th<\/sup> August Ludmila Draxlerov\u00e1 gave a fascinating talk on Herbs and their Uses with an insight into their medicinal properties.<\/p>\nLudmila started experimenting with herbs – observing, and comparing results – from early childhood in her native Slovakia.\u00a0 We heard how she saved her school friend the pain of having warts burnt off by treating them with Greater Celandine.\u00a0\u00a0 And how between one spring and winter she successfully treated her mother\u2019s gall stones with Agrimony.\u00a0 And then as a mother herself, how she made her own St. John\u2019s Wort tincture and oil to relieve her children\u2019s itchy chicken pox.<\/p>\n
Ludmila answered all the questions we threw at her \u2013 from what books to read, which herbs to use for our own ailments to the impact of pharmaceutical companies on generations of knowledge being lost.<\/p>\n
She showed us a selection of her own tinctures and mixtures.\u00a0 And we finished with a stroll round the garden looking at, touching and smelling many of the wonderful herbs she\u2019d talked about.<\/p>\n
By Rebecca Wallace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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