UPCOMING EVENTS
Now Enrolling:
Registration for 2025 Foundational Herbology is Now Open
This 9-Month In-Person Program begins March 15th. We meet monthly throughout the seasons to explore the elements, body systems, plants and medicine-making.
Early Bird Registration lasts until February 1st
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February 8th~ Creating Herb Infused Chocolate
Join Meaghan Thompson for an afternoon of crafting herbal chocolates, discussing the history, origin and medicinal virtues of cacao and relishing in the heart-opening expansiveness it all. Participants will get to take herbal chocolates home with them!
1 pm – 3 pm
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February 22 & 23~ Creating the Family Apothecary
- Saturday, 10 am – 12 pm~ Teas, Herbal Baths & Poultices
- Saturday, 1 pm – 3 pm ~ Syrups & Oxymels
- Sunday, 10 am – 3 pm ~ Herbal Oils & Salves
- Sunday, 1 pm – 3 pm ~ Tinctures & Glycerites
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March 9th ~ Infused Culinary Oils & Butters
As part of Bailey’s ongoing Food as Medicine Series, this class will focus on how to enhance the flavor and vitality of your meals with infused olive oil and butter/ghee.
3 pm- 5 pm
Also in this series: Freshly Foraged Herbal Pestos Dips & Vinegars on May 4th
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April 5 & 6~ Reading the Body Intensive
with Margi Flint
Join us for a special opportunity to learn from the renowned herbalist & author Margi Flint. This two-day intensive will focus on visual assessment of clients’ face, hair, tongue and nails. Reading the body’s colors and features can inform us of deficiencies, patterns and organs in need of support. Understanding these signs offers practitioners direction and confirmation for the herbs to be selected. You can see many of these indications change when better health is achieved. Be sure to read the full description through the link below.
Saturday & Sunday
10:00-4:00 both days
$330 for the weekend
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Pleurisy Root
/in Herb of the Month /by Ashley Davis(Asclepias tuberosa)
Pleurisy root is a cousin of milkweed, native to North America. It is not used so often in today’s herbal community, but was a favorite medicinal plant to both Native Americans and early American electic physicians.
Family: Asclepidaceae
Names: butterfly weed, orange milkweed
Parts Used: root
Energetics: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly salty/minerally, moistening
Uses: Highly valued in treating pleurisy, pneumonia, and influenza to reduce inflammation and assist expectoration (1). As a diaphoretic, pleurisy root can be useful in breaking a fever. It also has a moistening effect to both the skin and the mucus membranes, lubricating dryness and loosening secretions that have become stuck or stagnant. Asclepias relieves sharp pain associated with pleurisy and acute bronchial trauma or infection (2). IHistorically pleurisy root was also used for consumption, diarrhea, dysentery, rheumatism, typhoid and eczema (3).
Indications: sharp, cutting chest pain that comes on suddenly and persists for hours or days (2), pleurisy, pneumonia, acute fever.
The American Eclectic physicians favored this medicine as a treatment for any disease where the skin is hot or dry, or in which the pores are weak and allow for passive sweating, with a flushed face, a full pulse, and pain that is worse with movement. Contemporary herbalist Matthew Wood recommends pleurisy root for a “cough that is dry in the upper lungs, wet in the lower lungs,” “pneumonia in the early stages, especially in children,” “coughs that are tight, dry and constricted,” and “sharp, stitching pains in the chest; pain in the chest from coughing” (4).
Contraindications: can be emetic and purgative in high doses
1- David Hoffman Therapeutic Herbalism
2- Finley Ellingwood American Materia Medica
3- Maude Grieve A Modern Herbal
4- Matthew Wood The Earthwise Herbal
**This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease**