Healing From God's Herb Garden: Benedictine Nuns Work with Pharmaceutical Experts

The Eponymous Flower ^ | 08/15/2010 | Tancred

[0beron]

Plants from the herb book of Leonhart Fuchs from the year 1545. The representation is of high quality botanically speaking.

The powerful towers of the Church of St. Michael reach into the sky. They overlook the cloister garden of the Oberzeller Franciscans. Sister Leandra Ulsamer grows lavender, sage and hyssop. The herbs grow faster in the hot summer weeks than at other times so that the Franciscans have all their hands full to bring in the rich harvest.

"Primroses and lemon balm are ripe in the early part of the year for our herb trees", reported Sister Leandra. "We have harvested enormous quantities of St. John's Wort, mullen, peppermint and sage."

The Sisters started this garden 21 years ago with a small corner. They the sisters will plant the herbs for their evening tea. Today their herb garden in Oberzell by Wurzburg with around 100 different types of herb is one of the largest in Germany. "And every year we add four, five plants onto it," said Sister Leandra. Right now she has introduced the new fine leafed olive herb that helps with indigestion

[April Lexington]

I absolutely love this kind of stuff.

[conservative cat]

Love it. When my mom was training to be a pharmacist in Germany in the 60’s, they taught botany. Germans are way more in touch with herbal remedies than Americans.

[Mortrey]

Moderators....I hope you didn’t misunderstand my previous post that you deleted.
Codex Alimentarius is in force in England at this time. It treats supplements and healing herbs as “drugs” and wants them to ONLY be “dispensed via prescriptions”-—THIS way, the government has control over healing herbs people can grow in their own gardens and the sale of supplemental vitamins.
Considering the government’s intrusion into personal gardening and the “sharing” or selling of the harvest at roadside stands, Codex Alimentarius is an important threat to this country and must be considered and fought against.
I meant no disrespect to the nuns. On the contrary.....
I applaud them.

[LadyDoc]

I love learning about herbs.

The main problem I have with them as a doc is that they aren’t “regulated”, so the same pill might be stronger or weaker in a different preparation. In Germany, they regulate the herbs closer than the US, and the herbs are widely used. I still have the “herbal” book from my old great grandfather, who was a lay herb doctor before he came to the US.