Building Immunity For Better health

This much requested 1 day course covers everything you or your family needs to know to support immunity at different stages of life from childhood to older age. We will cover nutritional therapy and herbal medicine approaches to a range of common health conditions from general bacterial infections to viruses.
There are lots of simple kitchen remedy and herbal remedy demonstrations and tasters and an introduction to understanding herbal antibiotics and antiviral herbs.

What you will learn:
•    How to strengthen your immunity using a range of herbs and kitchen ingredients
•    The best way to support your immunity using foods
•    Which vitamins and minerals are essential for our immune system and the best supplementation options
•    An introduction to our best antibiotic and antiviral herbs

What you will experience:
•    Demonstrations of herbal remedies for specific conditions
•    Food preparation demonstrations of simple immune boosting snacks and meals
•    Tasters of the remedies and foods made over the day
•    Herb walk in the Ivywood gardens to meet the immune boosting herbs

What you will take home:
•    Samples of the herbal remedies made over the day
•    Recipe handouts
•    A deeper understanding of how to support your own immunity

All day courses include a vegetarian lunch and tea/ coffee and snacks. Our medicinal plant nursery is open with plants to purchase during all courses ran at Ivywood. Course attendees are welcome to avail of short walks in the Ivywood woodland during lunch and tea breaks. Please note this course is for over 16's. Children may NOT accompany course attendees.