First Aid: Oh, My Aching

Herbal Basics is for those who want to learn to confidently use locally available herbs and “weeds" in a fun, casual setting.

We'll look at the musculoskeletal system and talk about herbal anodynes and analgesics topical and internal pain relief. Learn about herbal first aid using materials that are widely available, like kitchen spices, weeds, and wild plants. Most of the remedies we will discuss can be purchased inexpensively at your local herb store, grown or made at home. Create a first aid kit. 

In Herbal Basics you'll learn about the herbs right outside your door and already in your kitchen cupboard, the ones traditionally used when the need arose. You'll learn to prepare the basics: teas, decoctions, infusions, honeys, syrups, candies, tinctures, salves and more.

And, yes, tonics to keep you healthy like elderberry elixer/sambucol, vitamin syrup and hawthorn tonics.

We’ll look at herbs for the different ages and stages of life to help support our health and those of the ones we love, including our pets.

Our kitchen time will be fruitful. You can expect to go home each month with an addition to your apothecary. Every family and community should have someone who knows how to tend a wound, sooth a belly ache and calm frayed nerves as well as knowing when something more serious needs to be done.

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