27/05/2026
In my bid to make more home 🏠 grown / foraged medicines this year, here’s my first ever Sweet Chestnut 🌰 tincture. I made friends with another forager whilst I was gathering this too - a Romanian 🇷🇴 lady with a wealth of herbal wisdom from her home country. We chatted for ages!
I’m getting an increasing number of young men seeing in clinic worried about their fertility, and that’s exactly what Sweet Chestnuts were, and still are used for. But I’ve just tinctured the leaves and flower buds and I’ll experiment on myself once it’s finished. The leaves were used as a tonic and to treat fevers. The flowers are used to make a Bach Flower Remedy for people who are absolutely at the edge of what they can cope with, so I’m looking forward to trying it out- look 👀 how frothy it is 😄!