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  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].
  • [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].
  • [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].
  • [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].
  • [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].
  • [Leaflet advertising a range of herbal remedies from Seven Seas Health Care (Marfleet, Kingston-upon-Hull)].
  • [Letterhead for Salus (UK) Ltd. (8 September 1992), manufacturers of traditional herbal remedies, biological food supplements and natural dietary aids].
  • The English physician enlarged. With three hundred and sixty-nine medicines made of English herbs, not in any former impression of Culpeper's British herbal ... Crosby's improved edition ... To which is added the Family physician, and a present for the ladies, containing the best remedies ... / By Dr. Parkins.
  • Cynoglossum officinale L. Boraginaceae. Houndstongue. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: “... being roasted and laid to the fundament, helps the haemorrhoids. It is also good against burnings and scaldings.” It contains hepatocarcinogenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids and while people are known to eat the young leaves as a vegetable, this is inadvisable. The whole plant is hairy and may cause contact dermatitis. The use of herbal remedies, which contain these alkaloids, by the Bantu of southern Africa correlates with their high incidence of tumours of the liver and pancreas. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • M0007086: Manuscript illustration of a physician prescribing herbal remedy
  • Baldwin's Patent Herbal Medicines : the medicine of nature : a life invigorating remedy for nervousness, debility, consumption, insomnia, lowness of spirits.
  • Epimedium pubescens Maxim. Berberidaceae. Horny (sic) Goat Weed. Distribution: China. Marketed as an aphrodisiac, with the ability to act like sildenafil and for osteoporosis. Side effects reported include dizziness, dry mouth, vomiting and cardiac irregularity. It is not listed in Wiart (2006) or Wichtl (1994). Its reputation began, apparently, when a Chinese farmer observed increased sexual activity in his goats after they had been eating Epimedium. Given the enormous profits made by medicines such as sildenafil, it is indicative of its therapeutic value that it has not been taken up by a pharmaceutical company. Poor absorption from the gut and lack of information on toxicity may be responsible. It is not licensed for sale in the UK as a Traditional Herbal Remedy (Traditional Herbal Medicines Registration, January 2013) and has not been assessed or approved by the European Medicines Agency's Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products (HMPC). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench Asteraceae. Coneflower. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that the roots were chewed, or used as a tincture for coughs by the Choctaw. It was combined with Rhus typhina to treat venereal disease by the Delaware. Very little record of this being used by Native Americans, who used E. angustifolia very widely - Regarded as a panacea and magical herb. This and E. pallida were used to treat snakebite, spider bite, cancer, toothache, burns, sores, wounds, flu and colds. E. purpurea in modern times has been used as an ‘immunostimulant’, but is known to cause a fall in white cell count, and to be purely a placebo. Licensed for use as a Traditional Herbal Medicine, which does not require proof of efficacy, in the UK. Licensed as a Traditional Herbal Remedy in the UK (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Agrimonia eupatoria (Agrimony)
  • Bellis perennis (Common daisy)
  • Frangula alnus (Alder buckthorn)
  • Inula helenium (Elecampane)
  • Inula helenium (Elecampane)
  • Asarum canadense (Wild ginger)
  • Tibetan plant manuscript
  • Chicorium intybus (Chicory or Wild Succory)
  • Berberis aquifolium (Oregon, Mountain, Grape)
  • Iris versicolor (Purple flag)
  • Matricaria recutita (Wild chamomile)