After pruning back the honeysuckle our gingko biloba tree is shooting up and looking great.
So I got out one of my herbal medicine books to read up about what gingko biloba is good for. Actually it was also triggered by a talk on an ABC RN health program that stressed the benefit of anticoagulants for reducing lethal outcomes from atrial fibrulation (leading to strokes that kill). That rang a bell hence reading us on herbals.
Of course once you get into these books they start to grab interest. What pleased me was the number of herbal medicines of one sort or another we have in our own garden. Several dozen.
So after a lot of reading I ended up going around having tiny (a quarter of a leaf!!! – who’s brave ?foolhardy? when you don’t really know much about these things at all) of all sorts of plants. I had some gingko biloba rosemary mulberries cumquat olive leaf hawthorn flower nasturtium leaf aloe vera mint fennel a few strawberries coriander tarragon. Then went and had a lovely bath with a cup of magnesium in it – talk about Cleopatra luxury! Well haven’t exploded so far.