We look at the pros and cons. The coming week is one of the busiest in my yearly calendar. We have just got the end of year exam results out to our students and have been organising the coming Final Clinical Exam for our students at the end of their training.  The exam is happening […]

An opinion piece in the Guardian has found a problem… Nell Frizzell wrote a heartfelt opinion piece in the Guardian on 29.08.24 and it highlighted a problem and a conundrum. The general public have been advised for years to take various problems to the local Pharmacy rather than bother their GP, who may well not […]

‘Modern medicine’ is not all we need…. I may have said this before, but I often repeat myself. If it wasn’t for modern medicine, I would be dead. I had emergency life-saving surgery in my 40s with my fair share of anaesthetic and morphine, so I am hardly in a position to criticise how the […]

Mental health treatment has moved on… I’m reading a book at the moment called Doctoring the Mind by R Bentall, and it was written in 2009. In mental health treatment, that could be construed as out of date, but the author says some interesting things, which I will come to in a minute. But firstly, […]

What could I do with no equipment? So, my husband and I are on holiday in Norway. As we are in a hotel where all the meals are provided and laundry facilities are available, we decided to book only cabin luggage; no large suitcase in the hold full of lots of stuff. This has been […]

Why I Started a Membership… One of the things I decided to do at the back end of last year was to start a membership group, and I will tell you what that is and why. I started it because I once ran a little group called HerbWorks from my home where people could come […]

I didn’t need to be asked twice This is a busy time of year for herbalists. Medicinal plants are growing fast and need harvesting. I have my own herb garden which [although needing a lot of work] does consistently provide me with Rosemary, Borage, Marshmallow, Vervain, Wood Betony, Valerian, Cramp Bark, Rose, Calendula, Motherwort, Mugwort, […]

Let a herbalist loose in a field of weeds…  Now we are old we have a motor home. This is an upgrade from camping, which we can’t manage anymore. It carries the same atmosphere as camping but without the dripping tent, lumpy mattress, and the shivering of a cold dawn trudging across wet grass to […]

Try this and see… I don’t suffer from hay fever, but if you do then I offer you my sympathy, and a suggestion. What I am about to say isn’t my idea, but what I will tell you is that it comes from a high authority [my big sister] and therefore deserves my attention. We […]