Workshops for Purchase

Kitchen Medicine Immunity: 4 Part Intensive

In this series, you'll learn what to do at the first sign of a cold, what preventive measures can be taken during the fall and winter, as well as how to address respiratory infections and fevers using what you have on hand in your kitchen.

Each lesson comes with a video, a PDF handout, and a PDF recipe card.
No prior experience with herbal medicine necessary.

What’s included:
  • 4 one hour lessons video lessons (you can keep them for life)
  • Notes covering the key herbs and protocols
  • 4 recipe cards with medicine making best practices including how to take and store your concoctions.


Lesson one: Prevention & the Lymphatic System
  • Overview of the immune and lymphatic systems, as well as which other organ systems affect these
  • Food as medicine
  • Sleep, movement, nervous system support
  •  Medicine Making Recipe Card: Fire Cider

Lesson Two: Immune Tonics & the Acquired Immune System
  • What is your acquired immune system and how can you support it with herbs
  • What are immune tonics and how to use them
  • Considering autoimmune conditions
  • Medicinal Mushrooms 
  • Making, storing, and using medicinal broths
  • Medicine Making Recipe Card: Deep Immune Tonic Broth


Lesson Three: Addressing Respiratory Infections & Supporting Mucus Membranes
  • Herbs for the common cold
  • The role of mucus
  • Differentiating which herbs for which types of coughs
  • How to safely do a chest plaster
  • How and why to steam
  • Medicine Making Recipe Card: Elderberry Syrup and super simple cough syrup


Week Four: Dealing with Fevers & a Garlic Deep Dive
  • The role of a fever
  • Stages of a fever and what to do at each stage
  • When to seek further support
  • Supporting convalescence
  • Medicine Making: Garlic Deep Dive


Cost:
$40 - $70, sliding scale

Free workshops

This is a workshop I taught June 2021, as a fundraiser for the Philly Herb Hub, hosted by the Fumo branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. It's about an hour long and covers how to use sedative nervines and adaptogens to support sleep. Enjoy!