At Home with Herbs | The Plant Medicine School

At Home With Herbs

An introduction to using 45 common herbs and spices for health, cooking, skincare and gardening. A combination of clear videos and written course material help you to learn how to make affordable medicines, delicious food and natural skincare products at home for the health of yourself and your family.

Making real medicine in the kitchen

On completion of the course, you will feel confident and capable to start your own home pharmacy and to be creative in making wonderful nourishing and healing foods. The modules are linked below and you may access them upon registration as a subscriber.

At last this course is now fully available to subscribed members

This course is of real benefit as a stand-alone or for people thinking of enrolling for the Herbal Apprenticeship. It may also count as CPD in certain circumstances.

Beautiful ingredients

Introduction

What the course is all about – empowering, improving health, creativity, getting to know the plants.

Module 00

Mint in the teapot

Infusions

and decoctions, the oldest ways of using herbs, and definitely one of the easiest ways of using most of them.

Modules 01 & 02

Rosemary in olive oil

Macerations

Making infused oils, vinegars and tinctures with fresh and dried herbs. Several methods are demonstrated.

Module 03

Pouring honey into the jam-jar with the garlic

Honey into garlic

Syrups

and Honeys are a delightful and delicious way of preserving herbs to use as food and medicines. ..............

Module 04

Freshly made cream

Ointments

(also known as salves or balms) and Creams. Topical use for natural skin care and much more.

Module 05 & 06

Oils to sea salt

Salts

Blending herb salts to use in the kitchen with food and aromatic salts for bathing and for foot soaks.

Module 07

Compress to arm

Compresses

and Poultices preparing fresh or dried herbs, aromatic waters and essential oils to use topically.

Module 08

Pouring a tincture

eBook

With plant profiles, growing and gathering tips, medicine and food recipes to try out now at home.

Sunflower smiling in the flowers, Magourney Gardens

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