Sussex I love you but walking the gower coast path, in South Wales at seven this morning makes me wonder why I ever left Wales. The beaches the rocks and the wildness of the scenery. And one of my favourite herbs growing in a late autumn flush along the coast path. Stachys betonica or Wood betony. Known in Greek / roman medicine as a panacea for afflictions of the head. It's a nervous system herb used for headaches particularly caused by anxiety or tense shoulders and neck. Also great for dream disturbed sleep and nightmares and for deeper sleep generally. I put it in my relaxation tea blend.

NOV 11 An Overview of Cannabinoid Therapy - with practical applications Event for 'Western Herbal Medicine practitioners. I'll be teaching this one day course to herbalists at Christine Herbert's in Norfolk. Any herbalists or other medical professionals can come. If you want to learn all about cbd, thc and its use in medicine, then this will be a really useful day seminar.

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herbal Alchemy aka Haskel Adamson is looking for 4 acres of land to buy in Sussex in order to start a life long ambition of creating a Herb Farm. What I'm looking for is some mixed woodland attached to a south facing pasture field, with access from a road or public track. Running water would be ideal, but ponds and a well could suffice. I would like to start growing hemp on the land with a government license and creating a 50 year medicinal herbal garden project. The 50 year garden was inspired by a friend Lambert Coles who had the most beautiful garden I've ever worked on at New Timber old rectory. As a ninety year old He could be found at the top of a 15 foot ladder pruning roses or waist deep in his pond. The most gracious man I ever met. I don't need a Georgian rectory but I do want a garden I can base my practise and teaching and business from. A herbalist without a permanent garden is like a fish out of water. So this is my intent, my dream and now at 44 it's time to make it happen. Any ideas and advice would be most welcome. Please pm me or call if you can help in any way at all. Thank you

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Foraging wild foods and Herbal medicine identification Sat 8th & Sunday 9th October 2016 1 or 2 day course exploring the local herbs of Hemel Hempstead water meadows with Haskel Adamson -Medical Herbalist Saturday 10am - 5pm Foraging wild foods and Herbal medicine identification and teaching session. We will journey forth through the fields and towpaths learning the culinary uses of wild foods and medicinal herbs. We will learn simple botany which enables safe plant identification. We’ll collect edible and medical plants from private land along the way returning to the Fishery Wharf cafe to cook a meal using some of the plants gathered. As a group we will prepare a lunch using some of the plants and herbs foraged that morning with modern insights into nutrition. Tom the Café chef will assist in the preparation of the dishes which he will cook in the cafe’s wood fired pizza oven. This will be an informal chance to discuss nutrition and how herbs can be incorporated into food. In the afternoon will we have another opportunity to seek out Herbal medicines in the local environment and go deeper into their uses and how we can make simple herbal preparations from them. There will be time to connect with plants on an energetic level as well as learning their pharmacological properties and actions on the body. The teaching will be aimed at a general level so that everyone can learn to use local plants. Cost per person for one day one including drinks and three course lunch £75.00 Day two Medicinal and cosmetic cream and medicinal balm making workshop. Using herbal teas, oils, tinctures and essential oils in order to make high quality creams. Beginning with making a simple ointment that can be used on the body and face, using nutritionally rich oils. Advancing in the afternoon to making a light yet rich in cream that will nourish and feed the skin. All participants will be involved in the design and manufacture of the creams and balms, and each participant will get to take two/three jars home with them at the end of the day, with their own names on the label. Many plants will go into the creams and there will be plenty of to learn about the herbs used, why they are useful for topical use and how to use them in different formats. The course is designed for the novice cream maker or those more experienced cream makers who wish to incorporate more medicinal plants into their home made products. Cost per person for one day one including drinks and three course lunch £100.00 Haskel Adamson is a Medical Herbalist practicing in Lewes, East Sussex. He trained at: -Middlesex University in Traditional Chinese Medicine in a course run in conjunction with Beijing University -Westminster University in Western Herbal Medicine BSc. Training with the renowned English herbalist Christopher Hedley, and completing a practitioner degree. In the last ten years of practise Haskel has treated a variety of health conditions from the common cold to serious neurological conditions. He now specialises in supporting people with cancer and working in Palliative Herbal care, as well as general practise. Haskels teaching style is informal, fun and inclusive, valuing input from the group. Haskel has run hundreds of herb walks and taught Herbal medicine making workshops, given lectures around the country and to herbalist conferences. Haskel created a range of Herbal creams, ointments and tincture blends to sell to the public and has done consultancy work in the USA helping companies develop new products. As a founder member of the United Patients Alliance (the largest UK medical Cannabis decriminalisation lobby group) Haskel was invited by the minister in charge of drug policy to take part in a presentation to the Home Office. He is about to begin an MSc in clinical research. Costs Day one including lunch £75 Day two including lunch and creams to take home £100 Both days booked together £150 Concessions are available on request to Haskel Haskeladamson@gmail.com Payment is by paypal direct to Fisherywharfcafe@gmail.com or via the paypal ticket link on the www.fisherywharfcafe.co.uk website, places are limited and this event will sell out so booking is essential. Haskel Adamson Workshop PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!

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If anyone would like to buy some love potion this weekend then I'll be around in Brighton and Lewes this weekend. I'm going to Glastonbury on Tuesday morning and planning on taking some there too to spread the love. Pm me if you'd like a bottle. Prices below. Love potion 100 ml £10 200 ml £18 500 ml £40 1 litre £75 Plus postage £4 or Pick up from Lewes or Brighton. Love potion is a tonic blend of uplifting adaptogenic and aphrodisiac herbs made of herbal tinctures. It's very concentrated. Tinctures are herbs macerated in organic alcohol. It can be taken in small doses (5 ml 1-3 times a day) as an energy tonic or taken in higher doses 25-50 ml on a night out or a night in. Xxx Ingredients Rose damascena fluid extract 20% Damiana Melissa officinalis Muirama puama Tribulus terrestis Cola nut Shatavari Vanilla Ashwaganda Guarana 5% Herbs are sourced from English herbalists suppliers. Organic when available. The blend contains herbs from the UK -Rose and Melissa India -Ashwaganda and Shatavari South America - Damiana, Vanilla, Guarana, Muirama puama, Africa - Kola nut, Tribulus

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As a qualified medical herbalist / Zu in house wizard, I've been providing the Love Potion to Zu gatherings for the last two years. It's a stimulating blend of ten herbal aphrodisiac and feel good herbs, designed to arouse a passion for life and the company of others. This is a powerful combination of tonic / adaptogenic herbs. They are beneficial taken daily (5-15ml) in small doses if a tonic is needed. In larger doses (25-50 ml) they help create feelings of heart opening and empathetic connection to others. It's intended to be both energising and relaxing. Contains: Rose damascena, Damiana, Tribulus, Muirama Puama, Ashwaganda, Shatavari, Kola nut, Guarana, Melissa and Vanilla Available in four sizes: 100ml £10 200ml £18 500ml £40 1000ml £75 Message me if you would like a bottle. It can be posted or collected in Brighton and Lewes. I also make two versions for men and women too, designed to work more specifically with male and female hormone systems. "Master Blaster" and "Tickle my Fancy". The brilliant Mike Puxley is helping me build a website to sell love potion. So I'd love to have some testimonials from all the zubees who have enjoyed Love Potion at the parties of the last two years. This would help so much and anyone who writes one will be entered into a draw to win a half litre bottle of Love Potion.