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Bergitte McGovern, Medical Herbalist

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Bergitte McGovern, Medical Herbalist

Medical Herbalist with 19 years experience. Understand your true Nature and work with nature 💚

11/03/2026

Collateral benefit vs collateral damage
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06/03/2026

LOVING Spring Yellows at the moment 💛☀️🌼!

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) is often the first. At first glance many people mistake it for Dandelion, but if you look more closely you will see bracts on the flowering stem. Coltsfoot flowers come first, the leaves follow - this is botanically more unusual. Coltsfoot is really useful in treating stuck coughs - it loosens phlegm and helps to expel it. The flowers can be layered up in a jar to make a cough syrup. The flowers and leaves may be tinctured or dried.

Pilewort (Ficaria verna), also known as Figwort and Lesser Celandine is another early one! Heart shaped leaves and traditionally used in the treatment of.... Piles (giveaway name!). The roots look like little figs and so can haemorrhoids 🙈. The whole plant can be dried and infused in oil for balms or tinctured.

Dandelions (Taraxacum officinalis) - the one everyone recognises! The leaves are a great food (add to salads, wilt with other greens), the flowers are edible and can be used to make vegan 'honey' and massage oils, the leaves and roots are incredible medicines for the liver and kidneys 💪

Daffodils contain an alkaloid called galantamine, which is used to produce a pharmaceutical that slows the progression of Alzheimer's symptoms! Don't eat daffodils - they are poisonous! I once had daffodils in a pint glass. Removed them and a few hours later forgot what the pint of water had been used for, so drank it! I threw up about 15min later and then joined the dots 😂

So a few spring yellows - for the lungs, blood vessels, kidneys and liver, and memory! Foods, medicines, and joy providers 💛🙏 😅. A few spots on my cleansing and nourishing workshop are still available - we will be covering some of these and LOTS more 😊

28/02/2026

Late winter Elder (tomorrow being the start of spring)....

📷 Flowers forming already. Very early.
📷 Sunset Elder silhouette

Getting outdoors everyday and noticing the little seasonal shifts is such a gift 💚. I find they bring me into the present moment, observing, connecting and feeling a sense of harmonising and oneness.

So many plants popping up - such an exciting time of year.
Deep gratitude to Pachamama for beauty and abundance 🙏💚✨️

spring

25/02/2026

Elderberry Remedy 💜

This winter has thankfully been much gentler in terms of colds, flu, viruses and chest infections. As a result, I still have a healthy supply of Elderberry Remedy available and have decided to offer a late-winter flash sale!

🫐 200ml bottle

🫐 Usually £22.50

🫐 Now £20 (this week only, while stocks last)

🫐 Best before end 11/2027

This firm favourite is something many of you rely on through the colder months. It’s the first time I’ve offered it at a discounted price — so if you’d like to stock up for next winter (or sooner!), now is your opportunity.

To take advantage of the offer, please purchase via my dispensary shop (link in comments), whether you’d prefer collection or postage.

23/02/2026

Testimonial share:

"I would like to highly recommend the amazing herbalist, Bee.

I first went to Bee when I was struggling with peri menopausal symptoms.

My first consultation was extremely thorough and I was very impressed with Bee’s medical knowledge and she was so open and easy to talk to.

I have been with her now for about 3 years and her herbal tinctures and advice have made such a difference to my health and steered me through the menopause without any need for pharmaceutical intervention. Her emergency mix also helped with my heavy periods which were becoming a real problem for me.

She has also helped me to achieve a better place mentally, by helping me understand how I am creating my experience of life via the three principals.

This has taught me which aspects of my life are out of my control and those things which are not mine to carry. This has made a huge difference to me.

She also helped me through a knee injury with a special healing cream and altering my tincture.

Overall I am so grateful to Bee for the help she has given me. She is a very special lady."

- Helen J

🌱 ♥️ 🌱 ♥️ 🌱

Supporting women through transitions like peri-menopause and menopause is work I care deeply about. It’s a privilege to be trusted during such important seasons of change.

It is always an honour to walk alongside someone on their journey to better health and wellbeing, and I never take that trust lightly.

With Helen’s permission, I’m sharing her experience below in case it offers reassurance to someone who may be wondering whether herbal support could help them too.

