Our meeting on Wednesday 20th March 2013 welcomed Lucy Jones speaking on the topic:
"Weeds as Medicines"
Sometimes I receive some positive comments about a speaker as people are leaving the meeting, but I have rarely had so much positive feedback, including emails, and even a request to see if Lucy could do a Part II, as I've had after last night's meeting.
Lucy spoke with great enthusiasm, openness and from an apparent great depth and breadth of knowledge. I felt quite mean having to draw the discussions to an end, it seemed possible we could have still been there at midnight.
Not only did we have a swift overview of some of the Tibetan and western training she has undergone, and a glimpse of a "Roman" cream she made to take to an "Ancient Archery" session, but we also learned not to be quite so quick to condemn everything we regard as weeds to the compost bins.
When the hedge flails haven't got there first, Lucy gathers Viburnum opulus or Cramp Bark to strip off the bark. The leaves and roots of Dandelions are not to be ignored, neither should nettles. Cleavers shouldn't just be something to annoy us dog walkers (or our dogs), chickweed is to be welcomed and the yarrow, of everything else she told us about, we were warned not to forget, as its ability to stem bleeding could prove life-saving.
Thank you Lucy.
Lucy spoke with great enthusiasm, openness and from an apparent great depth and breadth of knowledge. I felt quite mean having to draw the discussions to an end, it seemed possible we could have still been there at midnight.
Not only did we have a swift overview of some of the Tibetan and western training she has undergone, and a glimpse of a "Roman" cream she made to take to an "Ancient Archery" session, but we also learned not to be quite so quick to condemn everything we regard as weeds to the compost bins.
When the hedge flails haven't got there first, Lucy gathers Viburnum opulus or Cramp Bark to strip off the bark. The leaves and roots of Dandelions are not to be ignored, neither should nettles. Cleavers shouldn't just be something to annoy us dog walkers (or our dogs), chickweed is to be welcomed and the yarrow, of everything else she told us about, we were warned not to forget, as its ability to stem bleeding could prove life-saving.
Thank you Lucy.
