Edava Botanics

31/12/2025

Hello everyone!

Please see my previous post to be updated on why I am changing my prices!

I decided to do an end of year review for my business and realised that how I run it will have to change!

I would like to thank everyone for their support throughout the year and I hope everyone has a prosperous and wonderful 2026!

Best wishes, Dylan x

31/12/2025

Thank you 2025! For the lessons above everything else ✨

This year has been the first year of starting my business and after reviewing everything, I hardly broke even (If not a bit under).

Starting a business is tough, especially when you have never done it before! I came straight out of uni, fresh 21 year old with no financial backing or any experience.

I can say that this year has had its many ups and downs, I find it hard to charge the right and sustainable amount to those who are needing help with their health as I think it should be accessible to everyone! I often found myself reducing my rates and giving things away for free, as I wanted to help out as much as I could.

However, I have now learnt the hard way that it is unsustainable for me to run my business like this, as it’s not a business but more of a charity with my own pocket funding it - how can I look after myself and give care to others if I cannot support myself and my business financially? You cannot water others if you do not water yourself 🌸

Furthermore, the prices of herbs are increasing significantly and my business rates for my clinic have been increased significantly too, which will have to be considered in my pricing for the New Year 🦋

Anyways, this is just the downside to being inexperienced and 2026 will be my year for running my business ethically and sustainably!

I am writing this post to be very open and honest to everyone and to make those aware of why my prices will be rising.

I love my work but I cannot unfortunately be giving it away for free. I am a fully qualified Herbalist, who worked very hard for many years to gain my skills and knowledge - I qualified with a First Class Honours BSc in Clinical Herbalism 🌿


I would like to thank everyone that has been supportive and to all of my clients in my first year of business! Things are going to change, but for the better! As I will be happier and healthier and my business will be sustainable ✨

P.s I will still be offering accessible Herbal medicine and healthcare, but at a level that is accessible to myself too.

Much love and new year’s blessings!

A quite burnt out Dylan x 🌿✨💕

20/12/2025

Good morning! 🌞

Here is a little video to show what I do to dispense a herbal medicine prescription! It's a very in-depth process to research and then finally pick and choose the herbs that go into a blend!

In this video, I am choosing herbs to support a client with emotional exhaustion and emotional imbalance.

The aim of this herbal prescription is to help to calm, uplift and regulate the nervous system to support emotional balance, whilst helping to support digestive function to bring back appetite and help support the gut microbiome, as well as helping to support the liver in metabolising out all of the stress hormones!

This unique and bespoke blend contains the following herbs:

1. Ashwagandha - a nutritive adaptogen, which helps to create resilience and calming in the body

2. Milk Thistle - a liver and kidney supportive herb

3. Vervain - Nervous system replenished and restorer, with affinity for the liver and gut health!

4. Prepared Rhemania root - a Blood builder that helps to increase the quality of the blood whilst helping to restore the adrenal glands

5. Lemon Balm - a calming and uplifting herb to the nervous system, with an affinity to help mental clarity and help regulate the gut microbiome!

6. Rose 🌹 - a herb which uplifts in times of grief and helps a sensitive and weakened heart to regain its strength 💪

What herbs do you need out of this mix?

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03/12/2025

Edava Botanics Lavender and Rose Herbal Gift set!

What does it include?

🌱 Nourish and Repair Skin cream - A luxurious silky smooth skin cream made with Calendula flowers, Frankincense and Rose Geranium to help nourish, moisturise and protect your skin 🌸

🌿 Relax and Unwind Skin Cream - A luxurious skin cream made with Lavender, Clary Sage and Bergamot to help promote relaxation, calm and even sleepiness - try using it before bed to help promote calm 🌛

🌱 Radiant Rose Water Skin Toner - made from beautiful damask roses this skin toner is helpful to made your skin glow!

🌿 Lavender, Rose and Chamomile Botanical magnesium Bath Flakes - A beautiful blend to help promote relaxation and make bath time more luxurious!

