The Taste of Herbs is a free webinar series presented by Rosalee de la Foret and hosted by Michael Tierra.
The next webinar is on Bitter Herbal Medicine and will take place in March. By signing up for my newsletter you'll be emailed occasional emails updating you on the latest dates for this webinar series. You can also join the Facebook page to join in discussions and explorations of the taste of herbs.
Understanding the taste of an herb is an important part of learning herbalism. However, it is rare to find books that give more than a paragraph or two explaining the tastes of herbs. Furthermore these traditional explanations can seem over simplified and too philosophical for the modern herbalist. This webinar series explains each taste in a focused way, giving practical examples of how to use these understandings in your every day life.
Using our senses to learn how plants work is an innate human skill and one herbalists would benefit from honing. Understanding herbalism through the tastes and through taste sensations helps us to deeply understand the therapeutic qualities of a plant in a concrete way. We can (and probably should) spend hours memorizing information about plants, but once we know a plant through our sensorial experience we will never forget it.
To me, any herbalist who doesn’t know the taste of an herb but attempts to use it can be compared to a painter who doesn’t know the colors of the rainbow, or a musician who doesn’t know the scales. Series Overview
Taste of Herbs
In the first webinar we had a brief look of each of the classical categories of tastes.
Sweet Herbal Medicine
In the second webinar we looked more closely at the sweet taste.
Pungent Herbal Medicine
This webinar we looked at the pungent taste as well as all related tastes such as spicy and acrid.
We will be giving three more webinars in the future.
Bitter Herbal Medicine
March (Specific date TBA)
Sour and Astringent Herbal Medicine
April (Specific date TBA)
Salty Herbal Medicine
Date TBA
Thanks to all those who have participated in these events so far. Wouldn't be nearly as fun without you all! |
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