Medicinal Botanicals

10/01/2024

New in store The Ethno Botanical.
A world tour of Indigenous plant knowledge. 🌿🍍☀️🍁🌾🌿🎋 Open every sunny day🌞

12/09/2022

~ Reading Inspiration ~

Here's a few books which have really inspired me lately...

~ Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

I've read this one many times over the years, & love Robin's incredible way of brading together the notion of reciprocity with the land, indigenous wisdom, botany & poetic words. If you're following my page, just go read it, it's great.

"Kimmerer embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers....she brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return" - words from Goodreads.

~ Woman in the Wilderness by Miriam Lancewood

I read this last year at a time when I was contemplating/dreaming of escaping to the bush to get away from it all! It's an inspiring & uplifting read.

"tells how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really matters in life. Miriam is a young Dutch woman living in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband. She lives simply in a tent or hut, and survives by hunting wild animals and foraging edible plants, relying on only minimal supplies. For the last six years she has lived this way, through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated in the bush. She loves her life and feels free, connected to the land, and happy." - words from Goodreads

~ The Way Home, Mark Boyle
I loved this book, renouncing all technology & returning to the old ways. Very inspiring. Mark also wrote 'The Moneyless Man' describing his year living without money, also a good read, although I enjoyed The Way Home more.

"No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb.... Mark explores the hard won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging and fishing.

What he finds is an elemental life, one governed by the rhythms of the sun and seasons, where life and death dance in a primal landscape of blood, wood, muck, water, and fire – much the same life we have lived for most of our time on earth. Revisiting it brings a deep insight into what it means to be human at a time when the boundaries between man and machine are blurring. - words from Goodreads

I'd love to hear of any inspiring / uplifting books you've read lately?? I'm ready for my next read.

26/12/2020

Time-travel to the dawn of modern medical science via the stunning art of a self-taught woman illustrator and botanist.

16/09/2020

Our medicine, cosmetics and other everyday products contain compounds taken from nature. But Traditional Owners may not have given permission for the materials or their knowledge to be used.

19/08/2020

We love bees!

Check out this BMJ article.

Honey out performs usual treatments (including over the counter remedies from pharmacies) for relief of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) symptoms!

https://lnkd.in/ghUPjRW

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/28/bmjebm-2020-111336

Background Antibiotic over prescription for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) in primary care exacerbates antimicrobial resistance. There is a need for effective alternatives to antibiotic prescribing. Honey is a lay remedy for URTIs, and has an emerging evidence base for its use. Honey has...

16/08/2020

This beautiful gift pack includes: TRADITIONAL HEALERS OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA Ngangkari are the traditional healers of the NPY Lands in Central Australia. For thousands of years, Ngangkari have looked after the physical and emotional health of their people. For the first time Nangkari share their stor...

04/07/2020

In times of social distancing, green areas are more important than ever