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Plant Medicine: Salves and Tinctures

  • The Guelph Outdoor School 733 Stone Road East Guelph, ON, N1E 3J3 Canada (map)

Plants can offer us so much. In folk medicine, the use of medicinal plant allies is deeply rooted in tradition and intention. Understanding herbs is a lifelong learning experience that can deepen our relationships with our bodies and with the land we live on.

If you are interested in exploring herbalism for your own wellbeing and connection to land and place, this might be the perfect first step.

Bring your curiosity as we get to know some locally abundant medicinal plants and dive into two different ways we can prepare plants for medicinal use: tinctures and salves. Together, we'll make an herbal salve from locally abundant ingredients, and learn the process for extracting and preserving herbal properties in tinctures.

About the faciliators:

Ciana started her herbalist journey not too long ago, but plants and the natural world have always fascinated her. Ciana’s work draws from intuition, ancestral knowledge, and Western Herbalism. She provides remedies for her family, friends, and community — it is her hope to have more folks see the magic plants can provide.

Danielle is a community herbalist, medicine-maker and herb grower who has been studying and working with plants for the past eight years. Her work explores how plant medicine can help remediate our relationships with our bodies, the land and each other, with a focus on healing justice and plant ecology. She is currently completing clinical herbalism training at the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine.