Apothecary’s rose Rosa gallica var. officinalis. Damask rose Rosa × damascena, and Dog rose Rosa canina The UK’s much-loved heritage garden plant is being rediscovered as a medicinal plant for wellbeing through scientific research – particularly for the mood improving effects of the aromatic oil and flower extracts of the Damask rose. Heritage Used medicinally for
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Here we celebrate the world’s most scientifically proven botanical calm balms. Humans have used the plants around them to help calm the mind and soothe the nervous system throughout history. Today, these traditional medicines are being investigated in controlled clinical trials around the globe, giving us a growing evidence base for their use in managing
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Some of our most important discoveries about how the brain works were made thanks to plants. Long before high-tech labs and brain scans, nature had already packed the answers into leaves, roots, resins and flowers. Many of today’s medicines, and even entire systems of pharmacology, owe their existence to humble, but sometimes highly potent, medicinal plants.
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