If you haven’t made herbal cold/flu/COVID care kits for your household yet, now is the time! Herbal care kits are one of our very favorite things. Here’s the premise: when you’re sick, it’s hard to think, no matter how good an herbalist you are. So get the stuff you’re going to need ready ahead of time! It’s like taking care of your future self.

Plus, it’s likely that you’re the herbalist in your household – so you’re going to need to take care of everyone else too! But life doesn’t stop just because someone gets sick, so if you make care kits for everyone, then even if they get sick at the most inconvenient time – no problem. You’re already ready!

There’s two steps to this process. First, think about each person in your household, and how they tend to get sick. Then, plan your kits based on that.

For us it goes like this: Ryn tends to get a sore throat and a cough, or a stomach ache, whereas Katja always starts with an earache or headache. Even if we have the same bug, that’s where things tend to settle in our bodies. So in our kit, we’ll put some generally-applicable items – like herbs to steam with – but we’ll also put things in for headache and earache/ear infection, as well as items for sore throat, cough, and stomach ache.

Today’s episode is all about how we make our care kits, so that you can make yours more easily!

The natural next question is, what are the things we should put in our herbal care kits, for ear infections and sore throats and coughs and and and…?

We’ve got you! We made the Cold & Flu mini-course for exactly this reason! It’s got everything you need both to prepare your body to stay strong when folks are getting sick, and to deal with all the symptoms if you do get sick. It even has a simple reference chapter that goes through each kind of symptom individually, so you can mix and match your strategies to meet each person’s specific situation.

Like all our offerings, this self-paced online video course comes with free access to twice-weekly live Q&A sessions with us, lifetime access to current & future course material, open discussion threads integrated in each lesson, an active student community, study guides, quizzes & capstone assignments, and more!

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