HERBAL MEDICINE MAKING

 

Learning how to craft your own herbal medicines is an empowering tool that provides sustained wellness and autonomy.

Colleen Emery is passionate about providing access to education experiences that inspire and connect folks to the natural living world around them.  She began teaching simple medicine making classes in 2003 from her inner city kitchen and has gone on to teach a variety of pharmacy classes over the years. From beginner, foundational tasks all the way to complex clinical pharmacy techniques, Colleen has offered many versions of the Medicine Making Workshop.

The fall of 2020 will mark the first instalment of the The Herbal Medicine Making Program Immersion where students will be offered an opportunity to build their skillset over the course of 5 months. Students will learn hands on methods of turning raw herbs into storage ready medicines and creating a home apothecary ready to address many health concerns.

Covering all aspects of Medicine Making including Infusions, Decoctions, Syrups, Creams, Salves, Electuaries, Capsulation, Tablets, Bolus, Oxymels, Acetums and Tinctures, both maceration and percolation, participants be guided through several techniques from the starting of certain medicines to the finishing of others and everything in between.

Program Details

Starting with foundational principles of extraction this program is designed to provide an intentional journey through the techniques and skills necessary to create quality plant medicines.
Understanding a few basics principles gives participants the tools to create really effective plant medicine that honours the herb and the value it offers. Each month we meet, we utilize our foundational concepts and create more medicinal extractions, completing the medicines we started in the month previous, learning new and exciting techniques and layering our learned knowledge in an experiential process.
Ever wondered why some herbs should be tinctured, some decocted or made into an infusion? Why it isn’t preferable for some herbs to be capsulated or extracted in glycerine?
Curious about how to create fresh plant extractions and get the alcohol to water ratio correct? Wondering about dual extraction techniques and when this should be applied? Ever heard of double extraction herbal oil infusions or three fold tincture extracts? Wondering about the elusive percolation technique and how this plant extract is completed?
We will discover these principles by creating: 
  • Infusions & Decoctions
  • Syrups & Electuaries
  • Capsules & Tablets
  • Oil Infusions
  • Acetums & Oxymels
  • Salves & Creams
  • Bolus & Suppository
  • Tincture Extractions:   Fresh & Dried Herb Scientific Measurement Maceration Tincture Method
                                              Dual Extraction Tincture Method
                                              Percolation Tincture Method
  • Distillation

Students will complete the program with over 2 dozen herbal medicines completed for their home apothecaries. 

2020 – 2021 Program Dates

The Herbal Medicine Making Program Series runs once a month on Saturdays from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

  • January 16, 2021
  • February 6, 2021
  • March 6, 2021
  • April 3, 2021
  • May 1st, 2021

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Included in the Cost of the Program

  • Over 35 hours of in-classroom instruction
  • *Most* supplies for all projects
  • Spiral bound class manual with complete program contents
  • Access to additional workshops at discounted rates
  • Access to the book and resource library at Emery Herbals
  • 10% off purchases in the Botanical Dispensary from time of enrolment to completion of program
  • Access to the Holistic Herbalism Advanced Clinical Study Program (some conditions apply)

Investment

Total Investment for the program is $625 plus GST.

Payment in full secures registration. All fees are due within 30 days of the start of the program. 

The Herbal Medicine Making Program Immersion offers both onsite, in person registration as well as online access through our online classroom. All classes are streamed in realtime and are interactive.

Please note this program will open for enrolment October 1st and will begin in January. 

Please contact colleen@emeryherbals.com for more details.

 

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