Sharing herbs brings them to life and that is what the Herbal Extract Company did last month, attending two industry events that we were proud to sponsor.
On the last weekend in May we attended the Naturopaths & Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA) Herbal Medicine Summit 2024 on the Sunshine Coast, joining a community of like-minded practitioners who are all as passionate as each other about natural medicine. This is the NHAA’s flagship education event for the year designed to keep practitioners informed, elevate their professional skills and advance patient outcomes. It was a stellar lineup as some of the most skilled and respected naturopaths and researchers in Australia presented over 20 expert-led sessions and panel discussions. More than 200 herbalists and naturopaths gathered to witness these top industry professionals and thought leaders share their knowledge and discuss hot topics such as sustainability, small scale medicinal herb farming, cannabis ethnopharmacology and patient access, oxymels, dosing, medicine making and adventures with alembics (an apparatus used in distillation) to harness plant material aromatics.
A new initiative, called Pearls of Practice, was very well received. This was speed mentoring, rapid fire style, with 20 round table topics including actioning sustainability in practice, genetic testing tips, starting a community clinic, important post-partum care and the new frontier of Artificial Intelligence.
Our practitioner consultants were kept busy giving delegates taste tests of our liquid herbal extracts including our new mushrooms cordyceps and lion’s mane, which we stacked together with reishi, as a special synergistic mix for the Summit. It was a weekend brimming with learning, connection and deep herbal wisdom from some of the brightest minds.
Earlier in the month the Wise Women Gathering 2024 was held at Webbs Creek, 90 minutes north of Sydney. Almost 200 people attended the three-day event which was a heart-warming testimony to the strength of traditional herbal medicine in Australia.
Our sales manager Lara Ryan presented a Herbal Wisdom session called Back to Our Roots: Medicinal Herbs for Women’s Resilience. With autumn being a time to work with root herbs it was very popular with more than 40 women attending to learn about the benefits of roots in women’s health. After sharing some Herbal Extract Company history, and our unique manufacturing process, Lara went on to deep dive into six root herbs: black cohosh, paeonia, shatavari, Siberian ginseng, teasel root and wild yam. Lara said there were two herbalist midwives in the group who shared their wisdom about using the roots medicinally in soups following birth, along with including the uterine tonic blue cohosh root (caution advised unless experienced) into the birth process and after birth support. After some taste testing the women made topical herbal creams using our natural base cream. Lara was also asked to sit on a panel about Wealth Building for Wise Women. The illustrious panel discussed how to monetise their healing skills.
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