This course in practical holistic herbalism goes way beyond creating your own herbal first aid kit. It is making home remedies to treat self and loved ones safely, but with an understanding of plant biology and how it relates to the human body. In addition we work with respect and acknowledgement of plants as beings in their own right, with their own characters and personalities. And so understanding the plants beyond physical medicines into spiritual medicines and more than that still, as companions, teachers and allies...
Practical holistic herbalism uses evidence-based medicine and an understanding of the interactions between plants and humans. Together we will flow with the seasons, with cyclical connections, where the wild leads the way if we just pay attention. This course, will help you develop a deeper relationship with your body, your local area and the plants therein, as well as how those plants act within your body.
Our approach goes some way to healing the rift with the rest of the natural world that currently exists, even within the modern standard approach to the use of herbal medicines, where plants are often considered as no more than their active ingredients and what they "are good for".
This course encourages you to work with plants that grow around you as free and sustainable medicines. This approach supports personal rewilding and nature connection. In this context what helps you, helps the planet - as we are one and the same. By gathering wild plants rather than purchasing mass produced plants, the soil remains covered with no need for tillage, this in itself sequesters carbon. Even with organic production, as soon as there is a disturbance to the soil carbon is released. Understanding this is so important to the health of our planet. The planet's health is our health, there is no separation.
In essence, practical holistic herbalism is an empowering reclamation of the management of your individual health through building relationships with your own body, the land where you live and plants. We are not just of Earth, we are Earth. Remembering and embodying that is both powerful and subversive.