A long-standing teacher at the School of Natural Medicine in USA, Brigitte Mars taught 4 days of the second years fall Naturopathic Immersion. Besides introducing traditional chinese herbal medicine, she took the students on a herb walk, taught how to make tooth powder, facial scrubs, salves, tinctures, flower essences and much more. Brigitte also did a wonderful job of adjusting her teaching to the Icelandic herbal reality.
A walk down Elliðadalur brought an unexpected bounty of edible and medicinal plants.
We dug up dandelion root for making tinctures, collected thistle roots, colts foot, rowan berries and much more.
Brigitte demonstrated what she called kitchen herbalism, a wonderful approach to herbal medicine beginners to take the fear out of working with herbs and making it a fun thing to bring into our life.
One student reported that she was out digging roots the day after the class ended, so inspired was she.
Several students have expressed their gratitude to Farida for bringing Brigitte over as teacher. We look forward to having her visit us again.
Visit Brigitte's website www.brigittemars.com
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