October 11, Class 1: Wound Care and Intelligent Emergency Response
October 18, Class 2: Alternatives to Antibiotics and the ER
October 25, Class 3: Hands on Practicum and Growing a First Aid Garden
This three-part series is designed to empower you in home first aid. With a focus on herbal medicine and creative, quick responses to injury and illness, these classes are for anyone who wants to feel prepared in their emergency care of family and friends. We will cover bites, wound care, growing a first aid garden, making medicines, MacGyver-style scene assessment and response, herbal antibiotics, stages of tissue healing, and intelligent scene assessment.
During the first class, we will go over the basics of what it takes to heal tissue in the body after a wound. We will go over herbal applications for cuts, burns, and bites. This session is meant to deepen your confidence in your ability to respond intelligently in an emergency.
In the second class will deal with a discussion on how to prevent and treat infections without (or in conjunction with) prescription antibiotics. This will include infections at wound sites, basic infections such as UTIs and ear aches, and more in depth ailments such as the flu and strep. This session is not meant to replace trained medical advice. It is meant to empower you to know that there are alternatives available and that you are allowed to use them.
In the third class we will go over role playing scenarios, both in situations where you have a first aid kit available, and in scenarios where you are caught unprepared. Additionally, we will draw up designs for personalized backyard (or flower pot) gardens with plants you can grow locally to make your own first aid medicines.
Cost for this class series is $25 per class or $70 for the series if paid for in advance, and $30 per class or $85 for the series if paid for the day of. Students get a 25% discount with a valid student ID (contact us for details).
If you are interested in making a full herbal first aid kit, please contact Joanna at jovinton@gmail.com. If there is enough interest from students, we will organize a separate class for the construction of kits. Kits are usually around $150 with pre-made Railyard clinic medicines, or $100 with home-made medicines.
Please take this class series in conjunction with a CPR course. Further education is recommended in Wilderness First Responder training and Herbal Medic training. This class does not certify you in anything other than self-confident trust in your ability to respond intelligently to emergency scenarios.
Joanna Vinton is an Herbal First Aid Enthusiast who received her Herbal Medic WFR training from Sam Coffman of The Human Path (www.thehumanpath.org). She is also a massage therapist with a local practice, and a midwife assistant training with Gentle Landing Midwifery. She is fascinated with the vision of a revival in affordable and empowered community health care, and sees competence in home first aid basics as an important part of that vision. Please find more information about her work at www.sunmoonsdaughter.com.
October 18, Class 2: Alternatives to Antibiotics and the ER
October 25, Class 3: Hands on Practicum and Growing a First Aid Garden
This three-part series is designed to empower you in home first aid. With a focus on herbal medicine and creative, quick responses to injury and illness, these classes are for anyone who wants to feel prepared in their emergency care of family and friends. We will cover bites, wound care, growing a first aid garden, making medicines, MacGyver-style scene assessment and response, herbal antibiotics, stages of tissue healing, and intelligent scene assessment.
During the first class, we will go over the basics of what it takes to heal tissue in the body after a wound. We will go over herbal applications for cuts, burns, and bites. This session is meant to deepen your confidence in your ability to respond intelligently in an emergency.
In the second class will deal with a discussion on how to prevent and treat infections without (or in conjunction with) prescription antibiotics. This will include infections at wound sites, basic infections such as UTIs and ear aches, and more in depth ailments such as the flu and strep. This session is not meant to replace trained medical advice. It is meant to empower you to know that there are alternatives available and that you are allowed to use them.
In the third class we will go over role playing scenarios, both in situations where you have a first aid kit available, and in scenarios where you are caught unprepared. Additionally, we will draw up designs for personalized backyard (or flower pot) gardens with plants you can grow locally to make your own first aid medicines.
Cost for this class series is $25 per class or $70 for the series if paid for in advance, and $30 per class or $85 for the series if paid for the day of. Students get a 25% discount with a valid student ID (contact us for details).
If you are interested in making a full herbal first aid kit, please contact Joanna at jovinton@gmail.com. If there is enough interest from students, we will organize a separate class for the construction of kits. Kits are usually around $150 with pre-made Railyard clinic medicines, or $100 with home-made medicines.
Please take this class series in conjunction with a CPR course. Further education is recommended in Wilderness First Responder training and Herbal Medic training. This class does not certify you in anything other than self-confident trust in your ability to respond intelligently to emergency scenarios.
Joanna Vinton is an Herbal First Aid Enthusiast who received her Herbal Medic WFR training from Sam Coffman of The Human Path (www.thehumanpath.org). She is also a massage therapist with a local practice, and a midwife assistant training with Gentle Landing Midwifery. She is fascinated with the vision of a revival in affordable and empowered community health care, and sees competence in home first aid basics as an important part of that vision. Please find more information about her work at www.sunmoonsdaughter.com.