18 Sept 2009

Nu Moon

Went to the Lee Valley to pick some rosehips for syrup mmm delicious n dug up some horseraddish to make oil - broke da blender on the horsechestnuts - oh well

13 Sept 2009

Reseaching Witching Green ointments

Had a research day today reading about the history of the flying ointments and learnt a few really interesting facts -like the word buggery dervives from Bulgarus which means Bulgaria where a group of peoples called the Bogomils who were a religious sect that inserted hallucigenic herbs rectally.

We have been sourcing lots of info for our Halloween/Samhain workshop where we shall be making our infused oil into the notorious green ointment and looking into the myth and magic that surrounds it all......

We planted up hanbane, foxglove,hemlock, datura, mandrake and aconite but unfortunately our hectic summer tour moving around weekly killed alot of them.
Gonna try and grow some of them now under lights in the shed hehe

12 Sept 2009

The witches have no plan B...

The regulation of herbs and herbalists is pushing forward under the guise of protecting the public. We believe that the best way to protect people is to provide them with the information they need and let them make informed choices.
Anyway, one positive of regulation is that it will force herbalism back into the home which is what me (da fifi) and karen have been working towards with sensory solutions.
As the witches, we are not subject to the modern day witch hunt of herbalists freedom, we are free to follow our path and stick to plan A...

The State of Herbal Medicine from where I am standing

After a night to 'sleep on it' I feel better about the whole issue with the Ach Ease Balm -I know that it's a brilliant ointment that helps people and I have no fear of it harming anyone -so I shall continue to make and give it to people for use.

The whole thing about State regulation of herbalists I feel is a load of tosh - I have a degree in Complimentry Health Sciences because I chose not to finnish the last few hrs of my clinical practice -in the basement of a hospital on a rounderbout in north london -it was disgusting there and I was getting iller and iller just being there. I have been practising as a Green Witch Herbalist since me and Fifi la belle set up Sensory Solutions as an educational organisation and we have gone out picking, growing, making remedies and playing with the plants together for the last 9yrs.
We teaching Sensory Herbalism produce newsletter to inform people about the wonder of Herbs.

Our main aim is to empower people to treat their own health issues as much as possible as far as I can see this is in direct oppersition with what the goverment seems to want -a mass of sheep who -do what they are told medicinally- often pushed by fear into taking horrible drugs with long lists of know side effects.

I don't hate doctors or modern medicine but I do feel like the pharama bussiness is corrupt and not looking after peoples best interests -my son had meningitus at 3months old and needed intravenous antibiotics -these saved his life, but during my stay in the hospital I was continuously bullied about my disision not to immunise??? Surely informed choice is freedom.

11 Sept 2009

Autumn Happenings

So we are back from the hectically brilliant summer tour of this land-well we stayed mainly west this yr -its been fun but incredibly tiring.

We decided to try and launch our Deep tissue healing balm Ache Ease- that we make from heather picked in July in Wales at Ceredwins Cauldran north in the glorious welsh mountains -so very beautiful there -it was a grey day and really blustery but the heather seemed ultra violet so clear -we picked loads and steeped it staright into the organic almond oil that we'd ordered from Rutland -( a herb farm ) - also in the balm is Horseraddish -we are waiting for the next nu moon to harvest it from the Lee Valley it grows so prolifically there nr the water -and the last herbage we get in is the dark, hairy comfrey that we normal get in spring from the canal side at Ware.

Anyways I went and research the whole issue of licensing the product to make it comply with regulations and laws -We would need to spend £40,000 on lab tests to prove it works -we know it works???

Feeling a bit wierd about it all