Liver Love: Herbs to Support Your Body’s Primary Detox Organ
This class explores the liver’s essential role in digestion, hormone balance, detoxification, and overall vitality through the lens of herbal medicine. You’ll learn how the liver functions as a central organ of transformation in both Western anatomy and traditional systems such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, where it is understood as the body’s strategic planner, responsible for the smooth flow of Qi, blood, and emotional expression.
We explore how the liver interacts with other key systems in the body including digestion, lymphatic circulation, the nervous system, and emotional processing and how modern patterns of stress, stagnation, and overload show up through this network.
From there, we move into herbal medicine, where you’ll learn how to support liver function using bitter herbs, nutritive tonics, and liver-specific plants that assist the body’s natural processes of cleansing, nourishment, and renewal. Alongside herbs, we explore simple daily practices that restore rhythm and movement in the body.
The liver’s role in digestion, detoxification, hormone regulation, and blood filtration
Western anatomical structure and physiological function of the liver
The liver’s relationship with digestion, lymph, emotions, kidneys, heart, and lungs
How Liver Qi stagnation and overload patterns show up in the body and emotions
Key tissue states associated with liver function (heat, stagnation, dryness, dampness)
Herbal actions that support liver function (bitter tonics, alteratives, cholagogues, hepatoprotectives)
Key liver-supporting herbs such as Milk Thistle, Burdock, and Dandelion
Energetic herbalism frameworks including planetary correspondences (Jupiter), taste, and element
Daily practices to support liver flow: bitters, movement, breath, and rhythmic self-care
Simple ways to integrate liver support into food, lifestyle, and herbal routines
The liver’s work is fundamentally about movement of blood, bile, Qi, lymph, and emotion.
When flow is supported, the body naturally returns to balance, clarity, and resilience. Through herbs, nutrition, and simple daily practices, we can create the conditions for the liver to do what it already knows how to do: transform, filter, and renew.
Liver Love: Herbs to Support Your Body’s Primary Detox Organ with Allison | May 29
Your liver is one of the hardest-working organs in the body. It processes everything you eat, drink, breathe, and absorb: filtering toxins, regulating hormones, supporting digestion, and helping convert nutrients into usable energy.
When the liver is supported, many systems in the body function more smoothly.
In this class, we explore how herbal medicine has traditionally been used to support liver function. You’ll learn about foundational liver-supportive herbs and how to incorporate them into simple, everyday herbal practices.
Through practical herbal knowledge and approachable plant allies, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how supporting the liver can contribute to overall vitality and balance.
What You’ll Learn:
• The core functions of the liver and why it plays such a central role in overall health
• How the liver supports digestion, hormone regulation, and detoxification pathways
• Signs the body may benefit from additional liver support
• Key herbs traditionally used to support liver function
• How herbal bitters stimulate digestion and support healthy bile flow
• Simple ways to incorporate liver-supportive herbs into daily routines
Teacher Bio:
Allison Graham
Marketing Strategist | Entrepreneur | Herbalist
Allison is an herbalist and marketing strategist who helps mission-driven brands turn their ideas into clear, effective marketing systems.
Her path into marketing began in an unexpected place — behind a bar, working as a professional bartender where she crafted drinks, read people, and learned how atmosphere, story, and experience shape the way we connect.
Alongside this work, Allison deepened her relationship with plants through the study of nutrition and herbal medicine, including programs with Ecoversity and Casa Curativa. Eventually the two worlds came together as she began crafting herbal elixirs and bringing Herbal Elixir Bars to festivals and gatherings around the world.
Her approach to herbalism is rooted in both study and direct experience. Allison works with herbs as part of daily life — exploring how teas, tinctures, and functional beverages can support the body’s natural processes and overall vitality. She is especially passionate about helping people build practical, accessible relationships with the plants that support well-being.
