“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across a thousand miles and all the years we have lived.” – The Importance of the Sense of Smell by Helen Keller. Perfume as Medicine One of the first books I ever bought on the topic of herbal medicine was The...
There aren’t any motorways in Cornwall – just one road (the A30) which is effectively the only way to get in or out of the county. Every August, up to a hundred thousand visitors flock to our laid-back coastal village. Snaking through the fume-choked bottle...
Small children are naturally good at identifying plants. Being closer to the ground, they spend a lot more time looking at their feet. The game of “jumping over pavement cracks” often introduces them to their first herbal friends (mostly ribwort and dandelions.) They...
It was as a student in Spain many years ago, that I first experienced the real power of food as medicine. It was 1993. I was a 20-year-old student living in the beautiful city of Seville. It was Semana Santa (Easter week,) a huge deal in the spanish calendar. Being a...
That Old Chestnut… Most people are familiar with the chestnut tree, having learned to identify it as children from the spiky cases and glossy conkers which fall in the Autumn. Horse chestnut is an invaluable medicine in any modern herbal dispensary, but the...
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