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 […]
Category Archives: Herbal Medicine
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Jun
Jun
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 […]
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Jun
Jun
It’s hard to stop. We all have our favourite topic. I usually get to talk about mine to students confined to a classroom, where they are captive. It has been a long time since I went ‘out’ and talked to strangers, I have just been too busy. But when a Gardening Group asked for me […]
14
Jun
Jun
A ‘Flying’ Comment When Harvesting Nettles It’s that time of year when I drag my husband down the canal path collecting herbs. He is very useful in a lot of ways, but when I want to collect herbs he comes into his own. He reminds me of the equipment I need [I usually forget gloves […]
07
Jun
Jun
Try this first… One of the reasons I became a medical herbalist was because of gardening. I didn’t do much of it, but most of what I did do was weeding. Each time I scrabbled about and dug up a dandelion or thistle I would fling it in the wheelbarrow ready to be tipped onto […]
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May
May
Maybe not, but it did me… You know how it feels when you start to go down rabbit holes? Where you get interested in something, then intrigued? And you google something, then follow one link, then another, and another, until you can’t really remember how you got there? It started by listening to podcasts, then […]
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May
May
The one thing that is common to all… I have a lot of confidence in medicinal herbs to do their thing, but over the years I have flip-flopped a bit about what is beneficial health-wise to eat. And yet, in the end, I came to a very simple decision… As many people have found, health […]
08
May
May
Do you want to know about Herbal Medicine, without training as a practitioner? Then HerbWorks is for you! A subscription will give you access to the membership hub, which includes: live monthly Q&A sessions (starting 10am on Tuesday, 14 May) simple First Aid tips Home & Kitchen Remedies Diary of a Herbalist Here’s a short […]
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Apr
Apr
Choosing orthodox drugs and/or herbs. No, I am not here to advise you not to take your Sertraline, or Fluoxetine /Prozac or Citalopram, or any other…. Why? Because I don’t know you, nor do I know why your GP may have prescribed it. I also don’t know [because I haven’t talked to you] what you […]
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Apr
Apr
And, can anybody do it? Why bother, indeed? When the shelves of your local Pharmacy are bursting with everything you could possibly want need. Remedies for coughs and colds, for muscle strain, high blood pressure and diabetes, for headaches, skin rashes and dry eyes. Herbal medicine is labour intensive and requires some level of competency […]