11 – 15 October 2010
Erin Smith, Simon Mills
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Today many of us have forgotten how vital interaction with the natural world is to our wellbeing. This experiential course will explore how cultivating our relationship to plants can improve our physical and emotional health on many different levels.
Simon Mills will look at some of the great themes in the use of healing plants through the centuries and around the world. This understanding can help people to pick out the most effective ways of using plants for themselves. The course will look particularly at some of the common herbs and spices that we have at home as these are the ones with the longest pedigree of use in a wide variety of cultures and settings.
With Erin Smith, participants will learn how to use plants as food and medicine in practical and accessible ways. This will include an in depth look at six common medicinal plants – hawthorne, dandelion, yarrow, lime (Tilia), and elder, learn how to harvest and process plants from the wild, and methods for interacting and connecting with plants. Participants will learn how to make vinegars, tinctures, oils and salves, and more.
This course is for those that want an introduction to plant medicine and wild food for vocational or individual interest. Time will be spent both indoors and out using the land, classroom and kitchen as spaces for plant identification and collection, foraging techniques and the processing of plants into teas and tinctures.
Erin Smith is a medical herbalist and ethnobotanist and has studied medicinal plants for 20 years. She maintained a private clinical practice for 4 years, specialising in women’s health and nutrition, before turning full time to international work in ethnoecology. She teaches classes internationally on herbal medicine and ethnobotany and is the Managing Director of The Global Diversity Foundation in the USA.
Simon Mills is an international authority on herbal medicine and has been a pioneer in integrating conventional and complementary health care in the UK, Europe and the USA. In 1987 he co-founded the first university centre to study complementary health, and later the first integrated health programme at a British medical school. He was specialist advisor to the House of Lords committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, set up the first masters programme in herbal medicine in the USA, and has built a unique database in the use of plants in health care. He has also established the SustainCare network to link those around the world working to redefine health care.
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