Living Medicine: The Whole Body Course Package
This award-winning five-day course, spread over 2023 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:
Book the whole course for a 15% discount. (£531 instead of £625). The fee 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.
Includes Tickets for:
Living Medicine: Self Care Basics – Sunday 5 March 2023, 10:30am – 4:30pm
Living Medicine: Digestive Discomforts – Sunday 14 May 2023, 10:30am – 4:30pm
Living Medicine: Sleep, Anxiety & Fatigue – Sunday 2 July 2023, 10:30am – 4:30pm
Living Medicine: Skin & First Aid – Sunday 3 September 2023, 10:30am – 4:30pm
Living Medicine: Coughs, Colds & Allergies – Sunday 5 November 2023, 10:30am – 4:30pm
These events 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.
Date And Time
Sunday, November 5, 2023 @ 04:30 PM
Registration End Date
Sunday, November 5, 2023Location
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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.