HERBLORE & MEDICINE MAKING
Sat, 28 Sept
|Loughrea
Come nourish your senses with a weekend of herbal exploration & medicine making.
Time & Location
28 Sept 2024, 09:30 – 29 Sept 2024, 16:30
Loughrea, Kylebrack West, Loughrea, Co. Galway, Ireland
About The Event
If you’d enjoy learning about medicinal plants, what they can offer and how to make
remedies that will support your health & wellbeing, then this course with tutor Julie Ann
O’Connor offers you plenty of opportunities. With a blend of information sharing, practical
demonstrations, encouragement to tune into your senses such as taste, smell and intuition, as
well as hands on medicine making, you’ll learn about the benefits and applications of:
infusions, decoctions, tinctures
medicinal vinegars and syrups
herbal baths and compresses
medicinal oils for external use
get to sample and make some of the following (depending on the season and availability):
medicated massage oil
oxymel
tincture
syrup
hydrosol
bath salts
rollerballs
tea blend
Whatever the season, you’ll be going home with a variety of remedies you’ve made yourself
to either start up, or add to, your home medicine chest, along with recipes and notes.
It’s advised to dress comfortably, with suitable footwear, as there’ll be opportunities to try
out externals oils and compresses, as well as go meet plants in the herb garden.
Materials charge of €30, payable to tutor at the beginning of the weekend.
Organic lunch is included in both Days and if you want to book accommodation onsite go to : www.slieveaughtycentre.com