Blog Resources
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, we now use them 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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The Waiting Gardens of the North
We’re pleased to have been working in association with renowned Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz, for his current exhibition The Waiting Gardens of the North at Baltic. Commissioned by Baltic in partnership with the IWM
Wild garlic and garlic for disease prevention
Wild Garlic Allium ursinum (wild garlic or ransoms), and including information on Allium sativum (garlic). Make garlic part of your regular diet. Garlic is a readily available powerful foodstuff medicinal plant.
Four Thieves Vinegar
Food is Medicine Salvia officinalis Common/European sage Add all ingredients to a clean glass jar, ensuring all herbs are covered by the vinegar. Allow to stand for one month in a
Sage and Chickpea Chips
Food is Medicine Salvia officinalis Common/European sage Put the milk, butter and garlic in a pan over a high heat and bring to a simmer and butter has melted. Reduce the
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?
