School of Botanical Medicine
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The Midwest is presently swaddled in cold and snow, but planning is in the works for an event that boasts warmth, light and an abundance of priceless information. It is the Midwest Women’s Herb Conference that will be held at the Christine Center in WI., organized by Linda Conroy, Megan Laws, and Jess Krueger. Keynote [...]
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The voice in your head can be helpful. Of course, one must listen to that voice for the helpful part to be effective. Not listening has it’s lessons, too. For instance, we get to practice how to deal with emergency situations which also give us an awesome chance to see the power of plant medicines [...]
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Beginning Tuesday October 18th, 2011 The 6 Tissue States that herbalists began to use around the late 19th century were configured from several Ancient systems of herbal applications combined with new ideas. We do the same today, taking old theories and mixing them with new techniques. This class combines the use of the 6 Tissue [...]
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A small movement has grown to answer a need for healing the spirit and soul. It was born of the reclamation of traditional shamanic practices, a practice that involves communicating with spirits and entities to help people recover from damage caused by stress and trauma. In order to accomplish the task, a shaman or spirit [...]
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A Tale of Kudzu There once was an older woman displeased with who her husband of many years had become. So she went to the village herbalist for aid. She told the herbalist that when she first married this man, he was a wonderful husband. They soon had children, and at first he was a [...]
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With all the talk about Canadian thistle, I did some light digging. It didn’t take long to find this fun old bit about the plant. This is taken from The Physiomedical Dispensatory by William Cook, M.D., 1869 Medical Herbalism. I do hope you all enjoy. I certainly have. Description: Natural Order, Compositae. It would be [...]
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