The Role of Women in Herbal History
Tuesday 4 October 2022
Several factors, including the lack of formal education for the majority of women, has meant that herbals and other literature on herbal medicine have been dominated by male authors over the centuries. The role of women as carers and mothers however meant they developed skills in home medicine, and have long practiced herbal medicine to professional standards.
This course highlights the work of women in herbal history - as licensed midwives in early times and surgeons in the medieval period, through to the wives of religious ministers in the New World and ladies of the manor offering charitable treatments to their own families and servants as well as the poor seeking their help.
We will consider a range of herbs with recipes including those used by midwives for easing the pain of childbirth and comforting remedies for after the birth. We will make herbal medicine for babies and healing applications for wounds following surgery. Recipes for travel to the New World and herbs found in the stillroom will complete the picture. The herbs featured will include rose, wormwood, cinnamon, cumin, mastic, frankincense, chamomile and valerian.
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Tuesday 4 October 2022
Several factors, including the lack of formal education for the majority of women, has meant that herbals and other literature on herbal medicine have been dominated by male authors over the centuries. The role of women as carers and mothers however meant they developed skills in home medicine, and have long practiced herbal medicine to professional standards.
This course highlights the work of women in herbal history - as licensed midwives in early times and surgeons in the medieval period, through to the wives of religious ministers in the New World and ladies of the manor offering charitable treatments to their own families and servants as well as the poor seeking their help.
We will consider a range of herbs with recipes including those used by midwives for easing the pain of childbirth and comforting remedies for after the birth. We will make herbal medicine for babies and healing applications for wounds following surgery. Recipes for travel to the New World and herbs found in the stillroom will complete the picture. The herbs featured will include rose, wormwood, cinnamon, cumin, mastic, frankincense, chamomile and valerian.
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