Are you curious about how the herbs and spices in your kitchen cupboard could support your health?
Discover how to make medicines from your food and to make food your medicine. Learn to look after yourself, friends and family with the herbs and spices found in your kitchen cupboard.
This is a self-paced 6-week course beginning the 10th January 2024.
This 6 module online course covers: treating acute viral illnesses, supporting long term immunity, inflammation, balancing blood sugar and using fermented foods. No prior herbal knowledge is needed.
Medicine you’ll will learn to make:
Course Structure ~ this is self-paced learning.
For each week there are several short videos explaining the topic and how to use the appropriate herbs and spices. Alongside this there is a practical making video to show how to make a particular herbal medicine like a cough syrup or a bitter herbal liqueur.
Week 1 Digestion - Optimise your digestion using kitchen herbs and spices. Alleviate digestive symptoms and make sure you're getting the most from your food.
Week 2 Acute Immunity - Colds and Flu treatment using kitchen herbs and spices. Beat the sniffles with simple but strong and effective medicines.
Week 3 Blood sugar balancing - Improve your health dramatically by learning how to control blood sugar. This knowledge can help with improving emotional well-being, hormonal imbalances to preventing diabetes, the fastest growing disease in the UK.
Week 4 Inflammation - This is the basis of so many chronic conditions from eczema to heart disease. What ingredients could we use to reduce systemic inflammation? We will look at nutritional and herbal strategies.
Week 5 Fermented Foods - Learn all about how crucial our gut bacteria are to our health and immunity, and how to maximise beneficial bacteria by eating tasty fermented foods.
Week 6 Prevention, building resilience - Improve immunity and prevent illness by adding herbs, spices, seaweeds and mushrooms that enhance resilience into your daily life.
We will explain each practical medicine making task on video demonstrating the skills.
You will learn to make herbal vinegars, pastes, syrups, balms, medicinal stews & fermented vegetables.
Cost
Sliding scale:
Band A: Full waged: £220
Band B: Low waged: £190
Band C: Unwaged: £150
Cancellation Policy: The course fee is only refundable if you cancel your place no later than two weeks before the course is due to start.
Discover how to make medicines from your food and to make food your medicine. Learn to look after yourself, friends and family with the herbs and spices found in your kitchen cupboard.
This is a self-paced 6-week course beginning the 10th January 2024.
This 6 module online course covers: treating acute viral illnesses, supporting long term immunity, inflammation, balancing blood sugar and using fermented foods. No prior herbal knowledge is needed.
Medicine you’ll will learn to make:
- Herbal teas and decoctions
- Herbal digestive vinegar
- Herbal “Vicks” balm for chest infections, coughs, swollen glands, earache, tonsillitis, and sinusitis – but not petroleum based, so the herbs will be actually absorbed into skin
- A cough syrup
- Anti-inflammatory herb paste
- Blood balancing herb balls
- Several fermented foods
- Seaweed and Mushroom immune stock
Course Structure ~ this is self-paced learning.
- 2-3 hours of video and handouts will be sent out each week, starting 10th January
- Each week there will be a series of short videos of us teaching about that week's theme and one medicine making video
- Even though we are sending the videos out weekly you can do the course in your own time and the videos will be yours forever.
For each week there are several short videos explaining the topic and how to use the appropriate herbs and spices. Alongside this there is a practical making video to show how to make a particular herbal medicine like a cough syrup or a bitter herbal liqueur.
Week 1 Digestion - Optimise your digestion using kitchen herbs and spices. Alleviate digestive symptoms and make sure you're getting the most from your food.
Week 2 Acute Immunity - Colds and Flu treatment using kitchen herbs and spices. Beat the sniffles with simple but strong and effective medicines.
Week 3 Blood sugar balancing - Improve your health dramatically by learning how to control blood sugar. This knowledge can help with improving emotional well-being, hormonal imbalances to preventing diabetes, the fastest growing disease in the UK.
Week 4 Inflammation - This is the basis of so many chronic conditions from eczema to heart disease. What ingredients could we use to reduce systemic inflammation? We will look at nutritional and herbal strategies.
Week 5 Fermented Foods - Learn all about how crucial our gut bacteria are to our health and immunity, and how to maximise beneficial bacteria by eating tasty fermented foods.
Week 6 Prevention, building resilience - Improve immunity and prevent illness by adding herbs, spices, seaweeds and mushrooms that enhance resilience into your daily life.
We will explain each practical medicine making task on video demonstrating the skills.
You will learn to make herbal vinegars, pastes, syrups, balms, medicinal stews & fermented vegetables.
Cost
Sliding scale:
Band A: Full waged: £220
Band B: Low waged: £190
Band C: Unwaged: £150
Cancellation Policy: The course fee is only refundable if you cancel your place no later than two weeks before the course is due to start.
