Your new favourite herbal book! Why will The Boreal Herbal be your favourite? It’s packed full of so much easy, useable information! I just love thumbing through it and looking at all the colour photographs of the plants and the things you can do with them. If you’re just starting out in using herbs then […]
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In the News In a recent article published on Medscape talking about herbal use during pregnancy, it said, among other things, that Italian women who regularly used almond oil on their skin for at least three months of her pregnancy were prone to have preterm births. The study was what’s called “a multicenter retrospective cohort […]
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People often ask me what herbal (also known as phytotherapy) books I recommend that have a scientific backing to them. Well this is definitely one of them. Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy by Simon Mills and Kerry Bone. While it doesn’t cover an exhaustive list of western medicinal plants, it does cover 44 of some […]
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