Foundations Herbal Medicine Program

One Saturday per from March to November 2020, 9-5:30

March 14, April 18, May 16, June 13, July 25-26*, August 22, Sept 19, Oct 17, Nov 14. *The July class will be in the Methow Valley for the full weekend.

Foraging Excursions

• Plant Identification Skills
• Ethical Wildcrafting Techniques
• Ways to Increase Plant Populations
• Drying & Processing our Harvests

Hands-on Medicine Making Skills

• Each class students will prepare their own herbal medicines to take home to build their home apothecaries
• Tea Making Methods: How to get the best medicine from plants
• Tincturing Methods: Folk and Ratio
• Herbal Vinegars, Honeys & Oxymels
• Making Herbal Syrups, Broths, Pesto & Salts
• Herbal Oils, Salves and Crèmes
• Liniments, Compresses, Poultices, Steams & Baths
• Distillation: Hydrosols and Essential Oils
• Medicine Making Supplies, Tools, Storage, Labeling & Organizing
• Resources for Sourcing Herbs
• Storage, Labeling & Organizing

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Understanding Plants from an Energetic Perspective

• Western Energetics: Hot/Cold; Dry/Damp; Tension/Relaxation
• Understanding Action through Taste
• Plant Spirit Medicine: Trusting our own Ability to Listen
• Doctrine of Signatures

Treating the Person & the Imbalance

• Seeing who is in front of you through the lens of the Humoral Temperaments
• Understanding herbs for individual application

Understanding Plants through a Scientific Lens

• Organ Affinities
• Herbal Actions and when and how to utilize them
• Herbal Knowledge from Research and Time Tested Experience

Land Stewardship

• Reciprocity
• Fostering gratitude, reverence & respect

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Food as our First Medicine & Foundation for Good Health

• Organic local meals included in the price of the program for each lunch.  *Accommodations are made for food allergies
• Building Community through sharing meals
• Eating from place to build stronger ties with the land in which we live upon

Medicinal Plant Cultivation

• Propagation Techniques: stem cuttings, layering, root division
• Specialized Seed Germinating Techniques: stratification, scarification, light dependent germinators
• Gathering & Processing herbs from the garden

Wildroot Botanicals is proud to host amazing herbal teachers from across the country that come to teach specialty courses. As a student of the Herbal Immersion Program you get the first opportunity to sign up for our guest teacher workshops