1 Day Herbal Remedies Course

What’s it about?

This herbal remedies course is designed for anyone who’d like to gain an understanding of the wild plants found in woodlands, meadows and hedgerows. Because of the way the course is structured, we’re confident that it’s suitable for a complete novice up to the more experienced.

The use of plants as medicine predates written history and their use to treat disease is almost universal among non-industrialised societies. Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including aspirin, digitalis, quinine, and opium.

We’ll look in detail at identifying commonly found native plants and trees, when and how to harvest them, how to dry and store them and how to make simple herbal remedies from them.

So if you have an interest in plants in general, or herbal remedies in particular, this is the course for you.

What will I do on a herbal remedies course?

Led by Nicola, our Herbal Remedies day takes on 2 main components:

• Firstly the identification and collection of native plants that have herbal uses and then
• The preparation of some herbal remedies.

From the meeting point we’ll take you for a gentle walk around our woodland, surrounding hedgerows and meadows and show you the many trees and plants that have herbal uses. We’ll concentrate on positive identification and uses as well discussing classification, composition and indications.

We’ll collect some of these plants and discuss how to store them and how to make various types of remedy such as:

• Infused oils,
• Tinctures,
• Decoctions,
• Infusions,
• Ointments etc.

We’ll prepare and try out a selection of herbal infusions and then make some herbal remedies; this is likely to include a number of creams and ointments.

If you wish to take any of the remedies home with you, there’ll be a small fee to cover our costs.

To view our full course schedule, click here.

Other information

Location: Westwell, Kent

Duration: 1 day

Start: 10am

End: 4pm

Course size: Maximum of 8

Catering: We’ll provide tea & coffee, you’ll need to bring a packed lunch

Note: There’s a short walk from the meeting point to the camp.

What happens next?

Once you’ve made your booking you’ll receive an automated booking confirmation from Ecwid, our e-commerce platform provider.

We’ll send you a comprehensive joining pack 6 to 8 weeks prior to the start of your herbal remedies course.

This includes the location of the meeting point and what to bring.

Please read the joining pack when you receive it as it contains essential information about attending our herbal remedies course!!

FAQs

If you have any questions, take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions page. If you still have a question, feel free to email us at info@jackravenbushcraft.co.uk

Please note that as we work predominantly in the woods, it’s not easy for us to be in contact 24/7. We can be contacted by phone at any time, although during teaching sessions it’s kept on silent. Email is checked as soon as we get back from the woods.

Our blog

There are loads of posts on our blog related to our herbal remedies course, including collecting plants, infusions, decoctions, so feel free to take a look.

What our customers say about our herbal remedies course

We also have reviews on our Facebook page and our Google Business page so you can check out those as well.