I’m so grateful for the journey we’ve shared 🙏💚✨️

18/02/2026

Look after your gut and your microbiome looks after the WHOLE of you!! It may sound farfetched, but more and more researching is mounting up to show this is truly the case! From mood, to inflammation, to hormones, to heart health, to your skin and even your respiratory health – it’s all interlinked…

Eating well doesn’t have to take a lot of time, and it doesn’t have to be expensive. My breakfast today was leftover warmed up brown basmati rice (on the hob) with a few raisins, some cinnamon, milk and chia. Whilst it was warming up, I grated an apple. Popped it in a bowl, sprinkled over some hulled h**p seeds and a few almonds – voila!

Healthy fibre (soluble and insoluble), complex carbs, blood sugar regulating cinnamon, protein, healthy anti-inflammatory fats which are a good source of magnesium, calcium and other micronutrients, apple (one a day does keep the doctor away 😉) Prepped in 5 minutes, 8 plant based foods, inexpensive and it will sustain me for hours.

What are your favourite wholefood breakfast go-to's?

Wholefood = whole you.

15/02/2026

First Spring Foraging 🌱💚

On Thursday evening I had the pleasure of speaking at Calverhall and Ightfield WI, focusing on spring herbs for health and wellbeing.

It was a great evening and really engaged group, willing to taste and try various herbs and preparations. It's also the first group I have spoken to where no one was adverse to bitters 💪👌 Bitter foods are fantastic for our digestive function and microbiome, and our wild greens provide us with ample opportunity to get them into our diet free of charge 😋 💚

If you would like to learn about free greens that are nutritionally dense, and add to dietary diversity, along with learning about safe and effective spring cleansing, I will be running a Spring Cleansing and Nourishing workshop on Sat, 28th March - please check out my events for more info 🌱

26/01/2026

An important area of the work I do focuses on supporting individuals to listen to their body. Our bodies are amazing – they are always working in our best interests and working towards a state of balance and equilibrium. This can feel hard to believe if we struggle with various health conditions and chronic illnesses, but it really is the truth.

Modern diets with all sorts of additives, pesticides and ultra-processed foods, along with body products loaded with artificial ingredients, and environmental pollutants all act as noise, making it harder for our bodies intelligence and rebalancing systems to function. It has to work harder and gets ‘distracted’. How can it do housework when additional jobs and work are always being thrown at it?

With 20 years of experience as a qualified medical herbalist, who focuses on nutrition and lifestyle, I have witnessed many a person loose touch with their body’s own intelligence and loose the ability to ‘hear’ the messages the body is trying to convey. The messages are still being sent, they just aren’t heard or understood, at worst they get ignored... Modern medicine hasn’t helped as it is so symptom focused, rather than asking ‘what is the symptom trying to tell me?’, ‘what is it a messenger of?’

Whilst individuals who work with me get a treatment plan with nutritional and lifestyle recommendations, they are also supported to listen more closely to their own body and remove some of the noise. My ‘whole of you’ programme has this at it’s heart, but this approach still infuses through the other aspects of work I do.

Your body is profoundly intelligent – how about removing some noise and listening more closely?

25/01/2026

Spring Cleansing and Nourishing is about making the most of the incredible free and readily available plants around us, that support our bodies in terms of cleansing and nourishing.

Our wild plant allies are nutritionally dense and are packed with phytochemicals that our good gut bacteria love! Combine this with wild diversity and it’s really easy to up our plant-based intake every week, making use of the wonderful ‘weeds’ in our gardens and hedgerows.

Join Bee for a practical, fun and hands-on workshop, where you will get to learn how to identify a variety of plants and make use of them in everyday meals. We will talk about cleansing and supporting your body’s natural detox pathways, whilst nourishing your body at the same time - increase vitality, give yourself a boost and your system a break 💪💚

I can’t wait to bust some myths and introduce you to superfoods at your fingertips 😊

Date: Saturday 28th March, with a fall forward option of Saturday, 11th April in the event that spring hasn’t sprung!
Location: Whitchurch, Shropshire

Full details and booking info are available via the link in the comments. Just a few spaces are still available as those on my mailing list got to hear about this first. If you are keen to come do book ASAP!

18/01/2026

Midlife Metamorphosis is a guided 6 month programme, which focuses on the foundational cornerstones of health and wellbeing supporting women to transition through the perimenopause with greater ease.

