The old herbal remedies of your grandmother held a lot of truth in them still to this day. Folk herbalism is something that belonged to the people for the people. These archaic recipes are ones that i have found to be tried and tested and most of all really tasty. Feel free to browse and copy and if you like what you see here please feel free to share.
Before modern nut and seed oils – expressed by expensive machinery, chemically fractured plant products or petroleum-based products imported into the UK – our ancestors used animals fats rendering tallow from cow and deer tallow and pig lard – to create medicines with plants. When our ancestors hunted for food they did so in an respectful way to both spirit and body. Using ceremony and ritual and prayer to appeal to the spirit of the hunt and forest to pass them a sick and weak animal. This “ritual” would also have passed on information to the hunters, through performance and …