EU Herbal Directive
After extolling the virtues of Swedish Bitters I find I now can't get it any more. Here in the Europe the ever wisdomful EU, is changing the landscape of herbal medicine forever. Age old remedies like Swedish bitters are gone from our shelves because the companies can't afford the 20,000 - 100,000 pound cost of registering them under the new legislation that says all herbal products have to come in line with Pharm. drugs and be lab tested for safety accordingly. Because decades, neigh centuries of public use is not enough to prove they are safe. This is quite an extraordinary move seeing as herbal medicine has not exactly proven dangerous over the years... unlike big pharm. drugs.
Anyway, on a more cheerful note
Wild Foraging
Today, apart from the appalling weather, was a day of celebration for me. Celebrating my first wild foraging of this year! Yippee! The wild garlic is up in profusion in our local woods and the nettles are just though enough to pick some tips. So I enjoyed the delights of eating food picked less than an hour before I ate it! Full of vitality and goodness. Wild garlic leaves are wonderful in an omelette - about 8 leaves chopped up and mixed into the beaten eggs with some jalepeno. Yummy. The nettle tips I sauteed with some nutmeg. Soon there will be enough nettles for making soup soon! Delicious!
Happy foraging!
xxx
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