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| | Living Medicine Walks & Workshops | | | | Living Medicine runs herb walks and herb/food workshops in Newham and in other
areas in the UK. Led by professional medical herbalists, the workshops teach hands-on skills in making herb teas,
remedies and healthy food for specific health problems. Our aim is to reskill us all in using plants for health.
We wish to revive and exchange the world’s food/herbal medicine traditions and reconnect communities to their
local professional herbalist. |
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| | Foundation Course in Selfcare with Food & Herbs | | 08 June 2013 Six Saturdays from 8th June-13th July 10.30am - 1.30pm | | University of East London, Stratford Campus | | Water Lane, London E15 4LZ | | | Join us in UEL's medicinal herb garden for our first short course in selfcare! The course aims to give you skills to support your health and care for everyday health problems with food and herbs. Learn:
• how to assess your own health and diet
• identify which problems you can treat and when to go to the doctor
• how our health is linked to that of our emotions, the soil, our environment
• to identify the different characteristics of common healing plants
• how healing plants act on our bodies and minds
• to unlock the healing potential of your kitchen, windowsill or garden
• to map local food growing and green spaces
Cost: £180 including handouts and starter selfcare kit of jar, spray bottle and seeds.
For more information and booking, contact:
Alex Laird
info@livingmedicine.org Tel 020 7736 8975 |
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| | Cookery Workshop at Chelsea Fringe | | 02 June 2012 4-5.30pm | | 342-344 Ladbroke Grove, Kensal Road, | | London W10 5BU | | | | Come and learn to make fast food-as–medicine with delicious breakfast and lunch dishes to taste, including wild foods! Discover the healing potential of oats, nuts, seeds, beans, watercress, beetroot, chickweed and more...
Information and booking at:
http://www.chelseafringe.com/living-medicine/ | |
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| | Virtual Patient Herb Walk at the Urban Physic Garden | | 13 August 2011 2pm-3pm | | 100 Union St, Southwark, London SE1 0NL | | | | Come and enjoy a herb walk at 2pm in the wonderful pop-up Urban Physic Garden. Find out how we can use its healing plants to help Stan-the Stomach or Hormonal Harriet and improve our own health.
Cost £5
Book at www.physicgarden.org.uk/events
Or contact info@livingmedicine.org Tel 020 7736 8975 |
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| | Get Growing Club Session 4 | | 12 August 2011 1100-1300 | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | | Session four of four. A short taster activity session exploring nature and plants and food and herb growing.
Sessions are free. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Meet at cafe.
Please email info@livingmedicine.org or call 07815 168410 and leave your name and number. |
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| | Get Growing Club Session 3 | | 05 August 2011 1100-1300 | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | | Session three of four. A short taster activity session exploring nature and plants and food and herb growing.
Sessions are free. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Meet at cafe.
Please email info@livingmedicine.org or call 07815 168410 and leave your name and number. |
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| | Get Growing Club Session 2 | | 29 July 2011 1100-1300 | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | | Session two of four. A short taster activity session exploring nature and plants and food and herb growing.
Sessions are free. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Meet at cafe.
Please email info@livingmedicine.org or call 07815 168410 and leave your name and number. |
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| | Get Growing Club Session 1 | | 22 July 2011 1100-1300 | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | | Session one of four. A short taster activity session exploring nature and plants and food and herb growing.
Sessions are free. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Meet at cafe.
Please email info@livingmedicine.org or call 07815 168410 and leave your name and number. |
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| | Edwardian Foods and Medicines | | 17 July 2011 12 noon - 6 pm | | 108 High Street South | | London E6 3RL | | | | A taste of Edwardian food and herbal medicines with a modern twist.
On offer for tasting will be ginger cookies, barley salad, throat lozenges, piccalilli, apple cider vinegar and composition powder. Or why not try a mustard foot bath, marshmallow ointment or herbal snuff?
Members of the Living Medicine team will be on hand to explain how to make and use the remedies on show. Recipes will be available to take home but can be downloaded from this site after the event. | |
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| | Edwardian Foods and Medicines | | 16 July 2011 12 noon to 6 pm | | 108 High Street South | | London E6 3RL | | | | A taste of Edwardian food and herbal medicines with a modern twist. On offer for tasting will be ginger cookies, barley salad, throat lozenges, piccalilli, apple cider vinegar and composition powder. Or why not try a mustard foot bath, marshmallow ointment or herbal snuff? Members of the Living Medicine team will be on hand to explain how to make and use the remedies on show. Recipes will be available to take home but can be downloaded from this site after the event. | |
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| | Ease That Sneeze | | 26 June 2011 2-3.30pm | | 100 Union St, Southwark, London SE1 0NL | | | Herbs for coughs, colds and hayfever. To include: making herbal teas for hayfever, onion and garlic syrups, herbs and foods for immunity.
