Herbal Talks:

Food as Medicine: The Healing Kitchen
The Safe Use of Herbal Medicine: What Are You Taking?
Lifting the Spirits: Natural Approaches to Anxiety & Depression
Herbal First Aid Kit
How Sweet It Is?
Herbal & Nutritional Support in Cancer
Hot Flash! Herbs & Menopause
Beauty from the Earth
Herbs for Women
Herbs & HIV Care
Prepare for Surgery
Tea Time

Thank you for your interest in my talks on foods and plants which strengthen, support, tonify, nourish and heal specific and general body systems.  Since I present a variety of topics, enclosed is a brief synopsis of each, to determine the one(s) most appropriate and exciting for your market.  It is also possible to schedule a series of classes.

Food as Medicine: The Healing Kitchen
Are we what we eat?  How can we make a difference by adding, changing or eliminating certain foods from our daily fare?  What about heredity and environmental factors? How does our food impact our health?  See which foods can benefit our heart and circulation, our bones and muscles, our skin, our digestion, our immune system, our moods.  Learn to make enlightened food choices to truly revitalize our bodies.        

The Safe Use of Herbal Medicine: What Are You Taking? 
Understand some of the basics of herbal medicine, including the forms, applications, actions and cautions of the plant medicines.  Learn about how herbal and mainstream approaches can overlap, and when to separate them. Controversies will be addressed, such as the pros and cons of standardization, where to go for accurate scientific information, and the real data on herbal dangers. Herbal teas are served.

Lifting the Spirits: Natural Approaches to Anxiety & Depression  
Living in today’s culture puts our nervous system at risk for major depletion and injury.  Depression and anxiety are only two of the many effects resulting from the stresses of a life with inadequate time to replenish our bodies, minds and spirits.  Learn to easily use herbs, foods, supplements, and lifestyle changes to restore the nervous system.               
                                                            
Herbal First Aid Kit
Learn to assemble a practical first-aid kit for home or travel use, and be ready to deal with many acute minor ailments, such as indigestion, burns, insect bites, nausea, sore throats, sinus congestion, fever, aching muscles, wounds and more.  Understand how to apply these remedies externally or internally, and sources for your own kit. 
                                           
How Sweet It Is?
Blood sugar imbalances-- obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, low blood sugar are epidemic in America today, and cause many adverse health issues. Understand the causes and some of the nutritional, herbal and lifestyle approaches that impact both prevention and treatment.

Herbal & Nutritional Support in Cancer
How can herbs, food and supplements be used to enhance the body’s abilities to deal with cancer?  Learn how to strengthen the immune system, reduce inflammation, enhance digestion, stimulate appetite, relieve nausea, and reduce anxiety.  See how herbs, supplements, foods and lifestyle factors can benefit the body as it goes through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Also discussed are holistic approaches to pain management.

Hot Flash! Herbs & Menopause
Learn how herbs, dietary choices and lifestyle changes can be safely integrated into a program to relieve uncomfortable symptoms of menopause, and protect against the heart disease and bone loss associated with the post-menopause years.  Hot flashes, insomnia,
dryness, mood swings, brain fog will be addressed.    

Beauty from the Earth
Is beauty only skin deep? Understand how to provide the body with nutrients which nourish the skin. Watch as a skin cream, a facial scrub, a massage oil, a foot powder, bath salts and a body mist materialize in front of your eyes using fragrant, safe, natural and available materials. Learn to prepare oil-based, water-based and alcohol-based skin savers.  Learn home remedies traditionally used for such skin conditions as burns, wounds, bug bites, warts, and poison ivy. 

Herbs for Women
In indigenous cultures, many common women’s problems, such as menopausal
symptoms and PMS did not exist.  Learn how diet, environment, drugs and emotional factors influence our hormone levels.  From menarche to menopause understand how women’s bodies respond to the ebb and flow of internal and external hormones.  Review specific herbs, as well as dietary and lifestyle changes which support different aspects of the female reproductive system, from menstrual cramps to menopausal symptoms.   

Herbs & HIV Care
How can herbs be a part of a comprehensive healing program in HIV care? Learn when to include herbs to support healthy immune function, protect the liver, offset side-effects from pharmaceutical drugs, improve sleep, balance digestion, lift the spirits.  Understand how to introduce herbs safely, and when to use the many forms of herbal medicines. Know the dosage, actions, cautions of some of the more familiarly used herbs. 

Prepare for Surgery
How can you maximize your surgical outcome? Learn guided imagery techniques, therapeutic foods and nutritional supplements to help minimize pain, improve wound healing and reduce anxiety. Understand which products are to be avoided and which are to be added to benefit you before, during and after surgery. Simple lifestyle changes can significantly improve your recovery.

Tea Time
Enjoy sampling a variety of brew-it-yourself herbal and green teas, and learn about the many health benefits of each of these tisanes (water-based beverages). Taste several sweeteners such as stevia, agave nectar and honey and understand their similarities and differences. All teas are organic or responsibly wildcrafted, and include Holy Basil, Rose Petal, Rooibos, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Lavender, Oolong Tea, White Tea and more.

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