Length

1 hour 26 minutes

Class Description

This walk will focus on the clinical uses of the medicinal plants that grow around the Great Lakes. We will look at the botanical aspects of each plant, wildcrafting methods, ways to prepare them as medicine, anecdotes, and specific uses in applying them clinically.

About the Teacher

At the age of 12 years old, 7Song was found in an abandoned mall, no one knows how he got there. In the mall, he was raised by a family of kindly lab-escaped mice who took him in as their own. They taught him how to use the plants that grew in the old planters and the cracks in the overgrown, disused parking lot. He was eventually found by a small cadre of vagabond herbalists who started living in the mall. They took him out to the fields and showed him the medicinal plants and trees. In return, 7Song taught them what he learned from the mice (which was initially difficult, as he only spoke ‘Squeak’). When they demolished the mall to put in an exclusive high-rise, he hitchhiked to Greenland, where he lived in an ice cave and only ate the foods he could forage in the nearby fjords. Fortunately, 2 caves over, lived a pair of herbalists who continued to teach him the uses of medicinal plants. Around 1994, the ice cave was cleaved by climate change, and he slowly drifted to the US, where he continued to pursue his interest in plant medicine. www.7song.com