On tonights show Rosie is going to discuss three amazing herbs that everyone should be aware of and growing in their gardens.  If you take a turn around your local meadow in the height of summer you will surely see the creamy coloured fluffy flower topped plant called meadowsweet. Inhale deeply as you dance past and you will be rewarded with the scent of honey on the breeze. The health benefits and therapeutic uses of meadowsweet have earned it a place in the history of medical science. Meadowsweet was the main constituent in the synthesis of the analgesic aspirin. This also accounts for meadowsweet tea being taken as a remedy for headaches.

Heal All herb has many different names!  All-Heal, Heal-All, Self-Heal and Woundwort are among the common names for the low-growing perennial herb Prunella vulgaris.  This low-growing, creeping herb grows in most temperate areas around the world and has been used in medicinal and culinary applications for millennia. The benefits of All-Heal and Prunella vulgaris are legendary, and modern nutritional and medicinal studies indicate that the legends may be scientifically supported.

Plantain is a practical herb that everyone should know about… I consider it one of the best plants for people to learn about when first learning to collect and use wild plants.  There are just so many uses for this plant, and while gentle, often its effects are decided and dramatic.  Paramount among its myriad of uses is its action as a "drawing agent".  Applied externally as a poultice, crushed or chewed plantain leaves can draw out splinters, stingers, insect & snake venom, and pretty much anything else that might get into the skin.