Herbal First Aid: Beyond Echinacea & Plantain Poultices
with Heather Irvine, Giving Tree Botanicals
Wednesday, April 6th 6-8 pm
$12/$10 for members
Learn a range of first aid applications of medicinal plants from a clinical herbalist with additional training and experience using herbal medicine with conventional first aid in wilderness settings. Learn some lesser known extremely useful herbs that will bring your preparedness to the next level. Plan your herbal first aid kit and learn about responsible precautions to take in first aid events while using medicinal plants. Get the facts, backed by experience, about how, when and why to use first aid herbs.
Heather Irvine is 2009 VCIH graduate and a 2004 graduate of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine. She has a small herbal product business, Giving Tree Botanicals as well as a small herbal practice in Burlington. She enjoys collecting medicinal plants and the stories behind them.