Vital Herbalist Gathering
with Matthew Wood, MS
The Gathering has already happened, but you can still enjoy the classes!
Contact us to be notified of our next event.
In-person Classes ✦ Meet and Greet ✦ Book Signing ✦ Herb Walks
Herbs for Relaxation and Sleep
Although mapped out as a class for beginners, it’s really a class for everyone: we all need to relax and sleep!
In the modern-day age of constant stimulus, frequent stress, and incessant to-do lists, it can be difficult for many people to relax and settle into sleep. For many, the ability to fall asleep, or the ability to stay asleep slowly chips away at their well-being and drains their stamina over the years. In this class, Matthew outlines the importance of recognizing our own sleep patterns, as well as herbs and supplements that can help us address these so that we can get more profound and quality sleep.
Topics covered:
- Magnesium – different types
- Ashwagandha – best ways to use
- Muscle tension
- Psychological tension
- Anger
- Night Sweats and hot flashes
- Evidence-based medicine vs. patient-oriented medicine
- Stages of sleep
- Night Terrors
- Jim McDonald
- Mullein leaves and dreams/nightmares
- Taking the pulse to test a remedy
- Chris McPadden
How to Take a Case History
When starting out on the clinical herbalist journey, and for a while thereafter, taking a case history can be intimidating. In this class, Matthew Wood walks us through the critical steps necessary for taking a case history, highlighting the importance of the mindset that a clinical herbalist needs to embody in order to best serve any client who is seeking help from the plants.
Topics covered:
- The importance of thinking like a mechanic
- Leaky gut
- Opposites – why they are sometimes useful
- Energetics of different organ systems, and how to ask questions to figure them out
- Facial assessment guidelines
- The importance of thinking like a philosopher
- The Entry Complaint – and why it must be addressed
- The importance of knowing if there is a medical diagnosis
- Important details to keep your ears open for
- People’s emotional states, and why it is important to not be distracted by them
- Herbs for the side effects of chemotherapy
- Herbs for Pain
- What can you do to improve your ability for tongue assessment?
- Supporting the adrenal glands
These classes and events do not include handout materials or testing. If they are added at some point, they will be bonus material.
These classes will be added to the Library 6 months from the recording date.