Althaea Natural Health

Althaea Natural Health I’m Jen, a lover of nature and natural medicine. I’m an aromatherapist and reflexologist and am studying a six year NIMH course to become a medical herbalist.

Follow along to
learn all about the wonder of natural remedies! ✨🌿🌸

04/03/2026

✨🌿Put sound on for wave sounds! 🌊✨
In naturopathy we believe that nature in its most simple and gentle forms can cure people of many different ailments. Cold water, sunlight, walking in nature, healthy nutrition, herbs and other gentle therapies such as aromatherapy and reflexology can all help to rebalance the body and mind and bring us back to health. Try to spend as much time in nature as you can, relax and slow down, and allow yourself time to just be… 🌿✨💚

🧪✨Let’s talk about the magical science of essential oils! 🍋🌸🪻✨When I trained as a holistic therapist when I was 20 (25 y...
27/02/2026

🧪✨Let’s talk about the magical science of essential oils! 🍋🌸🪻

✨When I trained as a holistic therapist when I was 20 (25 years ago!!) my favourite therapy was aromatherapy. Using these healing plants in a little bottle connected me to nature in a way I’d not felt before. 😍

🧪✨Aromatic plants aren’t just nice smelling - they contain chemical constituents that are part of the plants defence system- these are known as secondary metabolites and protect the plant from viruses, bacteria and mold, and from pests such as insects and animals who eat them!
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🌿👱‍♀️What’s more amazing is that humans and plants have co evolved symbiotically over millennia which serves both sides! Humans help to cultivate plants and plants help humans by providing us with oxygen, food and medicine. The medicinal part is where essential oils come in! Plants and people share very similar biological and physiological processes (remember how animal and plants cells share many similarities from when you studied biology at school?!) 📚 🪴🏃‍♂️🌿

✨✨This is why the secondary metabolites that serve plants so well and take care of their wellbeing and health also serve OUR wellbeing and health! Plants have been a part of pharmacopeia’s for centuries- it’s only in recent years that people have become skeptical of the ability of plants to heal us. There is increasing scientific research that shows just how much essential oils can help us too! 🍋 ✨🌿🥰

✨Aromatherapy isn’t just a scent therapy (more on that in another post!) it is a therapy that helps alleviate many health issues that we have. Plants are amazing and so are we! Let’s work together and keep that bond that we have developed going forward to the coming millennia 🌿✨💚🪻💐🍁✨🌿🫚🌱🪻

📷 Photo taken by me - Water mint in Cumbria ✨🌿

👣✨🌸Hi! I’m Jen and I’m offering reflexology treatments for FREE! (More details below!)🙂Did you know that reflexology off...
25/02/2026

👣✨🌸Hi! I’m Jen and I’m offering reflexology treatments for FREE! (More details below!)🙂

Did you know that reflexology offers a natural method for you to really look after your health? Reflexology helps to address many issues including…

🥱Insomnia
🤕 Headaches and migraines
😥Stress
😔Anxiety and depression
👩‍💼Issues with the female cycle

And so much more! 👣✨

I’m deeply passionate about helping you to live your most healthy and happy life 🌱✨
I’m offering reflexology treatments for FREE as I am doing some CPD to update my skills and would like some lovely volunteers to do case studies on. If you’ve always wanted to try out reflexology now is the time- just send me a message! I’d love to work with you.
Healing wishes,
Jen ✨👣🌸

20/02/2026

✨Are Maple and I the only ones really quite excited about the snow drops and other shoots that are popping up all over? I do love the crisp Winter, and snowdrops are of course the quintessential Winter plant- but they always remind me that Spring with its new life is on its way, even in the rain- and it fills me with such joy! 🪻🌦️🌿

✨The festive season is now over for another year but Holly (Ilex aquifolium) hasn’t twigged on yet!🪾🌿✨Holly is still ver...
13/01/2026

✨The festive season is now over for another year but Holly (Ilex aquifolium) hasn’t twigged on yet!🪾🌿

✨Holly is still very much present in the local woods of the North and is such a splendid plant to behold! Strong, self protective and enduring with spiky leaves, and woody stem, Holly is a perennial whose life span can reach centuries and who can easily survive hard winters.

✝️The common name Holly comes from the word Holy as this striking plant was thought to have sprung up under Christ’s feet as he went to execution~ the thorny leaves representing his suffering and the red berries, his blood. Other common names are Holy Tree and Christ’s Thorn.

😓In historical medicinal use, Holly leaves have been used as a diaphoretic (promoting sweating) febrifuge (reducing fever) and general tonic. Their medicinal actions are said to be from the alkaloid Ilicin.

😷The berries on the other hand are considered toxic to humans though blackbird do enjoy them! When consumed by people they cause severe vomiting

🦵🩹The bark and leaves were also used in a fermentation for the treatment of broken bones according to Culpeper, the 15th century herbalist pioneer!

✨Holly is not used in modern herbal dispensaries ~ in the U.K. hawthorn is one of the main native trees which are still used in practice! Best to leave Holly for your Holly boughs at Christmas time!🎄✨

12/09/2025

Introducing….

✨’Aromatherapy for the soul and emotions’ ✨

🌸As a natural health practitioner I know all to well how the emotions affect our mental and physical wellbeing. At least 75% of ill health is caused by stress~ and I myself have felt the repercussions of this ❤️‍🩹

🌿’Sessions in aromatherapy for the soul and emotions’ are an opportunity for you to explore, understand and give space to your emotions with the support of nurturing and powerful essential oils, with me, Jen by your side.

🌼It’s powerful, it’s nourishing and it’s important.
To book with me to go on a journey to help heal your relationship with your emotions send a message. 💕🌿✨

🪴🪴Did you know peppermint (Mentha x piperita) is a natural painkiller? As well as its decongestant and digestive affinit...
02/08/2025

🪴🪴Did you know peppermint (Mentha x piperita) is a natural painkiller? As well as its decongestant and digestive affinities, this plant can ease muscular- skeletal pain as well as headaches and migraines 💆‍♀️
In my own experience, when over the counter analgesics haven’t worked, peppermint essential oil has been a life saver for my easing the pain of headaches and migraines! This oil is rather potent so only use a drop or two for inhalation on a tissue 💚

‼️Caution ~
DO NOT USE FOR CHILDREN under the age of 10, particularly on or near the face as this can cause serious issues, including asphyxiation.

✨🌱Did you know our name sake Althaea means healer? I chose this name carefully as my aim is to help heal in the most gen...
26/05/2025

✨🌱Did you know our name sake Althaea means healer? I chose this name carefully as my aim is to help heal in the most gentle and natural of ways. Althaea is Greek in origin and is also the name of the beautiful marshmallow plant which used to be used to flavour marshmallows! Isn’t Altheae a stunning plant! ✨🌱

26/05/2025

🌱We are taking bookings NOW for treatments to boost your health wellbeing naturally and kindly!

📔 The diary is open from July 21st 2025 ~ just message to book. Appointments will take place in my treatment room in Penshaw (Mobile visits are available at an additional cost for female clients).

🌷✨Aromatic medicine treatment ~
~ full or part body massage

👣✨Reflexology treatment

💆‍♀️ ✨ Indian Head Massage

💚Holistic therapies are proven to reduce stress which is linked to the development of chronic ill health. They can also help address many issues such a pain, migraine and headaches, sleep disturbance, lymphatic flow and circulation, menopausal distress and far more.

To book and request a price list simply send a message! I can’t wait to welcome you and provide you with the ‘you time’ you absolutely deserve.

Healing wishes,
Jen 🌱🌼

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