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Welcome friends! This is an introductory guide to topical medicine – created alongside a webinar of the same name. My goal with this guide is to show you what’s possible when we look at the whole picture of health through the lens of topical medicine.

The biggest question of topical medicine is... Will this work?

Yes, well, maybe. First we need to understand the skin, what sort of chemical constituents can get in, ways to enhance absorption, what sort of conditions we can treat at the topical level... (you see where I’m going)...

Well, that’s what this guide is for.

Let’s dig in! At the bottom I’ve included details about my brand new online program, starting this weekend – All Things Topical! Enroll in time for our first live session on February 26th. → More details here.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• About Topical Medicine
• The Skin — Cool facts & its “selective permeability”
• Absorption – How things get in
• Enhancers of Absorption
• Wound Healing
• Inflammation
• Common Skin Conditions
• The right questions to ask
• Case Study
• Herbal Spotlight — Can you guess who? 🌼
• About the program: All Things Topical

About Topical Medicine

One of the things to consider about this modality of herbalism is that making topical medicine takes more time. It's not as simple as making a tincture. Since we’ve invested a lot of time and energy we want our medicine to be effective. We also don’t want to wasteful of the plants who’ve given up their lives to help make our medicine.

It’s important to know that not all herbs work topically, and the timing of when to use topical medicine is really important as well.