Nobody likes pain.  In fact, the primary reason we seek healing is to be free of pain.  Modern medicine offers many effective ways to relieve pain, but drugs have two  major drawbacks.  First, they aren't helping to remove the underlying cause of our pain.  Most of the time they are simply masking the pain, numbing us to the fact that something is still wrong.  Secondly, these medications are often toxic and have side effects, so while they may be useful for temporarily easing our suffering, they are not the best choice for long term relief of pain.

This class will be taught by both Steven Horne and Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, Registered Herbalists with the American Herbalists Guild.  Both are well versed in herbal remedies for pain.

In Session One (May 18), we will briefly cover the basics of acute pain relief covered in depth in the Dr. Mom-Dr. Dad class, but we will rapidly move beyond this basic material.  My goal in this class is to give you an advanced understanding of the natural substances that can ease pain, so we'll talk about the different categories of natural pain remedies and what each category does and when it should be applied. 

In Session Two (June 1), we'll take an advanced tour of herbal remedies for pain, including toxic botanicals for pain and how they are used.  We'll cover a lot of herbs you may be familiar with, such as kava kava, lobelia, skullcap, willow bark and other anodynes (mild pain relievers), but we'll also discuss herbal narcotics (serious pain killing plant drugs) such as poppy, cannabis and gelsimum. (Even though many of us will never use some of these stronger remedies, I feel it is important that we know about them, if for no other reason than that knowledge may come in handy in emergency situations someday.)  We'll discuss the kinds of pain that each remedy is best at easing.

When you finish this class you'll have a very deep knowledge of the underlying causes of pain, how to relieve them and an indepth knowledge of an advanced materia medica of plants that can help us in our quest to be pain free.   This webinar will include an E-book I've started writing about ten years about.  You will be able to download the handouts and the recorded webinar for review. 

Cost for the Webinar, Pain Relief without Medication E-Book, handouts and webinar recordings will be $67 if you register before May 1 and $77 thereafter. The class will be held at 6:30 Mountain Time.  Around May 14, students who register for this webinar will receive an email with instructions on how to register with gotowebinar so they will be able to log into the webinars.  High speed internet is required.  Please do not register for this class if you do not have high speed internet.