Of People & Plants
Community and Herbal Medicine
A Not-for-profit Enterprise reconnecting plants and people to promote healing
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January profile: Ivy
The Ivy is little used in modern herbal medicine but it has a rich and extensive folklore...
The Ivy used to be hung above all good alehouses to let all know how great the beer and ale was. This came from the idea that the ivy gave the wine better properties and gave the person less of a hangover.
Baccus is shown with the ivy plant wound round his staff and his head.
He is famously the God of wine and good times!
hedgerow Watch - Spring
The only way to really get to know the plants is to follow their progress through the seasons. As you make the aquaintance of a plant, and visit it during the course of the year, you develop a relationship with it that changes what happens when you get to harvesting it. When you no l.onger see a plant as an 'object', you cannot just 'use' it. The plant gives generously in the name of your friendship, and the healing starts to flow...
This is a season-by season guide to the medicines you will find around you now. It will show you how to identify, collect and use each plant, with links to recipes and stories.
Happy hunting!
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