🌱 Three Herbal tea test tubes - 3 test tubes with a blend of Edava Botanics speciality herbal tea blends inside - Peaceful infusion, Defence Blend and Happy Heart ❤️

🌿 Hops and Lavender Pillow - a traditional Herbal medicine folk remedy for sleeplessness. Try and pop this in your pillow case to create relaxation, as your drift away to lavender and hop scents.

🌱 A love heart tea strainer to help strain your tea from your test tubes 🧪

Crafted by a Medical Herbalist this gift set is perfect for your loved ones who are interested in promoting their wellbeing through beautiful hand crafted and blended botanicals 💕

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01/12/2025

Do you worry about your immunity and wish you knew natural and easy ways to boost your immune system to protect yourself against winter bugs?!

Well in this winter wellness workshop - join a qualified Medical Herbalist to learn how to make your own festive fire cider using herbs found in your home, which can help support your immune system, as well as your respiratory system, nervous system and gastrointestinal health too - creating overall body wellness!

🌱 we will be sitting and learning about our own immunity and how to tackle common cold and flu symptoms such as sore throats, tickle coughs etc

🌱 learn about lots of different herbs and how we can choose specific herbs to help suit our individual bodies when we are ill.

🌱 Enjoy sipping on Edava Botanics Defence blend tea whilst creating your unique herbal blends.

🌱 Make your own festive fire cider to take home!

✨ Where is this workshop being held?
Join me in my herbal medicine dispensary located in Woodend Art Gallery Scarborough 🌸

🌸 How to book:
You can message me on my social medias otherwise pop me a message on the following to secure your place!

Email: edava.botanics@outlook.com
Phone or WhatsApp: 07706 162828

Look forward to helping you learn about herbal medicine to increase your wellbeing naturally!

Best wishes,
Dylan 🌱

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09/11/2025

As a teen I frequently suffered from breakouts and feelings of irritation emotionally and on my skin.

Once I began looking into herbs, I realised that it might be my liver that was calling out for support!

I slowly began implementing milk thistle capsules and Dandelion and burdock tea and I noticed that I didn’t feel as irritated and my skin wasn’t as hot and inflamed 🔥

Our liver is a vital organ, it is constantly working so that are insides are clean and happy. So why not help it sometimes and give it a bit of support with herbal medicine?

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*Disclaimer - As always if you are not sure about taking herbal medicine, or are taking medication, pregnant, breastfeeding or are experiencing any severe health conditions, it’s properly best to pop to your local qualified herbalist before you start taking any herbs! 🌿

10/10/2025

I also had the pleasure of providing a mini lecture on a subject that is very close to my heart, and that is radiation dermatitis - specifically when it is linked to Radiotherapy causes.

● Burns, skin irritations, infection, pain, increased skin aging and hypo/hyper pigmentation are some of the many symptoms that can occur in radiation dermatitis.

● Treatment of these burns are limited in conventional medicine, and there is also the stigma that is attached to topical steroids, which can negatively influence patient adherence and, therefore, affect healing rate.

● Therefore, is there an opportunity for a medical herbalist to be providing natural topical approaches to help mitigate the symptoms of radiation dermatitis?

● In my mini lecture we went through lots of different information about things to consider when trying to support those with radiation dermatitis and much more.

This is a subject that I want to talk more about and delve into deeper, as like I said it was a 'mini-lecture'.

Thank you to all who listened and I very much enjoyed doing the lecture for you all 🌿✨️

10/10/2025

I had the pleasure of hosting a fire cider workshop at Northern Herbalist Meet - Autumn Edition 🍂

Fire cider is a great and easy way to make your own immune boosting tonic, which can be taken daily throughout the autumn and winter months!

I really enjoyed creating this meet alongside other members of the team at Herbal Apothecary and thank you to everyone who came and it was lovely to meet you all too 💕

04/10/2025

Being a a Medical Herbalist is my life’s dream! But often people ask me what I actually do or at least what goes into my job….

