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~~Spring in the kitchen~~ 💜🏡🌿

~~Spring in the kitchen~~ 💜🏡🌿

~~Loving lilac this Spring~~ 💜🌿

~~Loving lilac this Spring~~ 💜🌿

~~Meet my favourite herbs~~ Hawthorn ❤️If you

~~Meet my favourite herbs~~ Hawthorn ❤️If you have driven around country Victoria, you may have seen her growing along the roadside. The distinct red berries are a visual delight. 🌸Known as "the nurse of the old heart", hawthorn (Latin name : crataegus monogyna) is a true friend of the cardiovascular system. Hawthorn increases blood supply to the heart, prevents atherosclerosis, and strengthens blood vessel walls.❤️Herbal folklore: in the Middle Ages, hawthorn was seen as a symbol of hope. It was used in the old May Day festivals for protection from evil spirits.🌸For a calming tea for the heart and nerves, combine chamomile and hawthorn. Delicious! Or, you might like to check out Caroline @thecottageherbalist ’s Love Potion No 9….a herbal tea blend infused with love.❤️References for this post:: @southernschool Materia medica lecture notes circa 2003; and A Modern Herbal by Mrs Grieve. Beautiful photo via Caroline @thecottageherbalist

~~Meet my favourite herbs~~ Chamomile is one of my

~~Meet my favourite herbs~~ Chamomile is one of my all time favourite herbs, and I dispense it in both tincture and dried form. (I use the German chamomile).☕️💛
The two widely known varieties are German chamomile (matricaria recucita) and Roman/English/Lawn chamomile (anthemis nobilis), the latter being a more bitter and stronger acting herb.
The herbalist Matthew Wood describes chamomile as a folk medicine of great antiquity in Europe.☕️💛
Mrs Grieve states, "no plant was better known to the country folk of old, it having been grown for centuries in English gardens for its use as a common domestic medicine. The fresh plant (of anthemis nobilis) is strongly and agreeably aromatic, with a distinct scent of apples - a characteristic noted by the Greeks, on account of which they named it 'ground-apple' - kamai (on the ground) and melon (an apple) - the origin of the name Chamomile. When walked on, its strong, fragrant scent will often reveal its presence before it is seen. For this reason it was employed as one of the aromatic strewing herbs in the Middle Ages, and used often to be purposely planted in green walks in gardens.”
W.T. Fernie described chamomile as "a physician to the plant world. Nothing contributes so much to the health of a garden as a number of chamomile herb dispersed about it….if another plant is drooping…in nine cases out of ten it will recover of you place a herb of chamomile near it.”☕️💛
German chamomile is an excellent childrens remedy, and is gentle enough to be used across all age groups. It calms both the nervous and digestive systems. It can assist restlessness, tension and sleep problems.☕️💛
It is also an excellent herb for relieving muscular spasm, such as period pain, colic, and pain associated with constipation.
I find it to be an incredibly relaxing herb to drink after dinner - it settles digestion, and makes for a calming pre-sleep brew. ☕️💛Photo via @ritual_botanica

~~I couldn’t agree more~~ 🌿❤️image from @

~~I couldn’t agree more~~ 🌿❤️image from @thefarwoods

~~Meet my favourite herbs~~ Foxglove. Digitalis p

~~Meet my favourite herbs~~
Foxglove. Digitalis purpurea.
🌿💗Also known as: Fairy’s glove; Witches gloves; Fairy caps & Fairy thimbles. 🧚🏻
This magical plant has captured my imagination since childhood.
Grieve wrote, the patterns on the foxglove blossoms are “like the spots on butterfly wings, and on the tails of peacocks….and were said to mark where the elves had placed their fingers."
I recently planted some in my garden, and I’m waiting for the blooms to start appearing!🧚🏻
Mrs Grieve wrote extensively about foxglove in her book, A Modern Herbal : "foxglove of the woods is perhaps the handsomest of our indigenous plants. It is widely distributed throughout Europe, and is common as a wildflower in Great Britain……it is a favourite flower of the honey bee.”
It is worth noting that although foxglove is admired by bees and many insects, no animals will “browse upon the plant, perhaps instinctively recognising its poisonous character.”🙀
Foxglove is indeed a plant to be admired, but modern day herbalists are not allowed to dispense it. 🙀
The powdered leaves of Digitalis purpurea have been used as medicine in Europe for hundreds of years, and it is mentioned in a list of plants from the time of Edward the 3rd. The earliest known descriptions of the medicinal use of the foxglove appear to have originated in Wales in the 13th century, where physicians used the plant to prepare external medicines. The foxglove was also used domestically in Wales, the leaves would darken engraving lines on stone floors!
The leaves of the foxglove species contain several cardiac glycosides, digoxin being the most therapeutically important. Cardiac glycosides have been used clinically for many centuries, and are a group of chemical compounds that increase contractility of the heart muscle, and are used commonly to treat heart failure.
Digoxin is a commonly prescribed cardiac glycoside, and is derived from the leaves of the plant, Digitalis lanata which belongs to the foxglove family.
Now that my little scientific description of foxglove is finished, I encourage you to seek some foxglove magic this spring! You are bound to find her growing in a nearby garden. 🌿💗Photo via @birdsbeeshotels

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