This herb is used in cooking and herbal medicine, it contains volatile oils, flavonoids and caffeic acid derivatives + has an antimicrobal action and has a long history in folk medicine.

 Mistletoe. Contains, lectins, polypeptides,sugar alc,flavonoids, phenyl alyl alc,lignans and triterpenes. When used wisely, this herb is very useful.

Borage . Bees love this plant. The seed oil contains gamma-linolenic acid(17-20%)and has an astringent action + it also contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, silicic acid and tannins. A wonderful oil to use in cream making. UPDATE  There are now companies working with specific modifed Borago seed oil, for the treatment  of Multiple sclerosis. Tests and Trials are ongoing, the results so far are interesting….

Lung wort. The plant got its name from the leaves looking like lungs. the actives are , triterpene acid esters, sterols and volatile oil . So the plant looks the way it works and that is clever.

Elecampane Root. This herb has an antibiotic/antifungal action, but needs to used properly by a Qualified person . The plant contains volatile oils and polysaccharides. The herb has been used for a very long time.

Vipers Bugloss. The seed oils is wonderful and very useful. The stems are speckled like a viper and was considered a repellent to “poyson and the sting of scorpions”

American Cranebill . the actives are tannic  and gallic acid with a styptic actIon .  North American plant firstly used by the Indians.

contains flavonoids, biflavonoides, proanthocyanidins,trilactonic diterpenes, trilactonic sesquiterpene. This  herb has been used for at least 4000 years, and has been of great use to man.

Flower of the pomegranite,  the fruit peel and  bark have been used for avery long time.  the actives are, tannins and piperidine alkaloids. Used in the past to treat tape worm. The fruit juice is also used but tastes better. Only the fruit is now allowed to be used, the bark is banned in modern use.

Pasque flower, contains protoanemonine-forming agents and triterpene saponins. the bees adore this plant when its in flower.

Golden Rod  . The  herb contains,volatile oil,water soluble acidic polysaccharides, diterpenes, carotinoids, phenol glucosides and caffeic acid, some of these components  are really useful in herbal medicine.

Californian poppy- variant colour form has a very colourful flowers and very interesting actives, isoquinoline alkaloids and cyanogenic  glycosides, considered to bring about the condition of sleep and calmness.

Herb Robert  This herb goes back to the use by Monks of the 10th Century and far beyond . The herbs grow everywhere but most people do not know how good it it is , it has antiviral and antimicrobial + has hypotensive  actions and is a pleasure to behold.

normal form, same as the other form, but it brightens the day while it flowers.

Contain volatile oil, hydoxycoumarins  and caffeic acid derivatives. Even being near the plant make you feel calm on a hot sunny afternoon.

All  Rose hips and petals  have so many uses+ the smell -wow!. The actives range from volatile oil, tannins  to fruit acids, sugars, flavonoids,  tocopferol and  carotinoids + they are beautiful  to look at  even in the winter (hips).

St Johns wort .I think this herb has been used since the beginning of time and has so many use externally and internally. Contains , anthracene derivatives,flavonoids,xanthones,  acylphloroglucinols, volatile oil, oligomeric procyanidines, catechin tannins and caffeic acid.

Mandrake .Main active-Tropane  alkaloid(0.4%) hyoscyamine. Mandragora is one of the oldest  of medicinal plants and appears a lot in folk medicine. But is now only used in Homeopathy.       It can cause  hallucinations or delirium + the lethal dose can be 100mg for adults and less for children.