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The shop provides a wide range of herbal medicines, vits & supplements, herbal skincare & a herbal dispensary. Next door is Napiers Clinic.
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Address

18 Bristo Place
Edinburgh
EH11EZ

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 6pm
Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+441312255542

Website

http://www.napiers.net/

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About us

Herbal Medicine is in my blood. As a child growing up on an organic small holding in 1970s Wales, I easily fell into the rhythm of the seasons.

My parents, latecomers to the back to the land movement, decided that a few acres and self-sufficiency was the key to a good life. The dream might have been hard work, but it was paradise for a child and I watched, entranced, as cough syrups were made alongside our own attempts at butter and cheese making. When my father visited a local herbalist to find a cure for his ulcer I was, as usual, glued to his side, watching everything that was going on. The resulting foul tasting mix of herbs, as well as some wise dietary advice, literally changed his life.

These early years had a lasting impact. Some years later, having already done a degree in Social Sciences, I found myself back at school again, this time studying Herbal Medicine at the Collage of Phytotherapy in Tunbridge Wells. My sister was also passionate about plants and had already decided to become a herbalist and I was following in her footsteps.

Once qualified my sister ended up taking her herbal skills to Canada, via a brief spell in Glasgow, and I was honoured when Jan de Vries asked me to take over the Herbal practice at Napiers in Edinburgh.

The Napier Years

Duncan Napier was an eminent Victorian herbalist and botanist. Born in Edinburgh, he was orphaned at an early age and brought up by the local innkeeper. A baker to trade, he developed a chronic cough from exposure to the flour dust and decided to take matters into his own hands in his search for a remedy. After coming across a book on herbal medicine at a local market stall on Nicolson St, he experimented with the herbal recipes it contained and made a Lobelia Cough Syrup. He vomited each time he took the mixture, but as his wife pointed out, after a few months he was cured. Lobelia is an emetic, and he had got the dose wrong, but the herbs had worked.

Duncan started to make other herbal medicines, trying them out on his friends and family, collecting herbs and plants from Edinburgh and the Borders. He became a member of the Edinburgh Botanical Society and, encouraged by his contemporaries, opened his first herbal shop on Bristo Place, Edinburgh on the 25th of May 1860.

The first shop was not the present premises of Napiers. After 14 years of growing the practice and a growing demand for herbs, it was necessary to find a much bigger space, and in 1874 Duncan moved along the street to the current corner site at 18 Bristo Place.

The shop and clinic at Bristo Place remains open to this day and is now Scotland's oldest remaining herbal house. In the course of time, his sons went into the business with him and it became D. Napier and Sons.