Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

“You should take some …” is a bit of advice I’m slightly sick of hearing. No, I know that people are trying to help but at the moment I’m on so much medication that morning pill-taking counts as breakfast.

Belladonna

I have become slightly appalled at the things that are available as over-the-counter remedies advertised as “totally natural”. This is taken to mean herb-based and everyone assumes inoffensive. Sorry but although I am not an expert I dabble in herbs and have had to learn a fair bit about them. Were I to pick a random fungus off the ground and offer it to you, you’d want to know what it was and be sure it was safe – right?

Hypericum

Herbs = natural = safe isn’t a good mantra. Belladonna and monkshood are herbs. They are also deadly poison. In my own case I’m already taking a Valerian-based medication…