Wildflower Therapies

22/02/2023

Here’s what’s available this week

Celebrating the arrival of spring & The British Herb garden with Organic British Lavender & British sage shear butter soaps available as flowers or as fairies

I’ve already sold a box of these so please send me a message if you would like one.

£5 each plus P&P

Mermaid soaps are coming back due to popular demand

Ive got one Mermaid Soap left.

These sell fast so send me a message if you want one £8 each

21/02/2023

Wild Pansy!

Heartsease more commonly known as the wild Pansy - The Flower of thoughts.

In myth & legend Wild Pansy or Heartsease has close associations with affairs of the heart. For its gentle & kind nature has the ability to to heal the heart, soothe pain of separation from loved ones and ease the suffering of a broken heart. In the days of Hippocrates was used as cordial remedy to lift the spirits and treat heart conditions and high blood pressure. It shows up in Shakespeare’s A mid summers night dream used as a love charm on Titania causing her to fall for an ass! And so is used in concocting love potions. Legend has it that Cupids arrow gave colour to the flower that was previously white. The word Pansy Originates from the French word Pensees meaning thought. Again showing up in Shakespear this time in hamlet when Ophelia says ‘there is Pansies - that’s for thoughts’

In Victorian times Floriography was popular a secret language spoken through flowers, and Pansies meant ‘You are in my thoughts.’ It was also believed that if you carried a Pansy it would ensure the love of their sweetheart!

It has also been called the trinity herb die to the formation of its petals and its three colours. It’s sister flower is the violet and their beautiful faces would dotted the cornfields with colours.

The flower is not used in Aromatherapy as it does not produce essential oils however it is used as a Herbal remedy for anti inflammatory skin problems such as eczema psoriasis and acne. It is a great herb for respiratory problems and coughs, fevers and swollen glands. It reduces blood pressure and strengthens capillaries. As a flower essence Heartsease is used for healing the heart. It brings comfort to those feeling hurt, rejected or lonely, disappointed in love, in separation and when broken hearts cause symptoms in those previously healthy & happy.

What a gorgeous flower.

McIntyre, A. (2002) The complete floral healer. New York: Sterling.

13/02/2023

Remedies by


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13/02/2023

The Confection Box

From Folk lore & Odysseys of Food & Medicinal Plants, Ernst & Johanna Lehrer, First Farrar, Straus & Giroux edition (1973).

In the 15th & 16th Centuries Confect or confit was used as a house holds medicine, and played the part that of our modern day medicine cabinet. A well stocked confection box contained 12 different kinds of sugary pastilles made from seeds, spices & herbs mixed with honey & saffron.

Usually including
Almonds, anise, caraway, cherry kernels
Cinnamon
Cloves
Coriander
Cubebs
Fennel
Ginger
Nutmeg
Pepper

13/02/2023

13/02/2023

The Confection Box

From Folk lore & Odysseys of Food & Medicinal Plants, Ernst & Johanna Lehrer, First Farrar, Straus & Giroux edition (1973).

In the 15th & 16th Centuries Confect or confit was used as a house hols medicine, and played the part that of our modern day medicine cabinet. A well stocked confection box contained 12 different kinds of sugary pastilles made from seeds, spices & herbs mixed with honey & saffron.

Usually including
Almonds, anise, caraway, cherry kernels
Cinnamon
Cloves
Coriander
Cubebs
Fennel
Ginger
Nutmeg
Pepper

12/02/2023

Hey everyone

Here is a box I made last week for a very dear family friend. I had an amazing time making this gift.

when I was a little girl I remember very well visiting her beautiful home & garden, In the hedge there was a big light blue glass orb, I always remember it clear as day, she told me that’s where the fairies lived.

Something to enchant, something to delight and some little medicine for the body mind and soul

This essential oil medicine box contains
30ml of Rose, Patchouli & lavender with sweet almond oil & rose buds.

Lavender & frankincense Hand cream

Lemorium - special variety of Quartz’s crystal

Tea light candle with herbal resin & essential oils

Faery magick

10/02/2023

The Physic Garden

“Since early times plants have provided medicinal remedies for the human race. The whole structure of modern pharmacopeia is based on man’s historical knowledge of flowers, herbs, plants and trees. Nature it’s self is the provided of a complete chemist of herbal and flower remedies to cure all ills of mankind.
Throughout the history of civilisation mankind has found food, nutrients, healing, life giving medicine and yes! Poisons too. This curative inquiry by mankind was completely trial and error and soon learned which ones to trust and agreed with him and which ones to say clear of.

When mankind came to master fire they began cooking animals and so animals came into the human diet which lead to domestication of animals for man’s daily needs. Where there flocks of animals a Shepard is needed. The Shepards of the land looked after their flocks, often spending long periods of isolation close to nature would observed the behaviour of nature and plants and their effects on their animals behaviours.
In this way they became the sages and medicine men of their tribes and communities. As time rolled on these men developed into the herbalists of ancient Persia.
In the early days of Christianity knowledge & cultivation of herbs was completely forbidden as knowledge of herbs was considered Pagan due to the many magical rites connected with their use. During the dark ages many herbal manuscripts were destroyed by martial rulers and so the knowledge of the herbs and plants and their properties were kept alive only by the monks in seclusion and comparative security of their monasteries.

These amazing people studied, translated and copied painstakingly by hand again and again.
Cultivation of herbs was taken back up in the Middle Ages, once again by monks & nuns who were not only healers of the soul but physicians & nurses to their flocks & this is how the Physick Garden was born and became part of every cloister & monastery, castle, court, hospital & medical college. Alchemical laboratories to distill herbs were set up in monasteries & hospitals to make there medicinal potions & liqueurs

07/02/2023

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