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Herbalists Without Borders Bristol Providing free herbal healthcare in Bristol to people fleeing conflict & persecution. Non-affiliated

Providing free herbal healthcare to people fleeing conflict, persecution, and intolerable living conditions.

Here is the October page of our medicinal mushroom calendar. Can’t believe it’s already a year since we made this!This p...
04/10/2026

Here is the October page of our medicinal mushroom calendar. Can’t believe it’s already a year since we made this!

This page on maitake (also known as hen of the woods) was written by Rhizome Herbal with a recipe by Matter Wholefoods and illustrated by Erika Faggiani

This is a delicious culinary mushroom and also used as an antiviral. Maitake in Japanese means ‘dancing mushroom’, apparently for the joy of finding one!

Ceps for September! Such a stunning image by Laura and delicious recipe by Go Foraging Anyone found any this year? ...
11/09/2026

Ceps for September!
Such a stunning image by Laura and delicious recipe by Go Foraging
Anyone found any this year?

Lovely batch of healing balm in our medicine making this week. It’s made of a base of calendula infused oil with added l...
11/09/2026

Lovely batch of healing balm in our medicine making this week. It’s made of a base of calendula infused oil with added lavender essential oil, great for all sorts of skin complaints from allergies and eczema to cuts and grazes.

Also this gorgeous array of herbs that go into our digestive tea mix, generally helping good digestion and reducing bloating and spasms.

Thanks to all the medicine makers! Our next public session will be on October 21st.

Harvesting wood betony at our herb garden! This is such a special plant and it’s amazing to be able to grow some of our ...
09/07/2026

Harvesting wood betony at our herb garden! This is such a special plant and it’s amazing to be able to grow some of our own to use in our nervine mixes. Wood betony is traditionally used for head related ailments including headaches and migraines. It is also grounding and calming and useful for anxiety, fear, nightmares and insomnia. You can sometimes be lucky enough to see it growing in the wild in hedgebanks, meadows or cliff tops.

Once dried, we’ll use these beautiful flowering tops in our relax tea mix or relax tonic made with glycerine and a range of other nervine herbs.

Also this gorgeous line drawing of wood betony by in our Herbal Year Book, available in our online shop.

Wow half the year through already! …and another lovely page to turn of our 2026 calendar, time for the puffballs. Did yo...
02/07/2026

Wow half the year through already! …and another lovely page to turn of our 2026 calendar, time for the puffballs.

Did you know that you can use dried and powdered puffballs topically on infected wounds? Traditionally used by the North American Cherokee nation and also used in field hospitals during the 1st World War. A great addition to your herbal first aid kit!

Thanks to for the lovely illustration, puffball wisdom and page written by Rhizome Herbal 💛

What an abundance of these absolute beauties at the moment! The lime trees are dripping with all this blossom, delicatel...
17/06/2026

What an abundance of these absolute beauties at the moment! The lime trees are dripping with all this blossom, delicately scented, buzzing full of bees and so beautiful!

Limeflowers (from a variety of Tilia species) make an amazing relaxing medicine for anxiety, depression, insomnia, stress and high blood pressure. The fresh infusion has a lovely rosiness to it and left to steep brings out some of the mucilage in the plant making it almost syrupy.

We use limeflowers in quite a few of our relaxing medicine mixes and so we’re on a mission at this time of year to pick as much of it as possible to add to our dried herb stocks. It is expensive to buy in and so great when we can use it more locally. For anyone living locally who’s confident in plant id and would like to help with some foraging and drying please get in touch!!

Here’s some gorgeous abundance from our monthly volunteer session yesterday in our herb garden yesterday, everything is ...
08/06/2026

Here’s some gorgeous abundance from our monthly volunteer session yesterday in our herb garden yesterday, everything is looking so luscious!

We had a good skullcap harvest that we will add in to our nervine mixes - we have an anti-anxiety ‘relax’ tea and similar glycerite mix plus a sleep tea mix. Insomnia, stress and anxiety are what many people come to us to ask for help with and it’s good to have a selection of things we can offer. 💚

Ah it’s June and time for another new page from our medicinal mushroom calendar. The variety of each month’s page is so ...
02/06/2026

Ah it’s June and time for another new page from our medicinal mushroom calendar. The variety of each month’s page is so delightful to enjoy on a daily basis!

This month’s page features the Jelly Ear fungus, with a long tradition of use as an infusion for sore throats and eye irritations, with high iron levels and anti-viral properties. They are also used in traditional Chinese medicine and known for promoting long life and good health. ♥️

Has anyone had a go yet at making this incredible recipe by for Miso Caramel Jelly Ear Mushroom Chocolates?

The Jelly-Ear-growing-on-Elder-tree-with-visiting-blue-tit illustration was done by Peter McGain, the father of one of our core team (proud daughter moment!). Peter has also helped us with some of these pictograms for our range of medicines that help to easily communicate their uses.

A few of us have been at this morning for our regular monthly visit with our medicine cart, lots of lovely chats as usual, lots of different medicines shared and we always get such a warm welcome from the team there, it’s such a lovely project to be connected to 💚

PS you can still snap up a super cheap £5 calendar through our web page xx

A few photos from the gorgeousness of our herb garden this month 💚We use rose petals in our relax tea mix (although we s...
31/05/2026

A few photos from the gorgeousness of our herb garden this month 💚

We use rose petals in our relax tea mix (although we sadly don’t grow enough to use our own). They’re such a wonderful addition to any tea, with their uplifting and nervine relaxant qualities and are used specifically for grief and loss. The abundance of roses in bloom everywhere at the moment is so incredible!

Here is some good fact checking for some of the misleading misinformation that flies around about migration in this coun...
18/05/2026

Here is some good fact checking for some of the misleading misinformation that flies around about migration in this country...

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