SOLD OUT Living Medicine: Skin & First Aid
This one-day workshop will cover:
Food and herb know-how kit for first aid and skin problems, identifying the daisy family, and remedy-making: infused oil, ointment, cream, lotion.
The skin is the body’s largest organ with multiple nerve endings to protect us. We will explore how to nourish its many functions with foods and herbs. This practical session will cover how to address common problems such as eczema, cold sores, insect bites and acne, and which herbs are specific for viral, fungal or bacterial infections. We will look at these herbs in the garden, smell and taste them and together turn them into useful remedies. We will make an infused oil, ointment, cream and lotion as part of a first aid kit.
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 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.
Dates of Living Medicine Courses in 2023:
Living Medicine: Self Care Basics – Sunday 5 March
Living Medicine: Digestive Discomforts – Sunday 7 May
Living Medicine: Sleep, Anxiety & Fatigue – Sunday 2 July
Living Medicine: Skin & First Aid – Sunday 3 September
Living Medicine: Coughs, Colds & Allergies – Sunday 5 November
If you plan to attend all five courses in this series, we 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.
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.