Wellness Begins at Home...

• Does your household go through the same issues every year? Do you find yourself wishing you could do something to change that pattern of health? 
• Do you want to focus on preventative care and wellness instead of waiting for an ailment to happen?
• Have you ever had someone in your family come down with a bug, a bite, or a scrape, and wanted to address it at home with herbs if you only knew a little more?

The Complete Family Herbal is the right fit for you!

"The first step on the path of the herbalist is to learn how to take care of family, friends, and oneself—so we naturally begin our practice as a 'family herbalist.'  My first ‘patient’ was my father, my second was me. I helped both.”  We want to know what are the safest and most reliable herbs and how to use them in simple, at-home settings. Our relatives and friends will be both the most open and the most skeptical of our first endeavors, so we need to be as willing to step back as to step up. Humility and responsibility are as important as knowledge. We need to know when to refer to medical doctors, as well as more experienced herbal practitioners. Herbalism is an experiential art and science, so there is no predicting in advance what we will come across on our path; we try our best to be prepared. My father and mother are now 93 (2023), and attribute their longevity partly to me—though they listen to the doctors more than when they were young.”  

 ~Matthew Wood

Herbalists Matthew Wood and Phyllis D. Light, MA take this philosophy to heart and bring it into your home, where you empower yourself and your family with the gift of well-being. Providing healthy lifestyle practices, recognizing and aiding chronic issues, and timely acute care isn’t only healthy, but it also helps mitigate issues if an office visit to a doctor comes about.

This class goes beyond the quick fix: you’ll learn about the cause of the ailment as well as how to deal with it in the short and long term. This can develop not only physically, but emotionally.

Physical and emotional issues that are covered in this class include:

Class 1

• Skin. Boils, bites, rashes, diaper rash, eczema, poison ivy, chapped lips
• Teeth and Gums. Teething, loose teeth, cavities, gum disease, painful teeth

Class 2

• Basic First Aid. cuts, bruises, wounds, sprains, strains
• Muscular and Skeletal. injuries, chronic, joints, muscles, nerve injuries, tendons, fascia

Class 3

• Seasonal and food allergies
• Acute respiratory conditions. colds, coughs, earache

Class 4

• Sleep, anxiety, nervousness. insomnia, sleep cycling, bed wetting, nightmares, and dreams

Class 5

• Babyhood, Childhood, Adulthood, Elder Years
• More Acute Issues. sore throat, fever, and Flu
• A Few Hints for Pets

You will also learn:

• How to evaluate the situation
• Good herbal preparations to have on hand at all times
• What form of herb to take: tea, tincture, salve, or poultice
• Clear, suggested dosing amounts

Get ask your questions! You can add your questions to video recording discussion and receive an answer from Matthew or Phyllis.