| FREE INTRO: Green Medicine-A 4-Month Training in Herbalism |
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Monday, February 25 2008, 7:45pm - 9:30pm |
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Led by Peeka Trenkle, AHG, DSH with Drew DiVittorio, Dipl Ch,
David Winston, RH (AHG) & 7Song
Herbal medicine has been in use for thousands of years, each culture having its own unique system based on the herbs of its bio-region. In the last hundred years we have steadily moved away from our ability to use herbs in a daily way for nourishment and healing and have all but lost the ability to use herbs medicinally for treatment of acute illness. We no longer cultivate physic gardens in which families used to grow their own medicine or keep recipe books of remedies that healed illnesses in our communities. Foraging of wild plants for food has also largely been lost as a skill. Industrialization has led to a fear of nature, and several generations have now grown up believing that natural and herbal remedies are quaint but impotent and that pharmaceutical drugs are the only effective treatment for illness. All the work of healing has been delegated to the “experts,” both mainstream and alternative.
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Location: New York Open Center; 83 Spring Street |
