Cold and Flu Prevention for Kids and Adults
With a special kitchen demo on making medicinal bone broths – a nutritional powerhouse for your immune system.

With Herbalist Karina Brown

Saturday, November 3 from 11:15 to 1:15
$20 for gym members, $25 for non-members. Sign up here.

• Learn easy and delicious ways to add tonic herbs and foods to your family’s daily diet that strengthen resistance to stress and sickness
• Learn to use herbs and medicinal foods to quicken your recovery from colds and flu
• Learn which herbs are safe for kids, and how to make them yummy enough for little tastebuds!
• Learn to safely treat fever as the potent healing force that it is
• Use herbs to soothe and treat the symptoms of sickness, while enhancing your body’s
natural healing ability


We will begin with prevention, covering the nutrients and dietary changes that are necessary for a properly functioning immune system, as well as the herbs and foods that enhance immunity like bone broths, medicinal mushrooms and adrenal adaptogens.

Throughout class, I will pass around tasters of delicious medicines that I have made myself, from plants I harvested in Oregon forests and fields.

Next, we will talk about treatment. I will cover fever in detail: fever’s function in the body, the importance of not suppressing this vital healing mechanism, and how to use herbs to support and quicken the fever process.

I will cover herbs that kids can safely take when sick or to prevent sickness – and ways to make them yummy enough to go down easily! Together, we will make a supercharged bone broth that contains tons of nutrients and medicine to improve immunity for you and your family. We will talk about ways to get this powerful food into your daily diet.

Everyone will go home with a big bag of medicinal broth as well as recipes to make more. I will also be selling homemade versions of many of the medicines we discuss.

Karina Brown has spent the last three years studying with Portland-area plant teachers. She has studied at The School of Forest Medicine, The School of Traditional Western Herbal Medicine, The Columbines School of Botanical Studies, and The Arctos School of Botanical Medicine.

Karina offers herbal consultations for all kinds of health challenges. Email her (karinabrown27 – AT – gmail) to set up an appointment. She makes and offers tinctures, elixirs, tea blends, home-made bone broths and other medicines created from wild plants.