Event Date: February 4, 2012

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Location: Doyle Center, 464 Abbot Avenue, Leominster, MA. This is a green facility built by the Trustees of the Reservations at Doyle Community Park. 

Decription: Guido Mase is a well known clinical herbalist, educator and garden steward specializing in holistic Western herbalism, though his approach is eclectic and draws upon many influences. He is the founder and director of the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, a non-profit sliding-scale community clinic and apothecary that also offers an intensive 3-year clinical herbalist training program. (www.vtherbcenter.org.) He works clinically and teaches as a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and is part of United Plant Savers and the American Botanical Guild. Guido has spoken at many national and international herbal symposiums as well as educational institutions for his in depth knowledge and practices. Now he is coming to Central Mass for a day of exciting and educational seminars for all level herbalists!

History of Herbal Medicine in the United States During the 19th and 20th Centuries
$25 per person • 11am-1pm
Learn the roots, growth and manipulation of plant-based medicine in our country during the last 200+ years. Knowing this history (so rarely taught in medical schools) can help us better understand the unique nature of the American herbal movement, the rise of the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex, and the challenges that herbal medicine faces today. Much of what happened during the 1800s is happening again today! Let us learn from our mistakes so that the plants can rise to their rightful place in medicine without being corrupted or co-opted.

Herbal Clinic Essentials
$35 per person • 2-5pm
What goes into creating an herb clinic? What structures, both physical and procedural, are required? How does the operation of a clinic that focuses on botanical medicine fit into the current regulatory environment? We will explore these questions and also discuss the art of the intake in herbal medicine including very basic tongue, pulse and physiognomic assessment techniques; and to learn about a simple and sage but very effective therapeutic framework involving three basic classes of medicinal herbs.

Register for one or both classes. Full day price including both classes discounted to $45 until Jan 21/$60 after Jan 21.

Lunch break from 1-2pm. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch onsite.

Register online at http://scentsibilities.com under workshops or call Scentsibilities at 508-869-3300 for information.

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