Living Medicine: Coughs, Cold and Allergies
This one-day workshop will cover:
How our immune system functions; understanding coughs, colds, allergies. You will learn to identify plants from the rose family and understand different plant actions. You will be making your own remedies including: an inhalation, vapour rub, throat decoction spray & gargle.
This award-winning course is for anyone interested in healing plants and foods, health, gardening or working with communities. Led by medical herbalist and author, Alex Laird, the course includes discussion, tasting and identifying healing plants, practical remedy making and assessing your own health and diet. It’s about the pleasure of sharing knowledge, growing, eating, drinking and turning that plant into a simple remedy!
Ticket Information:
Tickets are £125 per person for this course.
- The fee for the day includes lunch, handouts, and a remedy to take home.
- Please arrive in the Garden by 10:15am as the course will start at 10:30am
- Please indicate any dietary requirements or allergies for the lunch of the courses at the relevant field on the the payment page. If you have no dietary requirements or allergies, please add N/A on the field.
We strongly recommend attending this Self-Care Basics session before any of the next four Living Medicine sessions, to give a grounding in foods and herbs as medicine.
Dates of Living Medicine Courses in 2024:
Living Medicine: Self-Care Basics – Chelsea Physic Garden – Sunday 7 April
Living Medicine: Digestive Discomforts – Chelsea Physic Garden – Sunday 5 May
Living Medicine: Sleep, Anxiety and Fatigue – Chelsea Physic Garden – Sunday 7 July
Living Medicine: Skin and First Aid – Chelsea Physic Garden – Sunday 1 September
Living Medicine: Coughs, Cold and Allergies – Chelsea Physic Garden – Sunday 3 November
We recommend attending all five courses (though not mandatory) and are offering a 15% discount (£531 instead of £625). You can find the Living Medicine whole body package listed on our ‘What’s On’ page: Living Medicine: The Whole Body Course Package – Chelsea Physic Garden
This event will take place at the Garden and in our Learning Classroom space and will go ahead whatever the weather. You should dress appropriately for the Great British weather. Please bring your own apron if you wish.
Organiser
Alex Laird BSc DipHerbMed FCPP, Medical herbalist, Whipps Cross Hospital and ex-Breast Cancer Haven.
Alex is a practising medical herbalist/phytotherapist and plant medicine educator. She runs the UK’s first herbal teaching clinic at Whipps Cross Hospital dermatology, has a private practice in Fulham, and worked for 20 years at London’s Breast Cancer Haven. Alex founded the charity Living Medicine http://www.livingmedicine.org to reskill us all in how to use food and plants safely, and to restore this self-care knowledge within mainstream healthcare.
Her book Root to Stem: a seasonal guide to natural recipes and remedies for everyday life (Penguin 2019) distils this know-how.
Keen to promote excellence in professional herbal medicine, Alex is a Co-Vice President of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy. She is a visiting lecturer at universities for herbal and medical students and has published herbal medicine research.