Herbal Medicine Support
For Women, Families, and Children
Hi! I’m Annie, a qualified herbalist here to support your journey through life’s transitions—offering herbal remedies, lifestyle guidance, and workshops on connecting with plants and creating your own remedies. Explore with me holistic care for yourself and your loved ones! Learn more about me
Welcome to Dreaming Earth Apothecary
Set in the heart of an intentional community within the beautiful and peaceful setting of the walled garden, Dreaming Earth Apothecary offers you a holistic approach to your health and wellbeing through herbal treatment as well as general lifestyle and dietary support.
✓ Supporting women through life’s transformations
✓ Holistic family health
✓ Crafted remedies with care
I love to support women through all stages of their life and especially during the changes and thresholds such as menarche, conception, pregnancy (including miscarriage and baby loss), birth, the postpartum, motherhood and menopause. The journey through womanhood comes with both joys and challenges, and I bring to my practice as a herbalist my experiences of being a woman and a mother and all the tools I have found useful along the way. I support women during these important changes as well as in supporting you with menstrual & gynaecological issues and generally to optimise your health and wellbeing. I invite you to participate in your healing journey on a psychospiritual level as well as taking the practical steps that are required.
I offer support to families wanting to support the health of babies & children naturally and holistically. I offer herbal medicine consultations and workshops too enable you gain confidence in using herbs at home as well as educate your little ones about the incredible medicine cabinet to be found on our doorstep and how to make your own remedies.
I grow (or wildcraft) and make about 50% of the herbal remedies in my apothecary and always try and get the best quality organic herbs when buying in those I can't make myself.
About the Practice
Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine can be traced back to the beginning of human history and is still the main system of medicine used by over 80% of the population around the world.
Western Herbal medicine involves using medicinal plants to support the body’s own healing mechanisms during illness, as well as through prevention by addressing early signs of imbalance before they manifest in the form of chronic disease. When prescribed by a herbalist, herbs are safe and rarely cause unwanted side-effects.
Personalised Approach to Healing
I believe health is not just the absence of disease but can be experienced as an inherent sense of vitality and wellbeing. My aim is to listen and allow space to find out what is blocking this state of health and support you in regaining it. Though my role is to offer my support and knowledge, I believe that you and your body hold the keys to your health and my sessions will reflect this through inviting you to fully participate in your healing journey. This could involve practices that support your own intuitive and embodied knowing so that you feel empowered and able to choose how this healing work unfolds. Plants have their own energetic profile, as well as their own physical or chemical properties. Through understanding their energetic qualities, seeing where they grow and observing what they look like (the doctrine of signatures), working with them through intuitive, experiential and reflective practices I create a connection with them as individual beings and allies. This helps me to match the plant to the person and so offer an individualised and holistic approach. I also work with plants in a more direct and experiential way through one-to-one or group sessions. I find that plants can offer a doorway into aspects or qualities within us. Through exploring within us the reflections they offer, integration is possible and an opportunity to expand our consciousness and our inner capacity to meet ourselves and be of service to life. I find plants can help us remember our connection to ourselves as nature as well as the beauty, mystery and teachings they offer us (and we offer ourselves through this process). I have observed how this work also supports the journey within us of de-colonisation, re-wilding of the soul and home-coming to our essential selves and to the Earth. I find this work inspiring, empowering and deeply healing. I am so grateful to the plants for all that we receive from them. I completed a degree in herbal medicine with The Scottish School of Herbal Medicine in 2006 and am a member of the Unified Register of Herbal Practictioner. For more information on my training go to About page.
Holistic Herbal Consultations I Offer
Personalised care for your wellbeing
Initial Consultation
The first consultation lasts up to 1hr 15 mins and involves taking a full case history, looking at your tongue and carrying out any relevant examinations. I then write a prescription and give general lifestyle and dietary advice as well as sending you a written treatment plan). Please allow up to 15 minutes wait while I make up the medicine (or alternatively can collect it another time).
I offer shorter consultations for specific acute or simple issues, please go to booking for more information.
Children’s Consultations
For children, I recommend an initial full consultation to build a comprehensive understanding of their medical history, constitutional type, and tendencies toward specific illnesses. This enables me to create a tailored approach, addressing root causes with daily herbs, diet, and lifestyle changes.
Once I have a medical history, you can get in touch for short calls/visits for acute issues as and when they arise as well have individual blends made up for particular issues they tend towards e.g. coughs, coldsores or cystitis.
Follow-Up Appointments
For adults, follow-up appointments are usually arranged every three weeks at first (then to 6 weeks) and last between 30 and 40 minutes.
For children, follow-up appointments are every three weeks, except during treatment of acute issues - when they may need to be more frequent. Please see the fees section for more details or contact me if your unsure which appointment to book.
Discover Plants in My Workshops
Empowering you with herbal knowledge
I am passionate about connecting people with plants. I support people in learning how to identify plants, harvest them, make herbal remedies and use local herbs. I am dedicated to growing medicinal plants and re-wilding the land with ‘weeds’, thus restoring nature’s own medicine cabinet. This supports us in creating a sustainable future which does not only rely on oil-based conventional medicines but which empowers people to take charge of their own health and connect with nature.
Available Workshops & Courses
Wildweeds
Make your own remedies
(community sessions).
First Aid for the Family
Learn to use simple herbal remedies for acute illness.
Herb Walks
Guided walks to connect with local medicinal plants.
Plant Allies for Women
Plant connection workshops using senses and intuition.
I also offer custom workshops and courses upon request. Let’s explore how plants can support and inspire your journey!