We will be coming together as a small closed circle of women journeying together for 6 months, in a nurturing grounded space where simplicity and wisdom guide the way ✨️ 💕

Do check out my recent reel for further info and the link in the comments for the full details and to register interest!

This offering has been a long time coming and I am so excited to be opening the doors and welcoming those who feel called into circle 🙏 💖 🌱

09/01/2026

***WARNING – images of blood and open wound - pic 2***

Every so often I get blown away myself at just how powerful plant medicine is (despite 25 years of focusing in this direction!)

This skin tear occurred after an elderly person (88) slipped on wet paving covered with leaves (late autumn). This injury is to the forearm through 4 layers of clothing. The wound was well dressed by NHS nursing staff. A day after the fall I stepped in with an internal wound healing mix.

Pic 2 - taken on day 5 when the wound was redressed. Because the central flap is so large, the nursing staff expected this piece of skin to die and bookings were made for weekly wound dressing appointments over a period of 5 weeks.

Pic 3 - just 1 week later…. 85% of healing complete! Everyone was gobsmacked!! No further wound dressings required, all subsequent appointments cancelled. Healing balm put in place in case wound got itchy during final stages of healing

How can such rapid healing be explained it?

🥘 Firstly this person is well nourished – via their diet and a top-up of high quality supplements, meaning their body had all the building blocks available for repair from both their diet and supplementation.

🌱 Good circulation is also key (routine herbs were already in place to support this)

🩹 Wound dressing was done well and appropriately

🌼 Internal herbs were used to expediate healing from the inside-out and made a MASSIVE difference!

Medical herbalists have extensive medical training and phytotherapy training – meaning we know what herbs are most appropriate for a given situation and individual. We also know what dosage to use to ensure efficacy (and safety).

This person is actually my mum! A few people who have witnessed this phenomenal healing have encouraged me to share this story. I am hoping to share more great herb-healing stories when I get to carve out a little time to do so!

Please note I do not take on new patients who require immediate treatment for acute conditions - those already registered with me can benefit from this as I already have a full record of their medical history.

31/12/2025

New Year Blessings to You 🥳❤️✨️!

It's been a soul fulfilling and nourishing day, and I can't think of a better way to see 2025 out...

An early start (the early bird got the worm 😉), quality time with my dear mum, beloved hound and in resonance with a patch of land and sea that makes my soul sing 🎶. Home tired and deeply satisfied, full of gratitude for life, love, the ability to enjoy movement, the gift of my senses and the gift of getting present in the moment 🎁!

Life is full of ups and downs, and boy can we get caught up in it all! But our bedrock is always within us, the calm underneath the storm, the quiet wisdom that whispers gently, the formless energy we are all made from and ❤️. Coming home and re-remembering is the best medicine of all. Here is to us all connecting in with our bedrock and remembering the highs and lows are like weather passing by... always changing and never permanent. Beneath the surface is our calm - 'just' waiting for us to drop the weather / take it less seriously 😅🤗🤗

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Address

1 Field Cottages
Whitchurch
SY133NE

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 7pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+447711539488

Website

http://www.herbsbybee.co.uk/, https://herbsbybee.co.uk/dispensary/

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A little bit about Herbs by Bee

My practice is all about supporting YOU with the Power of Plants. I have over 13 years experience as a Medical Herbalist and Aromatherapist. Plant medicine is safe, effective and sustainable and can offer support to individuals at each stage of their life journey – from in the womb, all the way through to the very elderly.

Herbal medicine consultations involve getting a thorough understanding of the issue you wish to have addressed, along with a good understanding of your past medical history. Treating you holistically means I look at all the pieces of the puzzle and pull them together. Consultations may include expert nutritional and lifestyle advice, bespoke whole plant medicine and flower remedy formulations, nutritional supplements, tailored essential oil blends, and holistic therapeutic massage. Changes I recommend are tailored around you – my aim is to make them realistic, achievable and measurable. Once size doesn’t fit all.

Alongside my herbal medicine practice I run workshops, walks and talks - I LOVE getting outdoors and reconnecting people and plants. I also teach on the Heartwood herbal medicine foundation course and am the owner and founder of Bee’s Teas.

If you are interested in finding out more please check out my website.