Medicine Makers Bundle (Video and PDF download)

This bundle includes all the medicine making downloads on the online course page. There are 12 videos and 8 PDF documents detailing everything you need to make your own herbal medicines.

This course covers the following topics:

Dried Herbs

• Harvesting – roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruit
• Different methods for drying herbs
• Gabling (preparing the dried herb for storage)
• Storing dried herbs
• Labelling herbs
• How to make powders and capsules
• Where to buy capsules and capsule makers (including links)
• Calculating the dose for different size capsules
• A recipe for a herbal band-aid powder
• Why use an herbal infusion or decoction and why its sometimes the best method
• The difference between an infusion and a decoction and how to make each
• Dosages and reference books for using herbal infusions and decoctions
• A recipe for fever tea – cold and flu drink

Infused Oils

• What infused oils are used to for
• Which oils to use to make them
• Using fresh or dried herbs
• How long to leave herbs in the oil
• How to make fast, shelf stabled infused oils
• An infused calendula oil recipe

Flower Essences

• What is a flower essence?
• Plant Communication and awareness
• Observing plants with the five senses
• Types of plant communication – seeing, hearing, feeling , knowing
• The role of the imagination in plant communication
• Materials need for making a flower essence
• Types of water used in flower essences
• Different ways to make flower essences
• Directions for making a flower essence
• Flower essence dosages

Balms, ointments and pessaries

• The difference between ointments, balms and creams
• Typical uses for balms, ointments and pessaries
• Common ingredients used in balms, ointments and pessaries
• A basic lip balm recipe you can use to as a staring point to make your own creations
• A recipe for a lemon myrtle and eucalyptus chest rub for coughs and colds
• A basic ointment recipe
• A vegan ointment recipe
• A recipe of a combined ointment with added herbal tincture
• Links for pessarie moulds
• A tea tree pessarie recipe (for thrush)
• A black coshosh pessarie recipe (for vaginal dryness at menopause)
• A witch hazel suppository recipe (for haemorrhoids)

Tinctures and Glycetracts

• The difference between a tincture and a fluid extract
• Basic overview of percolation
• Different types of menstrum (the liquid the herbs are soaking in)
• Strength or weight to volume ratio of tinctures
• How to make a dried plant tincture
• How to make a fresh plant tincture
• How to make an herbal vinegar
• What is an herbal glycetract
• What is the menstrum used in a glycetract
• How to make an herbal glycetract
• A recipe for a licorice and marshmallow glycetract

Herbal Creams and Gels

• What is an herbal cream
• Types of emulsifiers used in creams
• Other types of ingredients used in creams like tinctures, herbal infusions, infused oils, essential oils, nutritional products, natural colours and preservatives.
• Preventing and healing a split cream
• Three different basic cream recipes that can be used to create your own creams
• A recipe for a Rose and Calendula Moisturiser
• Types of herbal Gels
• Preservatives used in herbal gels
• How to make a fresh aloe vera gel
• An anti-inflammatory gel recipe using backyard weeds

This bundle includes:

• PDF Sterilising bottles and Jars (1 page)
• PDF Dried Herbs (10 pages)
• Video Dried Herbs 3:52 minutes
• Video Powders and Capsules 2.15 minutes
• PDF Infused oils (4 pages)
• Video Infused Calendula oil 3.33 minutes
• Video Infusions and Decoctions 2.21 minutes
• PDF Flower essences (9 pages)
• Video Flower essences 4.01 minutes
• PDF Balms, ointments and pessaries (11 pages)
• Video Balms 1:29 minutes
• Video Ointments 2:51 minutes
• Video Pessaries 2:58 minutes
• PDF Tinctures & Glycetracts (7 pages)
• Video Tinctures 4:51 minutes
• Video Glycetracts 5:51 Minutes
• PDF Herbal Creams and Gels (11 pages)
• Video Herbal creams 3.44 minutes
• Video Herbal Gels 5.46 minutes
• PDF Resources (6 pages)