Wild Medicine Academy

Sulin Sze - NATUROPATH

Wild Medicine Academy

Learn about wildcrafting medicinal plants from your local neighbourhood and how to create delicious and nutritious meals and medicines with them. In person wildcrafting walks, online courses, workshops and beautiful ebooks are all part of the Wild Medicine Academy offering.

The Fully Online Wild Medicine Academy Offering is on its way

Stay tuned for updates on the Wild Medicine Academy online courses, available to anyone, anywhere in the world. These beautiful courses will inspire budding herbalists and herb lovers, and provide experienced herbalists with an opportunity to deepen their plant connection and communication skills.

First course on offer will be the comprehensive four module ‘Elixirs’ taking you from elixirs in their historical and mythical context, through alchemy, practical preparations and modern strands of elixir making, culminating in an elixir ritual to take you into elixir mastery.

I’ve been teaching and creating courses in herbalism for over seven years now, mostly for advanced diplomas and degrees. The Wild Medicine Academy offers a bridging option for anybody with or without herbal training, to develop practical skills in herbal medicine making, while walking an illuminated path into the field of intelligent plant medicine.

If you’re interested, please join the FB group and the Mailing List to keep up to date with news. And follow me on instagram too.

The Elixir Sessions in 2020

Are you ready?!

The Elixir Workshops take on new dimensions in 2020. There are a range of workshops based around elixirs this year along with the comprehensive and fully online ELIXIR course coming soon to Wild Medicine Academy. Not on the WMA mailing list yet? Sign up here

Workshops kick off on Feb 8th 2020 with Heroines of Herbalism, a celebration of three extraordinary, trailblazing women in herbal medicine who empowered, encourage and lit the way for future female herbalists. We get together to explore their recipes and recreate them along with modern twists and historical insights. More information and booking link here. Hope to see you soon at a workshop!

Other beautiful herbal courses coming up this year from Feb onwards:

Gypsy Medicine : Forage
Classical Elixirs
Elixirs – Online Course

Book soon as spaces are limited! The workshop will be held in Avalon, NSW.

Ready to get WILD?

The 1 day Wild Apothecary workshop is a hands-on medicine making intensive, and will give you deeper insights into the art of manufacturing high quality herbal medicines. You will learn about extracting valuable phytochemicals from plants while manufacturing a range of ingestible and topical preparations,. This is an opportunity for trained herbalists/naturopaths to revisit the process of transforming well known herbs into efficacious medicines. It is also a valuable experience for students and enthusiasts to dive deeper and develop the skills to create your own medicines at home. Book here

great for refining and deepening medicine manufacture skills using raw plant materials

Delight your mind and soul with the world of Botany & Wildcrafting

The Botany & Wildcrafting course is a fully online, self-paced exploration of foraging for foods and medicines, with an emphasis on understanding the botanical features of plants so that you can confidently and safely wildcraft for years to come.

With a decades experience in teaching herbal medicine it feels AMAZING to be bringing this work to you in a way that you can easily absorb and integrate into your day as well as celebrating the diversity and health potentials of plants.

Deepening your knowledge of wild plants: their nutritional and medicinal uses and their morphology

Gift yourself a Wild Medicine Walk

Join us as we tread the earth gently, putting into practice the teachings of the Wild Medicine Book Field Guide. This is a hands on workshop where you will walk, learn to recognize wild medicinal plants, discover the benefits of wildcrafting as well as enjoying a feast of ‘wild’ goodies to wrap up a beauty-filled morning. The first volume of the Field Guide with 80 pages of botanical and nutritional/phytochemical data on featured plants is included FREE. Here in the photo, you can see we’ve eaten to our hearts content and we are making up our Wild Medicine amulets, to remember this hearty experience.

Learning to recognise and prepare medicines from wild growing medicinal and nutritive plants

I just wanted to share how much I loved last week's Wild Medicine Walk. Sulin not only organised the walk but finished it off with a picnic where we were all able to sample a variety of foods made from all of the wild weeds we learnt about - delicious jams, teas, crisps, elixirs, dips and cakes. At the end, we received a guide full of information, and recipes to take home. It was such a lovely and educational workshop and I look forward to the follow up.

Absolutely loved the Walk Sulin, thanks so much for the love and effort you put in to make it so magical.

I did this as part of my Naturopathy course with Sulin and it was brilliant

There's always time for photos...

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) goes through major transitions to finally release a parachuted seed known as a cypsela. Fly little ones!

In the Wild Medicine Walks

Calendula officinalis

Calendula flowers are rich in flavonoids and anti-aging phytochemicals, however it has been used as more than a medicine...as a food colouring, baby skin soother, nutritive food and more.

In the Wild Medicine Walks

Echinacea spp

'Spp' means 'species, and refers to the various types of Echinacea that you can find. What a divinely useful and powerful immune modulator this one is!

Best for modulating immune function

Valeriana officinalis

Note the species name is 'officinalis', this means that this plant was considered an official remedy of the Victorian pharmacy, where we saw more order and regulation applied to the use of herbs as medicines.

A valuable nervous system unwinder for the 21st C

I can't wait to show you...

...and talk about the Wild Medicine Walks, what you will learn and when the next set are ready. Currently aiming for March 2019.

Coming soon

Solanum nigrum

Here she is, that plant that you walk past daily. Blackberry nightshade is not the same as Deadly Nightshade, do not fear. The berries from Solanum make a wonderful anti-viral cream and the berries when fully ripe and black, are delicious.

Anti-herpetic and anti-viral properties

Lesser Mullein

Now and then a plant surprises you, in your own garden, and settles in spectacularly. Lesser Mullein, a shorter version of the lung-restorer, Greater Mullein

Just a natural beauty!

Hypericum perforatum

The original serotonin supporter, St John's Wort is a wonderful support for those with hyper-active adrenals and a tendency to mood swings.

In the Wild Medicine Walks

Thanks for watching

The rewilding movement in combination with sustainability and a move towards biodiversity all support wildcrafting as a means of procuring food and medicine. It's for everybody, even you.

See you soon!

Sulin Sze - NATUROPATH