The People’s Medicine -
Traditional Herbal Wisdom
A Six Month Herbal Training as a Personal and Family Wellness Caretaker
Taking You Beyond Green Allopathy
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"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favour compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life."
- T. A. Edison
Now more than ever it is time to have the knowledge and confidence to effectively take care of your own and your family’s wellness and basic health foundations. Right outside your back door (and probably your front door, too) await your guides into the most ancient of healing systems. Make your request of them to enter into the healing mysteries and secrets of herbal medicine.
For thousands of years Herbal Medicine has been called The People's Medicine - medicine accessible to all people. Wild plants growing freely - best suited to the local climate, geography and needs of the local people. Those plants right outside your door hold the secret to the healing and wellness you need.
Herbal Medicine is not a high-tech medicine of complex and unknowable secrets. But recently it has been made to appear as such. What with the artificially created need for standardization of ingredients and complicated assays for active herbal ingredients, we have been cajoled into thinking that in order for herbs to be best used, our only recourse is to go the "real experts" and buy herbs from the big herbal processing companies.
Of course sometimes you do need an expert - someone with more knowledge and experience than you- and that high-tech processing also has its place. But before your situation gets to that turn, you may find that the local herbs in your backyard are still staunch allies and your greatest medicine for building your Wellness Foundation.
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For the vast majority of your everyday health and wellness needs you can find the herbs growing right around you that are useful to resolve these problems.
And not only is it easy to learn what these herbs are, but you can also learn how to make them into useable medicines. There are simple and easy ways that you can use to make fine high-quality and potent healing herbal medicines. It doesn't require a lot of machinery and you don't have to get an advanced degree to do it.
You are invited to begin your journey into the Ancient Healing Secrets of the Herbs and gain the knowledge and understanding of how to begin using these wonderful healing plants to support your Wellness and build your Health Foundation - for yourself and your family.
Sample Curriculum
Our curriculum will be a living breathing entity -responding to the unique needs of the group and each individual in the group. The basic curriculum will include:
What Herbs to use
- Every month we will explore in-depth two to four local herbs that grow right around you and offer beautiful strong medicine
- You will identify these herbs and be able to find them in your own neighborhood
- Plus, you’ll be introduced to understanding what the plant is telling you about its usage - Talking with Plants!
Making your Own Herbal Medicines
You will learn how to make simple and effective medicines with local herbs.
- Herbal Tinctures
- Infused Herbal Oils
- Infusions and Herbal Teas
- Herbal Vinegars
- Herbal Baths
How to Use Herbs
One of the most exciting aspects of using herbs is their ability to provide you with Preventive Wellness Care. You will learn he four basic types of herbs for wellness care and how to use them: 
- Herbs for Nourishment
- Herbs for Tonification
- The Wellness use of Herbal Bitters
- The Wellness use of Herbal Adaptogens and Amphoretics
Use of Herbs for Common Every Day Health Challenges
- Respiratory herbs for colds, flus, sinus infections, and other common respiratory imbalances
- GI herbs for stomach aches, nausea, constipation, diarrhea and other common GI imbalances
- Herbs for Every Day First Aid
- Herbal Protocols for resolving headaches, fevers, muscle aches and pains, ear infections, post nasal drip, infections, and other common wellness complaints
- Plus, a simple holistic 7 step process for making common sense health decisions
How Much and When to Take Herbs
Dosages are probably one of the most mis-understood, mysterious, and crucial elements to using herbs safely and effectively. Understanding how to dose herbs appropriately for the situation is what will take you beyond just using Green Allopathy (substituting a a dropper of an herb for a drug to get rid of a symptom).
- Dosage Guideline for each kind of the Herbal Preparations
- Wellness Dosages
- Tonification Dosages
- Common Acute Care Dosages
- Restoration Dosages
- The use of Herbal Simples
- How to make and use your own Herbal Formulas
- Using herbs with children
- Using herbs with the elderly
Join us and the herbs for this exciting Wellness Journey.
Classes begin July 21 in beautiful Nelson County.
When - Next series begins Thursday, July 21, 2011.
Schedule – We will meet one Thursday a month from 11-5 each day for 6 months - July -December. Proposed Class Schedule
Where - Our meetings will take place at The Earth Path School of Nature Centered Healing and Spiritual Practice in Shipman, Virginia where we will have ample access to many Natural Elements and be immersed in the natural rhythms of the great teacher – Nature.
Classes are held outside (weather permitting) where you are in the company of hundreds of different herbal medicines growing freely and you will have access to some of these herbs to make your own Herbal Medicines.
Registration – Admittance Interview and Pre-registration required. Register by calling Mary Ann at 434-263-4996. Final Registration Deadline is July 14, 2011.
Tuition - Full tuition is $510. A non-refundable, non-transferable deposit of $85 is due at registration. The remainder of your tuition is due no later than July 10, 2011.
You can make your payments by credit card, debit card, an ACH Check-By-Phone debit from your checking account, personal check or Pay Pal. If you are mailing your check please mail to Mary Ann Copson, 154 Evening Star Lane, Shipman, Va. 22971.
Please review the Withdrawal and Refund Policies.
Financial Arrangements - Full tuition is due before classes begin, but we recognize some may find it difficult to make one large payment so, alternatively, upon request, and with prior approval you can finance your tuition in Monthly Payments.
If you are making Monthly Payments please add an additional $24 to your Full Tuition of $510 for a total of $534. Your Monthly Financed Payment is $89 a month for 6 payments. Your first non-refundable, non-transferable payment is due at registration. Regular Monthly Payments begin July 10, 2011.
When you are making monthly payments, all of your payments will be processed by credit or debit card, post-dated checks, or as an ACH Check-By-Phone debit from your checking account, automatically on the 10th of each month for your 6 payments.
To request to make Financial Arrangements contact me at maryann@evenstaronline.com or 434-263-4996.
Please review the Withdrawal and Refund Policies.
Admittance Interview and Pre-registration required. Register by calling Mary Ann at 434-263-4996. Final Registration Deadline is July 14, 2011.
No previous experience is necessary.
What people are saying...
I am so amazed at these herbs. They are all over the place. I never noticed them before but now that I have been introduced to them and shown what they are and where they are I see them all over the place and it is magical. I am so excited by it.
-- GW, Shipman, VA
I hadn’t noticed it until today – as I am having these allergy symptoms – that while I was eating chickweed I didn’t have any allergy symptoms at all and today since I stopped eating chickweed – because it is all gone for now – I see I now have allergy symptoms again.
I am so excited about these medicines we are making. It is like I am a kid at Christmas. I can’t wait to open up and use these exciting gifts. Waiting 6 weeks is just too long for me. Everyday I am saying, “Oh come on isn’t it ready yet?”
-- HCK, Waynesboro, Va.
Join us for
The People’s Medicine
A Six Month Herbal Training as a Personal and Family Wellness Caretaker
Taking You Beyond Green Allopathy
...And step by step you will learn what herbs to take for what, when to take them, how to take them, and how much of them to take.
You will gain the knowledge, the confidence, and the clarity to use herbs for yourself and your family’s Wellness and Health Foundations. You will come away with a deep appreciation of herbal medicine as the Medicine of the People.
“Just as God in his mercy has given us food to eat, so has He placed amongst the herbs of the fields beautiful plants to heal us when we are sick. These are there to extend a helping hand to man in those dark hours of forgetfulness when he loses sight of his Divinity... the need now is for those who have knowledge of these certain herbs to go and teach all people how they may use them."
--Dr Edward Bach, Collected Writings 1936
Admittance Interview and Pre-registration required. Register by calling Mary Ann at 434-263-4996.
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