Sage House Clinic of Natural medicine

06/08/2025

I love this post, slow down, don’t rush.. get the good stuff..

04/08/2025

Look about for some of these lovely ladies..

29/06/2025

🌿 Wayside Herb of the Month: Field Horsetail - Equisetum arvense 🌿

Horsetails are often described as living fossils, as they are apparent surviving relatives of flora which dominated - both in terms of species number and size - forests which Dinosaurs inhabited in the carboniferous period over 300 million years ago.

Horsetails reproduce through spores rather than seeds, as well as underground rhizomes, so they do not flower, but instead have both ‘fruiting’ stems and ‘barren’ stems which do not produce spores, the latter are sometimes preferentially collected for medicine.

Read the full blog written by Jenny Carden-Porrett MNIMH, on our website: https://nimh.org.uk/herbal-resources/

Note: When taking herbs, we recommend seeking the advice of a qualified medical herbalist.

14/06/2025

Surprised? …

04/06/2025

Just a reminder. And I say it often and will preach it to the moon and back. 🔊🔊🔊Everything 👏 in 👏 MODERATION 👏
Because living a life of restrictions is just miserable. You can still live healthy without withholding from yourself. 🌿

25/05/2025

Beautiful little hearts

31/03/2025

Nettles…

Stinging nettles are one of my absolute 'Go To' Native medicinals.

Deanntag in gàidhlig, coming from the root word meaning to 'flay' or 'pierce' and also the Irish word for 'sting'

I really like the less common name from tha Hebrides 'Sradag' meaning 'Little spark'.

Nettles have followed humans since the start of civiliation, attracted to the Nitrogen produced by human waste. (Check out the sides of compost heaps if you need to find any nettles!)

The Romans cultivated them when they came to the UK, to flagelate their numb limbs, unaccustomed to the cold damp climate. This practice was also used in thw Highlands to treat swollen and arthritic joints.

Nettles are arich source of iron and also contains potassium and magnesiums as well as vitamins C, B, A and K.

I give nettles as tea to anyone in need of strength, whether from chronic illness or post-virus, anaemia, pregnancy, breast-feeding or post-partum.

The first little shoots now appearing are often slightly magenta in colour and are especially packed with nutrients, including antioxidant flavonoids. They make a potent and energizing tea, that actually gives a kick like caffeine.

The needles contain three neurotransmitters, Serotonin, acetylcholine and also histamine.

This is fascinating to me. These are chemicals used to communicate directly to the brain. I feel that nettles are an important healing herb for humans for this reasons- they literally want to get our attention and speak to us!

Nettles are in fact used as an anti-histamine, and in combination with Chamomile and Plantain can ease symptoms of hayfever (check out my Bright Eyes elixir)

They are a perfect food of course, added to soup or juices or as a wilted vegetable (the hairs disappear when cooked!!)

An irish May day tradition was for children to run amok with nettles, stinging folk as they passed by.

I feel the nettles calling right now, waking us up and energising us for the rising Spring and Summer ahead!

I have so much love for the humble nettle! 💚

23/03/2025

17/01/2024

Winter walks.. spotting herbs tucked in winter blankets..