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‘Chance favours the prepared mind.’ Louis Pasteur If you have a phobia of chemical structures, please bear with me. Chemical structures and their modification are often no more complex than building with Lego blocks in the hands of the initiated. I shall illustrate by recounting how one morning, scientists with no chemophobia, having a sandwich…

In a post in May 2023, we wrote about Psychedelics as the New Frontier in Psychiatric Drug Therapy giving some historical background. Please read as background to this post if possible. A major new trial published on 5 September 2023 provides the best evidence to date that psilocybin might become an approved prescribable medication for…

On the night of 31st August 2023, millions of eyes worldwide were peeled towards the sky to marvel at the moon, as man has no doubt done since they first became beings able to ask themselves, I wonder why? Many tried to capture its beauty on camera as it swirled closest to us as a…

#MedicineTrees #MedicinalHerbs #MedicinalPlants #HerbalMedicine #PlantMedicine #TakingLeadFromNature #Rudbeckia #Echinaceae #NativeAmercian #RudbeckiaMia #RudbeckiaMaya #CarlLinnaeus #Celsus #OlofRudbeck #UpsallaUniversity #PlantEtymology #BlackEyedSusans #ConeFlower #Aster I often buy plants claimed to have medicinal value for my garden, just for interest. To study their leaves and how they grow. This summer, I treated myself to some Rudbeckia (Asteraceae family) not for this…

#Nutraceuticals #Evidence-BasedHerbals #Evidence-BasedMedicine #SafetyOfHerbals #MedicineTrees #MedicinalHerbs #MedicinalPlants #HerbalMedicine #PlantMedicine #TakingLeadFromNature #Herbals #MedicinalPlantsAsFood #FromFoodToMedicine #Superfoods #ClassificationOfHerbalMedicines #TCM #SnakeOil #DrugRegulation #FDA #EMA #MedicineOfSuchRareExcellence #Panacea #OTC #Aromatherapy #Charlatan #Nutraceuticals #SpicesAsMedicine #Aromatherapy The medicines we post on may be obtained directly from plants or indirectly through modifications of natural plant molecules. By plants, we include fungi and microbes that…

#MedicineTrees #MedicinalHerbs #MedicinalPlants #HerbalMedicine #PlantMedicine #TakingLeadFromNature #Herbals #Saponins #SaponariaOfficinalis #Soapwort #VaccineAdjuvants #FrothingAgentsforBeers #FizzOfSoftDrinks #Fragrance #SoulTherapy #ShroudOfTurin #QuillajaSaponaria #Quillaia #Glycosides #OldFashionedSoaps#RomanSoap #COVID-19Vaccine #Saponaire A happy childhood is the foundation for a happy adulthood. Or, as Aristotle claimed, ‘Give me a child until he is seven and I shall show you the man’. I was perhaps aged…

#MedicineTrees #MedicinalHerbs #MedicinalPlants #HerbalMedicine #PlantMedicine #TakingLeadFromNature #Herbals #MedicinalPlantsAsFood #Artemisia #Artemisinin #Tarragon #Absinthe #Karela #MetatoneStrychnine #GinAndTonicHistory #BitteringAgents #Momordica #BitterMelon #BitterGourd #FromFoodToMedicine #Superfoods #Aperitifs #Aperitivo #Digestifs #HakkaChinese Most plants consumed as medicines must have started their human odyssey as food. Their specific health benefits were recognised usually much later. Examples abound – citrus fruits and most green…

#Valerian #RedValerian #Valeriana #Valériane #纈草 #Centranthe #NonMedicinalValerian #MedicinalValerian #Centranthus #Lonicera #Honeysuckle #Caprifoliaceae#NaturesMedicines #MedicinalPlants #Sorrento #Amalfi #SouthwellMinster #SoulMedicine #SleepRemedy #LowSpiritednessRemedy #TopicalEnhancers #TopicalSteroids #MedicineTrees #TCM @MedicineTrees2023 The root of the valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is one of the most widely purchased herbal remedies in many countries, including Britain, the US and much of Europe, typically for sleep disorders,…

#CalkeAbbey #Augustinians #HenryVIILandGrab #NationalTrust #InheritanceTax #Alchemilla #Lady’sMantle ##Menorrhagia #MenstrualProblems #Alchemist #RosaceaeAlchemy #MedicineTrees #PlantMedicine #MedicinalPlants #TakingLeadFromNature #Herbals  #HerbalMedicine #FolkloreMedicine #18thCenturyMedicine #BreastReduction #SheriffOfNottingham #RobinHood Calke Abbey is a grand historic country mansion under the care of the British National Trust in Derbyshire in England. Although it was never an Abbey, it was built on the site of…

#Psychedelics #FDA #LSD #Psilocybin #Psilocin #Mescaline #MedicineTrees #MedicinalHerbs #MedicinalPlants #HerbalMedicine #PlantMedicine #TakingLeadFromNature #Herbals #HernanCortes #Teochichimecas #Sahagun #Aztecs #NewSpain #PsychedelicDrugLicensing #AldousHuxley #DrugsFromNature #MagicMushrooms #MentalIllnessPlantMedicines #LouisLewin #AlbertHofmann #Sandoz #PlantDrugLicensing #Archaeobotany #PsychedelicTherapy #Descartes #TGA #MHRA #Phantastica #PsychiatricDrugTherapy ‘Cogito, ergo sum’, said Descartes. ‘Je pense, donc je suis. I think, therefore I am’. The thinking, perceiving mind is what…