Practical Herbal Medicine 3 Day Course. Sold Out

Dates just announced for 2025. 12th till 15th May 2025.To apply please see the application form below.

Come along and share the delights of Natures Wild Medicine Chest with experienced Traditional Herbalists Nicola Dee Kelly MNIMH and Keith Robertson FNIMH.  We will be meeting plants in our amazing herb and vegetable garden and hedgerows and collect treasures to create a variety of preparations. These will include teas, decoctions, flower essences, infused oils, poultices etc.

Make your own herbal preparations to complete this kit to take it, and the knowledge of how to use it, home for basic self help for family and friends.

An experiential, hands-on practical approach to gathering and making your own herbal medicines under the tutorage of leading UK herbal educators,  Keith Robertson MSc FNIMH and Nicola Dee Kelly BSc MNIMH.
Learn about
• The foundations of Herbal Medicine – art and science in conversation with Nature.
• Gathering  leaves, flowers, roots and barks as appropriate.
• Making teas, decoctions, flower essences, infused oils, poultices etc.
• The language of plants ~ Intro to botany and Plant ID
• Treating family & friends ~energetics and constitutional types for self help.

Nature based help is all around if you know what to look for. Get to know medicinal plants first hand by easy to use botanical identification techniques based on family characteristics, touch, feel and taste qualities using all your senses. Once you have connected to a plant, learn which part to use, how to harvest it and which preparation would best suit its medicinal qualities. The aim is to make as deep a connection with a particular plant as possible over the 3 days.  Go home with your own remedies and knowledge of how to use them.

Use the sophisticated laboratory that is your sense of taste to determine the medicinal action of plants. Using all our senses, learn how to identify a herb’s main qualities of heating, cooling, moistening, drying, antiseptic, moving, relaxing etc and from that knowledge apply what condition type and in which constitutional type of person such a medicine would be best indicated for. We inherently already know the answers, the aim of this workshop is to provide you with tools to make them conscious and  the pharmacy materials to make and take home preparations.

Cost of tuition is £300. All food and accommodation is £225 for a shared (same gender) room. Please complete the application form below or e-mail me for one at keith at herbalmedicine.org.uk please supply the @ for anti spam.

SSHM-Application-form–Practical Herbal Medicine 2025

This course involves studying at the Herb Farm while staying nearby in your own full furnished cottage in Kildonan directly by the sea. Let us know if you are coming by car and if you

From the beginning of human her/history we have lived in an elemental world.

Herbal Course Photographs

Without the soil and rain and wind and sun and space we could not have stood here in anything like our present form. After many years of study and research into the elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Ether and their inter-relationships with health and healing plants, traditional herbalist and renowned teacher Keith Robertson MSc FNIMH is ready to bring his own systematic approach on seeing how these elements move through plants and humans. Keith was born on the Island of Arran into a family with strong healing and Celtic roots and this 3 Day Course mirrors that quest using primarily the living medium of our native plants as our guides. As humans we find ourselves mobile in space but constrained by linear time. Plants are mainly constrained in space but more mobile in time, as they reincarnate as seeds or clone themselves by shoots, runners etc. This makes them such important teachers as they so different from and yet so closely entwined with the human being.

This 3 Day Course will use the progression of the Elements as a structure to view plants and the human body, working through each element in sequence and fully exploring all their many aspects. A contemplative and experiential approach has been built up over the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine’s long career and this is our key into unlocking the book of nature and allowing us to glimpse the meanings emblazoned on creation.

Places are limited so please get in touch soon. For an application form please click on the link below or  my personal e-mail is keith at herbalmedicine.org.uk (please help us avoid spam by the supplying the @ yourself) and we are also on Facebook at Drimlabarra Herb Farm and as Keith Robertson.