DEDICATION
This little book is dedicated to my Paternal Grandmother who we grandkids affectionately called ‘Little Nana’ due to her comparative small size when compared to my Maternal Grandmother who wasn’t very tall, but was rather round.
Little Nana grew up using herbs in rural Scotland and I remember her telling me that as a child her mother would send her into the woods to collect various herbs and plants to be used for different purposes - both culinary and medicinally.
I also remember Little Nana showing me a small, tatty, leather bound copy of Culpeppers Herbal that she referenced fairly regularly. She told me how she drank Sage tea to benefit her brain and also how she took garlic in hot milk from time to time. She confessed that on more than one occasion she had used too much of the garlic and when she did that, the skin on the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet peeled!
Little Nana lived until she was 3 months away from her 100th birthday and I’m certain that she’d have lived longer if she’d stuck with the herbs and stayed away from the doctors and their drugs. Sadly she succumbed to mainstream medicine in her old age.
As you’ll read in this little book, my interest in herbs and then natural health originated from these conversations and some timely advice that my Little Nana gave me and for that I am very grateful.