Cost £15 (Concessions £10)
Booking strongly recommended as numbers limited - book at
www.physicgarden.org.uk/events
Or contact
info@livingmedicine.org Tel 020 7736 8975 | |
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| | The Big Lunch | | 05 June 2011 1-5pm | | 108 High Street South | | London E6 3RL | | | | Living Medicine are offering their healthy and tasty signature pulse dish and herbal teas for you to try. You can also try your hand at identifying some common herbs in our competition! | |
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| | 18) Heart Herbs - Plants & Food for Circulation | | 28 February 2011 2-5pm | | Katherine Road Community Centre, Katherine Road, East Ham, E7 8PN | | | | Come and find out which herbs and foods you can turn into remedies to help prevent heart disease and stroke.
To book, please email info@livingmedicine.org |
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| | Herbal Remedies for Children & Their Grown-Ups | | 25 February 2011 12-1.30 pm | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | | Come and explore the medicinal herbs in the park through story-telling, legends and lore. Then make a medicinal cream for cuts and scrapes. Ages 3-8 plus carers. |
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| | Wild & Wonderful Herbs for Young People | | 25 February 2011 1.30-3 pm | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | | A hands-on workshop for young people about healthy living. Come and have some fun making bath bombs and a delicious nutritious drink. We will also go for a short walk in the park to collect some useful herbs.
Ages 8-13 plus carers. |
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| | 16) Kitchen Remedies for Colds and Flu | | 05 February 2011 1-3:30pm | | St Marks Community Centre, | | 218 Tollgate Road, London E6 5YA | | | Come and find out how to make simple food and herbal remedies to help boost your immunity!
The workshop is free, but numbers are limited, so you need to book a place. Please email info@livingmedicine.org or call 020 7736 8975 and leave your name and phone number. |
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| | Warming Spices in Christmas Remedies | | 18 December 2010 11-1 pm (part of the Festive Winter in the Park event, 11-3pm) | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | Come and celebrate our traditions and spices as we use frankincense and myrrh, cinnamon and cloves to create nourishing food, hot mulled drinks and healing skin creams.
Please book to guarantee a place, as numbers are limited:
Gail Farrow 07815 168410
gail.livingmed@googlemail.com | |
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| | Staving off those Winter Blues | | 11 December 2010 1-3pm | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | | Can a good breakfast, a walk in the park, some old-fashioned rosehip harvesting and a chilli hot chocolate help us cope with the dark winter months? Learn some plant medicine strategies and the science behind them.
Venue: The Cafe, Central Park
Please book to guarantee a place, as numbers are limited:
Gail Farrow 07815 168410 |
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| | Wild and Wonderful Herbal Remedies for Children | | 27 November 2010 11-1pm | | The Cafe, Central Park, High Street, East Ham, London E6 6ER | | | Come and hunt for wild medicinal herbs. Explore plants through storytelling and legends. Make useful home remedies. Ages 3-8 plus carers.
Venue: The Cafe, Central Park.
Please book to guarantee a place, as numbers are limited:
Gail Farrow 07815 168410
gail.livingmed@googlemail.com |
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| | 11) Plants to Combat Colds and Flu | | 07 November 2010 2-4 pm | | West Ham Park Bandstand | | | | Prepare for winter by strengthening your immunity with the harvest of autumn berries and herbs. | |
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| | 10) Staving off those Winter Blues | | 31 October 2010 2-5 pm | | West Ham Park Bandstand | | | | Can a good breakfast, a walk in the park, some old fashioned rosehip harvesting, and a chili hot chocolate make a difference to how we cope with those cold dark months?
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| | 7) Medicinal Plants and Foods for Allergies | | 11 September 2010 2-5pm | | West Ham Park Bandstand | | | | Come and pick the herbs which reduce our sensitivity to hayfever, asthma and eczema. Make teas and other remedies including foods. | |
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| | 3) Simple Food & Herbal Remedies for the Family | | 30 June 2010 10:30am - 1:30pm | | Grassroots Community Centre, Memorial Park, Memorial Avenue, E15 3DB | | | | Find medicinal plants in the Park to turn into energy-rich foods and remedies for eczema, bruises and digestive upsets. | |
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| | 2) Joint Inflammation - Treatment with Herbs and Food | | 24 June 2010 10am - 1pm | | West Ham Park Bandstand, then Church Hall next door to Age Concern, 655 Barking Rd, E13 9EX | | | | Turn herbs or weeds, kitchen spices and supermarket foods into remedies for joint aches and pains. | |
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| With thanks for photos to: |
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| Erick Vivas | La Boqueria, Barcelona |
| Carol Sharp | www.carolsharp.co.uk |
| Aoife Sheehy | North Haringay Roof Garden Project |
| Karen Liebreich | Chiswick Kitchen Garden |
| Jutta Wagner | Chiswick Kitchen Garden |
| Stock XCHNG | www.sxc.hu |
| Melissa Ronaldson | Herbal Snuff |
| Old Oak Community Centre Gardening Club |
| Rabiah Abdullah |
| Jonny Chubb |
| Gail Farrow |
| Alex Laird |
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| Partners in Living Medicine's West Ham Project: |
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| City of London West Ham Park |
| Subco |
| Grassroots Community Centre |
| Newham Carers |
| Age Concern, Newham |
| MIND, Newham |
| Voice of Africa Radio |
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