Edava Botanics

09/11/2025

As a teen I frequently suffered from breakouts and feelings of irritation emotionally and on my skin.

Once I began looking into herbs, I realised that it might be my liver that was calling out for support!

I slowly began implementing milk thistle capsules and Dandelion and burdock tea and I noticed that I didn’t feel as irritated and my skin wasn’t as hot and inflamed 🔥

Our liver is a vital organ, it is constantly working so that are insides are clean and happy. So why not help it sometimes and give it a bit of support with herbal medicine?

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*Disclaimer - As always if you are not sure about taking herbal medicine, or are taking medication, pregnant, breastfeeding or are experiencing any severe health conditions, it’s properly best to pop to your local qualified herbalist before you start taking any herbs! 🌿

10/10/2025

I also had the pleasure of providing a mini lecture on a subject that is very close to my heart, and that is radiation dermatitis - specifically when it is linked to Radiotherapy causes.

● Burns, skin irritations, infection, pain, increased skin aging and hypo/hyper pigmentation are some of the many symptoms that can occur in radiation dermatitis.

● Treatment of these burns are limited in conventional medicine, and there is also the stigma that is attached to topical steroids, which can negatively influence patient adherence and, therefore, affect healing rate.

● Therefore, is there an opportunity for a medical herbalist to be providing natural topical approaches to help mitigate the symptoms of radiation dermatitis?

● In my mini lecture we went through lots of different information about things to consider when trying to support those with radiation dermatitis and much more.

This is a subject that I want to talk more about and delve into deeper, as like I said it was a 'mini-lecture'.

Thank you to all who listened and I very much enjoyed doing the lecture for you all 🌿✨️

10/10/2025

I had the pleasure of hosting a fire cider workshop at Northern Herbalist Meet - Autumn Edition 🍂

Fire cider is a great and easy way to make your own immune boosting tonic, which can be taken daily throughout the autumn and winter months!

I really enjoyed creating this meet alongside other members of the team at Herbal Apothecary and thank you to everyone who came and it was lovely to meet you all too 💕

04/10/2025

Being a a Medical Herbalist is my life’s dream! But often people ask me what I actually do or at least what goes into my job….

So I decided to create this post to give a bit of information about the process that it takes to make your herbal prescription after you have come for a consultation with me!

All herbs are carefully chosen based on their characteristics, constituents and effects on the body, which will be suited to you to help create wellness ✨

Dyl x

15/09/2025

I think I need a bigger bookshelf! But what's better than on a wet and cold autumn afternoon to curl up with a good book and read about herbs! 🍂

As promised, I thought I would create a few posts with some tips of where to begin looking into studying herbal medicine!

So I have took a few books off my bookshelf and I would highly recommend them!

● Hedgerow Medicine - this is the first book I was bought on herbal medicine on my 11th birthday and I treasure it dearly. It's fantastic to start learning about herbs which can be easily found in the hedgerows and how to begin making you herbal medicine from identifying and foraging them! 🌿

● Medical Herbalism by David Hoffman - My grandparents bought my this as a congratulations present for getting onto the herbal medicine degree course. This is the first book I asked for off the reading list and it has proved invaluable! It is a bit more scientific, but written in an easy to understand way! It goes through each individual bodily system, common health issues and herbs to match to them! It gives a huge list of herbs and their indications in the back too! ☀️

● A working herbal Dispensary - this is the most recent purchase of mine and I love it! Lucy Jones gives a great account of lots of different herbs, their historical applications, how to use them and recipes too! Plus the book is so pretty and colourful I love having it on my shelf! ❤️

● Energetic Herbalism - A great book if you need Energetic Herbalism broken down to you into easily digestible pieces. Kat makes it easy to understand tissue states, constitutions of herbs and much more. I would definitely recommend if you are advancing in your learning and starting to look at Energetic Herbalism 🌿

● The complete herbal tutor - Just get this book! It's a fantastic and easy to understand book about herbs. It shows what herbs to what, how to use them and how to chose the right ones for the appropriate illness....As you can tell I have used this book a lot for a reference throughout my studies! It served me very well! ✨️

So there you go! These are great beginners to intermediate books on herbal medicine and a few of my favourites too!

13/09/2025

I thoroughly enjoyed giving a talk about Herbs found in your Home! 🌿 Often herbal medicine is just sitting and waiting your cupboard....as we often done think of general kitchen herbs and spices having powerful medicinal uses! However in this talk I wanted to show people how something as humble as thyme can be a powerful warrior in your medicine cabinet! It was great doing this talk and chatting to people afterwards about how they never expected garlic, cinnamon or peppermint to do so many fabulous things! I also rounded the talk off with a bit of herbal medicine history and a few legendary herbalists were mentioned.....Culpeper to be one of them ✨️☀️🌿

Our director of Herbal Medicine, Dylan Parry, giving a talk on herbal medicine at our Discovery Day on Saturday!

18/07/2025

Had an absolutely fantastic day today at in Derbyshire for the festival!

Thank you to all the team at Weleda and all the speakers! All the talks were fabulous and very interesting to hear about such a multitude of topics!

Things I learnt today:

● Get out in nature as much as possible! It actually increases cognitive functioning and decreases anxiety!🌳

● Homeopathy and Arnica have their place in integrative oncology 🌼

● Practitioners showing empathy increase patient safety, promotes faster healing and decreases practitioner Burnout. 💗

● Arnica and other daisy family members are beneficial tools to have in your integrative medical toolkit..for many reasons...🌼

● How to integrate herbs into conventional healthcare and if we all utilised integrative medicine how much we could save the NHS per year.

● Biodynamic farming and how phases of the moon affect our plants and how to use it to our advantage 🌙

● How important community is and how peoples viewpoints are beginning to change on using nutrition, herbs, lifestyles changes before conventional medicine. ☀️

● How much I love plants! Seeing lots of poisonous plants today was fantastic! 🌿

● Chums exist (cherry and plum hybrid) very tasty 🍒

● How badgers help the compost stay healthy - this was my favourite learning experience 🦡

Cannot wait for the next one!