Natural Healthcare For Children

This 1 day workshop teaches you natural healthcare for your child and how to make simple natural and herbal remedies for common ailments in children. We will discuss a number of conditions from recurring chest infections, digfestive disorders and viruses. You will be introduced to herbs for these conditions and easy to make home remedies from herbs and kitchen ingredients. We will also discuss how to incorporate immune boosting foods and herbs into your child's diet for better health. There will be tastings and recipes to take home. This course is ideal for parents and carers of children, young and older, and expecting mothers interested in natural healthcare.

What you will learn:

• Natural care and simple remedies for a range of common ailments in children
• How to incorporate immune boosting foods into your child’s diet
• Foods as medicine – how best to utilise everyday kitchen ingredients as remedies
• Recognising more serious illness in children – red flags and when to get help

What you will experience:

• Demonstrations of how to make simple home/ herbal remedies for a variety of ailments
• Tasters of remedies made
• Herb walk in the Ivywood gardens to meet the most useful plants for children’s conditions

What you will take home:

• Recipe handout of range of easy to make remedies
• Samples of some of the herbal remedies made over the day

This course includes a deliciously health vegetarian lunch and teas/coffees and snacks on breaks.

Our medicinal plant nursery is open with plants to purchase during courses ran between May & October 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. We CANNOT accommodate children accompanying course attendees. Breastfeeding babies are of course welcome.

Times: 10am - 4:30pm (9:30am arrival with herbal tea)