Teachers

Matthew Wood has been a practicing herbalist for almost thirty years. He is widely known as a teacher and writer and has written six books on herbal medicine, including The Book of Herbal Medicine and The Earthwise Herbal. He is a registered member of the American Herbalists Guild and has an MSc in Herbal Medicine from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine.

greenmedic@copper.net
www.woodherbs.com

Rootstalk Classes

Intuitive Herbalism and the Doctrine of Signatures
Rejected by science but proven in the theatre of life and herbal practice, the ancient doctrine of signatures (the plant looks like what it is for) is both an important source of insight into plants and a doorway into more direct, internal experience of plants and Mother Nature. Learn the 'language of Nature.'

The Doctrine of Signatures and the Medicine Animals
The second stage of knowledge on the intuitive path of plant wisdom involves learning the relationships between plants and the medicine animals. When a plant looks like an animal or is used by an animal it is specially marked out as a medicine plant according to this ancient Native American Nature Wisdom teaching.