Empowered by Nature owner Lorraine Hughes, a registered herbalist, has announced that she has started offering herbal medicine classes. The first one, titled Herbalism and Immune Health, will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on September 9, 2023, in Fishkill. Future classes will offer medicine making in the form of syrups and tinctures. 

“I am looking forward to helping people empower themselves with tools in order to mitigate and prevent ‘dis-ease’ in order to attain life-force resilience,” says Hughes, who practices Asian and Western herbal medicine and nutrition and is also an educator and reflexologist.

Hughes explains that when participants implement the recommendations offered in these classes into their daily lives, their energy levels will improve and they will lead happier and healthier lives.

“The mission of this first class and future classes is to return back to basics with daily health practices, inclusive of herbs, diet, lifestyle, movement and community,” says Hughes. “This includes embracing the plant medicines that we have in our own backyards and integrating both the Western and Asian philosophies to better understand why we get sick and how to slow down, and in some cases, reverse the process of chronic illness.”