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Our resources promote public and educational awareness medicinal plants for enhancing health and preventing disease, and as safe, low-risk medicine.
The new era of medicine today heralds the integration of plant medicine. As science is proving the fundamental importance of medicinal plants to human health, they are now used to both help prevent disease and enhance general wellbeing, and to safely treat a range of common conditions with few if any side-effects.
Explore medicinal plants and nature to enhance your health, and your life! Our growing collection of blog resources offer expert information, practical tools and guidance to help you embrace medicinal plants, responsibly and effectively. Before diving into the blogs, learn more about our overall approach, that is rooted in scientific research.
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Nature is Medicine!
Scientific research is increasing verifying that nature-based recreation and spending time in natural environments significantly benefits our emotional and physical wellbeing, across all age groups, including youth, adolescents, the elderly and those with mental and physical health issues.
Amazing benefits of community groups and gardening on your physical and mental health, rooted in scientific research.
Scientific research shows that participating in community groups and gardening provides significant benefits for both our physical and mental health. These include increased physical activity, improved dietary habits, enhanced wellbeing and social support, reduced stress and anxiety, better mood, and improved cognitive function.
Soak up the sunshine, especially morning sunlight, and improve your health
Sunlight, and especially morning sunlight, improves our health. Simply being outdoors absorbing sunlight to make vitamin D benefits us in a number of ways. Sunlight-induced vitamin D production is vital for maintaining bone health, supporting immune function, regulating mood, and promoting cardiovascular health and adequate sunlight exposure and sufficient vitamin D levels play significant roles in regulating circadian rhythms, improving sleep quality, and potentially reducing the risk of sleep disorders
Why Medicinal Plants Matter: 3 Powerful Ways They Shape Modern Health
Throughout history, plant medicine has been the foundation of healing. Both humans and animals have evolved alongside medicinal plants, harnessing their natural properties for treatment. Before the chemical revolution, 200 years
Overall Approach and Responsible Use
Our Blogs Provide
Easy-to-Follow Guides and Recipes: Learn how to incorporate medicinal plants into your daily routine.
Support for Key Areas of Health: Explore ways to improve immune, digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, brain, and skin health.
Solutions for Modern Challenges: Find plant-based approaches to managing anxiety, depression, insomnia, and cognitive decline.
Sustainable Practices: Learn to grow, source, and prepare plant medicine in ways that respect both your health and the environment. Increasing wild green spaces (which naturally contain native medicinal plants) provides a place for wellbeing in the community, and is essential to restoring biodiversity, especially in the UK, one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.
Health, Prevention, and Safer Treatments
Incorporating a diverse range of medicinal plants into our diets and lives can:
Improve Physical and Mental Health: Medicinal plants not only support health and help address causes of many chronic conditions, they also enhance our life and overall wellness.
Help Prevent Chronic Disease: Edible medicinal plants – including herbs, spices and a range of fruit and vegetables, contain vital phytochemicals that help reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes and cognitive decline, and that are immune supporting, anticancer, antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal.
Provide Safer Treatments: When used correctly – the correct plant medicine and at the correct therapeutic level, plant medicine can effectively treat a range of common conditions, often with fewer side effects (such as addiction risk) compared to pharmaceuticals.
Responsible Use is Essential
While medicinal plants are powerful allies for health, proper use is crucial:
Consult Experts: Speak with a NIMH medical herbalist or healthcare professional before using medicinal plants for children, during pregnancy, or if you have a medical condition, allergy or take medications.
Never Stop prescribed medications without professional advice.
Choose Reputable Sources: Always source plant products and supplements from trusted suppliers -from companies that list their full ingredients, prepare products correctly to standards.
Do not buy or harvest endangered species.
Transforming Health with Medicinal Plants
Our evidence is grounded in scientific research, combined with an understanding of the unique benefits of each plant. By reconnecting with the natural world, and our forgotten knowledge of using the medicinal plants around us, using science as the bridge, we rediscover how plants enable people to thrive.
Only Way Forward: If we start teaching medicinal plant use, nutrition, and health & wellbeing awareness alongside core subjects like maths and English now, we could transform our nation’s health within a generation—removing the strain on the NHS by addressing its challenges, like an ageing population and a rise of long-term illnesses.
Is it possible to imagine a time when humans can be more self-sustaining, and our healthcare systems primarily address unavoidable illnesses supported by adequate medical resources?
