Constitutional Herbalism with Matthew Wood

October 8 - 10, 2010

Enjoy another great weekend with Matthew at the beautiful lodge at Camp Albemarle. We have been gathering here for a number of years with Matt by the fire, and the teachings are incredible.

Learn to evaluate people constitutionally, starting with the most basic and useful typology, tridosha (vata, pitta, kapha) and its Western analogs (ectomorph, mesomorph, endomorph).  More complex constitutions will be covered as well, including some of the Animal Medicine types.  Evaluation of pathology according to the six tissue states, which can be seen as an expansion on tridosha.  Most useful herbs for each category will be covered as well as evaluation from the tone and color of the skin.  Introduction to tongue and pulse will be presented if time allows.

This excerpt is taken from Matt’s website;
Instead of thinking of diseases as precise germ entities or molecular lesions observable in isolated tissue samples, we need to understand disease in terms of patterns of imbalance. This is not new knowledge. Plato described it perfectly twenty five centuries ago in a passage in the Timaeus (Longrigg, Greek Medicine, 1998, 160):

Diseases, except where they are very dangerous, should not be irritated by drugs. For every disease has a structure that resembles in a certain manner the nature of living creatures. For the composition of these living creatures has prescribed periods of life for the species as a whole. . . . It is the same with the constitution of diseases; whenever anyone destroys this by drugs, contrary to the allotted period of time, many serious diseases are wont to arise from those that are few and slight. Consequently, so far as leisure permits, one should control all such diseases by regimen, instead of irritating a troublesome evil by administering drugs.

Fee for the weekend is $295 and this includes camping and rustic cabins, three meals on Saturday and two on Sunday. We are committed to keeping herbal medicine accessible and with each passing year it becomes more difficult to keep fees low as those around us rise. Our food is organic, wild where possible and always fantastic.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to study with one of the true masters of Western Herbalism.

Read Matthew Wood's bio.

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