So I decided to create this post to give a bit of information about the process that it takes to make your herbal prescription after you have come for a consultation with me!

All herbs are carefully chosen based on their characteristics, constituents and effects on the body, which will be suited to you to help create wellness ✨

Dyl x

15/09/2025

I think I need a bigger bookshelf! But what's better than on a wet and cold autumn afternoon to curl up with a good book and read about herbs! 🍂

As promised, I thought I would create a few posts with some tips of where to begin looking into studying herbal medicine!

So I have took a few books off my bookshelf and I would highly recommend them!

● Hedgerow Medicine - this is the first book I was bought on herbal medicine on my 11th birthday and I treasure it dearly. It's fantastic to start learning about herbs which can be easily found in the hedgerows and how to begin making you herbal medicine from identifying and foraging them! 🌿

● Medical Herbalism by David Hoffman - My grandparents bought my this as a congratulations present for getting onto the herbal medicine degree course. This is the first book I asked for off the reading list and it has proved invaluable! It is a bit more scientific, but written in an easy to understand way! It goes through each individual bodily system, common health issues and herbs to match to them! It gives a huge list of herbs and their indications in the back too! ☀️

● A working herbal Dispensary - this is the most recent purchase of mine and I love it! Lucy Jones gives a great account of lots of different herbs, their historical applications, how to use them and recipes too! Plus the book is so pretty and colourful I love having it on my shelf! ❤️

● Energetic Herbalism - A great book if you need Energetic Herbalism broken down to you into easily digestible pieces. Kat makes it easy to understand tissue states, constitutions of herbs and much more. I would definitely recommend if you are advancing in your learning and starting to look at Energetic Herbalism 🌿

● The complete herbal tutor - Just get this book! It's a fantastic and easy to understand book about herbs. It shows what herbs to what, how to use them and how to chose the right ones for the appropriate illness....As you can tell I have used this book a lot for a reference throughout my studies! It served me very well! ✨️

So there you go! These are great beginners to intermediate books on herbal medicine and a few of my favourites too!

13/09/2025

I thoroughly enjoyed giving a talk about Herbs found in your Home! 🌿 Often herbal medicine is just sitting and waiting your cupboard....as we often done think of general kitchen herbs and spices having powerful medicinal uses! However in this talk I wanted to show people how something as humble as thyme can be a powerful warrior in your medicine cabinet! It was great doing this talk and chatting to people afterwards about how they never expected garlic, cinnamon or peppermint to do so many fabulous things! I also rounded the talk off with a bit of herbal medicine history and a few legendary herbalists were mentioned.....Culpeper to be one of them ✨️☀️🌿

Our director of Herbal Medicine, Dylan Parry, giving a talk on herbal medicine at our Discovery Day on Saturday!

18/07/2025

Had an absolutely fantastic day today at in Derbyshire for the festival!

Thank you to all the team at Weleda and all the speakers! All the talks were fabulous and very interesting to hear about such a multitude of topics!

Things I learnt today:

● Get out in nature as much as possible! It actually increases cognitive functioning and decreases anxiety!🌳

● Homeopathy and Arnica have their place in integrative oncology 🌼

● Practitioners showing empathy increase patient safety, promotes faster healing and decreases practitioner Burnout. 💗

● Arnica and other daisy family members are beneficial tools to have in your integrative medical toolkit..for many reasons...🌼

● How to integrate herbs into conventional healthcare and if we all utilised integrative medicine how much we could save the NHS per year.

● Biodynamic farming and how phases of the moon affect our plants and how to use it to our advantage 🌙

● How important community is and how peoples viewpoints are beginning to change on using nutrition, herbs, lifestyles changes before conventional medicine. ☀️

● How much I love plants! Seeing lots of poisonous plants today was fantastic! 🌿

● Chums exist (cherry and plum hybrid) very tasty 🍒

● How badgers help the compost stay healthy - this was my favourite learning experience 🦡

Cannot wait for the next one!