Add herbarium pages to your materia medica 🌿

Published: Wed, 06/14/23

Hi ,

Do you have a materia medica?

A materia medica is a type of herbal reference journal that herbalists use to keep notes about the plants they use and study. It typically includes feedback about your personal experiences with each plant, along with a “monograph” or in-depth plant profile for each of the herbs featured within.

If you learn how to press and preserve your own plants, then you can add beautifully preserved plant specimens to your monographs!

This will transform your materia medica into a working herbarium—adding more detail, texture, and beauty to your herbal study notes.

Do you want to add herbarium pages to your materia medica?

HERE'S HOW

There are many different styles and techniques that herbalists use when creating their own materia medica, and the process offers a lovely opportunity for you to put your own creative twist on your herbal reference materials.

In our Flower Pressing for Herbalists Workshop, Herbal Academy team member Hannah Lasorsa shares a tour of her materia medica, which combines traditional monograph pages with herbarium entries, recipe cards, and photographs. Her unique style lends a scrapbook-type feel to her materia medica design.

In Lesson 4 of our Flower Pressing for Herbalists Workshop, we share printable templates that make it easy to build your materia medica in a 3-ring binder—adding more pages, or re-arranging things as you see fit!

Our downloadable pages include:

A 2-page monograph template, with room to add the plant’s names, native habitat, beneficial uses, and more.
Beautifully illustrated recipe cards, so you can keep track of your favorite recipes for each herb.
Herbarium Cards so you can accurately label each herbarium page with the preserved plant’s identity, the location you found it, and more.

Are you ready to fill your materia medica with pressed plant specimens?

GET STARTED HERE

LAST CHANCE for 20% off the Herbal Materia Medica Course!

Our Herbal Materia Medica Course and our Flower Pressing for Herbalists Workshop pair beautifully, which is why we’ve bundled them together for a special savings that ends at midnight tomorrow.

With this combo, you’ll learn how to build your dream materia medica and then fill it with beautifully preserved plant specimens via herbaria pages.

Enroll in the Flower Pressing for Herbalists Workshop with the Field Flower Press upgrade before midnight tomorrow (June 15), to automatically receive 20% off the Herbal Materia Medica Course at checkout.

Have questions? Don’t hesitate to contact us!

And if you have or create your own materia medica, then we hope you’ll share a photo of it on social media and either tag @herbalacademy or use the hashtag #myherbalstudies in your caption so we can see it and cheer you along!

We hope to see you in class,

Sincerely,

Your friends and educators
The Herbal Academy Team
theherbalacademy.com

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