ACORN School of Herbal Medicine Community

11/30/2025

When considering where to study the most important factor is clinical outcomes. Even if you have no intention of being a clinical practitioner anyone who comes to you for help is a client case.

11/17/2025

Wound healing oil made with Calendula, plantain, and St. Johnswort…. Yep, dried St. Johnswort still works!

The pretty red color of fresh st. Johnswort oil is a pigment of the constituent hypericin. Most people think that this medicine is only available in fresh plant extracts due to the presence of the color. However hypericin and many other constituents in the plant are very well extracted from the dried plant.

It just doesn’t turn bright red, instead it turns a dark brown color due to the wider range of available constituents drowning out the red color.

St. Johnswort is effective as anti inflammatory wound healer whether made from fresh plant or dried.

11/07/2025

Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver

I thought the earth
remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the riverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

10/15/2025

Shipped out from our school pharmacy today…

10/13/2025

Mountain Rose Herbs blog, written by Heather Luna

The Roots of Vitalism: A Historical Lens on Natural Healing and Bontanical Medicine.

Check it out👇🏽

https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/the-roots-of-vitalism-a-historical-lens-on-natural-healing-and-botanical-medicine

10/06/2025

Autumn Herb Walk! It may seem like the season of plants is over, but fall is really a time of abundance for botanical medicines… There is much to learn and gather for stocking the winter medicine chest.

This walk will highlight roots, berries, barks, and more. Join me from 10am-1pm at a local park hidden behind the library for a gentle meander around the pond to meet local medicinal plants.

Here’s the link to register 🌰
https://www.acornherbschool.com/field-classes

09/26/2025

Infused oils and salves class… calendula oil made three ways + and finished into salve.

09/22/2025

Farming methods are at the root of public health and financial security...

From the National Library of Medicine -

Agriculture and health are linked in many ways. First, agriculture is essential for good health: it produces the world's food, fibre and materials for shelter; in many countries it is also an important source of livelihood among the poor. At the same time, agriculture can be linked with poor health, including malnutrition, malaria, foodborne illnesses, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), livestock-related diseases, chronic diseases and occupational ill-health. Health also affects agriculture: people's health status influences the demand for agricultural outputs, and in agricultural communities, poor health reduces work performance, reducing income and productivity and perpetuating a downward spiral into ill-health. This paper presents an overview of the bidirectional links between agriculture and health with a focus on the developing world. It develops a conceptual framework that brings together the various links between agriculture and health into a single broad framework. The framework comprises the core components of the agricultural supply chain (producers, systems and outputs), key health concerns and the mechanisms of common interaction between the agricultural and health components: income, labour, environment and access -- all key social determinants of health.

Agriculture and health are linked in many ways. First, agriculture is essential for good health: it produces the world's food, fibre and materials for shelter; in many countries it is also an important source of livelihood among the poor. At the ...

09/14/2025

Pulling herbs off the drying racks today… and processing for storage.

Oregano, yarrow, linden, lemon balm, and rosemary