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Godshaer on Bourne Stream
Above: Godshaer Plant at Kingston Lacy
Below: Godshaer by the side of Bourne Stream in Bournemouth

Godshaer plant on Bourne Stream

Alan Hopking as depicted in a newspaper in 1986

Marshmallow

Marshmallow Althea officinale

This is the official plant that used to be used by doctors for internal gastric ulcers and external leg ulcers, and found in the British Pharmacopoea. This is not the common mallow.

Purple Loosestrife

Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria

This is a perennial herb, native to Europe, but also found in central Asia, Australia, North Africa and very common in North America. It likes wet and marshy places. It has a creeping rhizome (underground stem). It can grow to a height of 120cm (4 feet).
Not used by herbalists these days, but in the past Purple Loosestrife was valued to relieve dysentery, diarrhoea, and stomach pains; the red flower suggested to herbalists its use for bleeding, hence it was used for internal haemorrhage, excessive menstrual flow, nosebleeds ; externally it was used as a compress for eczema. Amazingly, corroborating early herbal medicine uses, recent research has shown it has an antibiotic effect on the typhus bacillus and dysentery amoeba.
Go out onto the Marsh and gaze at the sheer beauty of this magnificent plant. Find it near the New Information Centre looking across the central Marsh.

Fleabane

Fleabane Inula dysenterica

Fleabane was used for dysentery as its name documents. This plant is dried and used powdered to kill fleas on animals. It has also been burned for its smoke in farm barns as an insecticide. It flowers from late July to September. Its fruit or seed is silky and crowned by a few short, unequal hairs of a dirty-white, with an outer ring of very short bristles or scales. It has a salty taste and astringent, so animals don't eat it.

Silverweed

Silverweed Potentilla anserina

Silverweed is abundant in England and throughout Europe, and can be found in New Zealand and China. The leaves are an identification method as their underside is a silver colour. The leaves are about 2-5 inches long, toothed. The flowers are buttercup-like and bloom from early summer till tate autumn. Large, with 5 petals of a brilliant yellow and the calyx is cleft into 10 divisions. It is a favourite food of cattle, horses, goats, pigs and geese. Sheep don't eat it though.
In herbal medicine, Silverweed is used for all kinds of bleedings, including for piles and leg ulcers as a lotion. It was used for cramps in the stomach due to wind or irritable bowel. It used to be applied to get rid of pimples and freckles, also to relieve sunburn.

Water Mint

Water Mint Mentha aquatica

This plant is also known as Marsh Mint, it has a fresh characteristic smell of mint. It grows abundantly 1-2 feet high, in extensive masses in wet places, banks of rivers and marshes. It has whorls of lilac flowers.
In herbal medicine itt was used as a digestive aid and for loose bowels; for difficult menstruation; and for colds and flu and inflammatory complaints.

This is the outside entrance arch sculpture to the Church of Kilpeck, Herefordshire. 1140AD

This is the amazing image at the top of the right column of the arch of a man with foliage spewing from his mouth. A very early example of a green man (nature as the physician) - a sculpture in sandstone 1140AD Church of Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England.

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Alan N Hopking MA MNIMH MRCHM
HERBACTIVE ABC
Advanced Botanical Centre of Medicine
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As a professional herbal practitioner I am in practice in conformity with the laws of England and the 1968 Medicines Act. The UK legislative provisions for herbal medicine are to be found in the Medicines Act 1968, Section 12, paragraphs 1 & 2, and Section 56, paragraphs 1 & 2.

Section 12:1 specifies exemption for herbal medicines from licensing provided that they are supplied subsequent to private personal consultation. Section 12:2 exempts herbal medicines provided that they are produced according to standard traditional, non-industrial methods. It also specifies that no written claims may be made for the use of the remedy.

Therefore at Godshaer Herbalist no claims about any medical condition regarding the herbal medicines prescribed by Alan Hopking are made. Indeed, be it a doctor, surgeon or herbal practitioner, the successful outcome of our treatments cannot with any certainty be predicted, let alone guaranteed. Further, following UK and EU law, the information on this web site attach no medical claims and no claims concerning the medicinal herbs mentioned relating to any medical conditions listed. All the herbal prescriptions are unlicensed and made by Alan N. Hopking at the address of Godshaer Herbalist for patients of Alan N. Hopking.

I pledge that, I shall do all I can, using my knowledge of herbal medicines and natural treatment, to help you regain your deserved health.
Alan Hopking MA MNIMH MRCHM FINEH

All our herbal medicines are made from the raw herb at our dedicated clinic and dispensary at Godshaer Botanicals. We collect the fresh herbs, or import the dry herb. They are organic if at all possible. We only use whole herbs. We are against the use of standardized extracts, or the concentration of herbs by adding more of the active constituent. We recommend you do not use such products in any form (dry, in capsules or as tincture extracts). To use our herbal tonics you should follow the prescribed dose. Any side effects or problems should be reported to us.