BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2723460:Event:104803 DTSTAMP:20260414T081802Z SUMMARY:Botany and Herbal First Aid Intensive with 7song DESCRIPTION:September 28th - October 2, 2016\nWednesday-Sunday 10 am - 1 pm >> (lunch) >> 2:30-5:30 pm >> (dinner) 7-8:30 pm\nJoin us in welc oming herbalist 7Song back to the Pacific Northwest! 7Song will be sha ring his wealth of knowledge about plant identification and herbal fir st aid skills. Detailed class descriptions are below:\nPLANT IDENTIFIC ATION FOR THE HERBALIST\n The ability to identify plants is central to all wildcrafting herbalists. In this class we will look at the plants growing around the Pacific Northwest and cover the basics of plant id entification. These include: understanding the importance and differen ces in plant families, learning the basic parts of plants and the fund amentals of using a plant key. This class is geared for beginning and early intermediate plant identifiers.\nHERBAL FIRST AID FOR THE HOME, TRAVEL & EMERGENCIES We will look at a range of practical, useful ways of using herbal medicines to treat a wide variety of first aid situat ions. These will include; injuries, pain, burns, toothaches, infection s, headaches, diarrhea and animal bites. We will cover gathering, prep aring and utilizing local plants. We will also discuss assessment and diagnosis during first aid situations and working with other practitio ners.\nHERBS FOR PAIN & TRAUMA Pain and trauma are both common health conditions that herbalist's see and treat regularly. In this class cat egories and specific plants will be discussed to work on different typ es of pain. These included skeletal and smooth muscle pain, inflammati on and generalized pain syndromes. Some of the plants discussed will b e: Jamaican dogwood, Hops, Valerian, Wild lettuce, Licorice and others .\nThis class is open to all levels of people interested in herbal med icine though it will not cover some of the basics.\nABOUT 7SONG:\n7Son g is a clinical herbalist, teacher, botanist and naturalist. He is the director and main instructor of the Northeast School of Botanical Med icine in Ithaca, NY. He is also the director of holistic medicine and a practicing herbalist at the Ithaca Free Clinic which is an integrati ve clinic providing free herbal medicine and other health modalities t o the wider community.\n7Song has been involved in herbal first aid fo r many years. He has worked as a street medic and herbalist in a varie ty of clinics and first aid stations. He has helped run the first aid station at the Rainbow Gathering for over 20 years, which is an off-th e-grid first aid station that sees up to 150 people a day with a wide range of health conditions.\nOne of his goals in teaching is showing h ow herbal medicine offers useful primary and adjunct treatments in fir st aid situations, especially working alongside a diversity of health care practitioners. He also endeavors to make herbal medicine accessib le and affordable and reaching people who may know little about it.\nO ne of his herbal medicine passions is traveling, gathering and prepari ng the herbal medicines that he uses in his practice. He also teaches at a number of herb schools and conferences in the US and abroad. Look for him in various habitats taking photographs of things that run, cr awl, fly or photosynthesize.\nADDITIONAL CLASS MATERIALS that need to be purchased: Each student will need the following materials for class : *Flora of the Pacific Northwest by Hitchcock and Cronquist -about $5 5 on Amazon (new and used) *Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest by Tu rner and Gustafson. $6-$20 on Amazon.  *The following botany tools (a bout $25 total for these items): 20x loupe, a ruler, a straight-back r azor and tweezers\n\n\nFor more information visit https://transitionwh atcom.ning.com/events/botany-and-herbal-first-aid-intensive-with-7song DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20160928T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20161002T203000 CATEGORIES:workshop LOCATION:Bow, WA WEBSITE:http://www.wildrootbotanicals.com URL:http://www.wildrootbotanicals.com CONTACT:360 724 7668 ORGANIZER;CN="Leslie Lekos":https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile /LeslieWilliams ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2270132096?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Leslie L ekos":https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LeslieWilliams ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Kevin F innigan":https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/KevinFinnigan END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR