Queen Camel, Somerset
27/09/2025 - 28/09/2025
2 Days
Medical Herbalist Lucy Jones is excited to be offering a limited number of spaces on a two day course called 'Introduction to Tibetan Medicine for Herbal Practitioners'.
This can be considered a stand alone course to help inform your current herbal practice, or it can be taken as a prerequisite for my future three year 'Apprenticeship Programme'. (Please see the note at the end of this announcement for a bit more outline information on this).
Things you need to know:
The two day introductory course will be ideal for you if you're drawn to deepening your connection with energetic herbalism, holism and a more intuitive way of working alongside your existing strong base of clinically sound herbal practice. It will also resonate with you if you're a herbal practitioner with a background or interest in eastern spiritual teachings (but this is not essential).
The course (or the future apprenticeship programme) will not lead to an accredited herbal qualification. This is one of the reasons why Lucy would like candidates to be already qualified or in the process of becoming qualified as medical herbalists. Having learnt more about how to combine Tibetan medicine with Western Herbal medicine, course participants will be able to safely use their new herbal knowledge straight away in their practices to help their patients.
Dates:
The two day course is being offered on two different date options as follows:
Weekend Option: 27th and 28th September 2025
Mid Week Option: 1st and 2nd October 2025
Location:
The course is based in Somerset at Lucy's premises in Queen Camel. Attendance is person only. There's no online option.
Course Content:
Here's an outline of what will be covered:
Day One:
1. The three humours - the influence of the elements in health and disease according to Tibetan Medicine
2. Understanding the nature and qualities of the elements of Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Space.
3. The three humours and their influence on the body in health and illness according to Tibetan Medicine.
4. The influence of the following on the humours and how we can help our patients to balance this:
- Environment
- Lifestyle
- Diet
- Time of Day
- Seasonal Influences
- Habitual Thought Patterns
- Specific Meditative Antidotes to balance each humour
Day Two:
1. The tastes and potencies of herbs and their elemental makeup
2. The elemental makeup of the following tastes and how these influence the humoural balance:
- Bitter
- Sweet
- Sour
- Astringent
- Hot
- Salty
3. Learning how to recognise the different tastes and discussing the main tastes common herbs from within our materia medica.
4. Understanding the influence of the tastes (and the elements which make them up) on the three humours. Learning how potencies and qualities also affect the therapeutic action of a herb, (it’s more than just ‘taste’).
5. Examples of herbal topical or simple ingested treatments to help with balancing the humours. We'll learn about how to make and apply one of these for each humoural excess.
Timings:
Teaching, will take place each day 10AM - 4PM with an hour for lunch. Please bring your own packed lunch or you can pre-order from the on-site cafe´. Herb tea and fruit provided all day.
Investment:
The course will cost £280.00 to include all course materials and herb teas/fruit.
Application Requirements:
You should be a medical herbalist in practice or a herbal student working towards that. You may also be a therapist qualified in another related health discipline where you're interacting with patients.
Click the link below to find out more about the application process.
Lucy Jones (Myrobalan Clinic)
