Rhizome Community Herbal Clinic

Rhizome Community Herbal Clinic A community Herbal Clinic Bristol, set up to provide affordable herbal appointments & courses Herbs are gentle, safe and effective with very few side-effects.

Herbal Medicine uses plants that have medicinal value to help treat a wide range of health problems. Its use has been recorded over thousands of years and still has relevance in today's world. We use whole plants believing that is more beneficial than isolated plant constituents. They can be used to treat specific health conditions, prevent the recurrence of health problems or to promote good heal

th when taken on a regular basis. The approach of a herbalist is always to try and treat the underlying root cause of the illness, alongside the symptoms. Medical herbalists combine traditional knowledge of plants with more recent scientific research to create an individually tailored treatment plan. Nutritional and lifestyle advice is also included if necessary. As herbalists we are trained to give herbs in conjunction with orthodox medicine and be aware of any possible contra-indications. Our role is not in conflict with your GP. Most conditions treated by a GP can also be supported by herbs. Commonly seen conditions in herbal practice:
Skin conditions: eczema, psoriasis, acne, fungal infections
Digestive conditions: IBS, constipation, diarrhoea, indigestion, peptic ulcers, colitis, high cholesterol
Circulatory conditions: High blood pressure, varicose veins and ulcers
Respiratory conditions: colds, asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, hay fever
Muscolskeltal disorders: arthrtis, bursitis, gout, tendonitis
Endocrine disorders: Type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome
Women’s health: period pains, irregular menstruation, PMS, fibroids, fertility, menopausal symptoms
Men's health: BPH, urinary conditions, stress and infertility
Children's health: skin disorders, allergies, tonsillitis
Emotional Health: Anxiety, stress, insomnia and depression
Supportive treatment for chronic illnesses

The above conditions give you an idea of what herbal treatments can support. However, it is also important to emphasise that herbalists, contrary to conventional biomedicine, treat the person and not the disease. We always strive to see the person as a whole and provide healthcare based on a holistic model.

The clinic garden is looking gorgeous in Bristol 💚 Considering we moved in 5 years ago and it was gravel with a lone Hol...
19/06/2026

The clinic garden is looking gorgeous in Bristol 💚 Considering we moved in 5 years ago and it was gravel with a lone Holly tree and scattered chives. We try to grow as many herbs as we can in the garden so people are surrounded by the medicinal plants as they come for their appointments.

But what do people do about growing catnip?? Also known as catmint. This is the third catnip plant in the garden and the cats just sit on them all the time. We've tried putting bamboo poles around the plants so they won't but the cats still manage to. Any tips are welcome. Thanks!!!

Come and learn herbal medicine with us. Over the course of 5 summer evenings you will learn to identify useful herbs, un...
15/06/2026

Come and learn herbal medicine with us. Over the course of 5 summer evenings you will learn to identify useful herbs, understand their medicinal uses and make medicines from them.

This is one of our favourite courses, which we have been teaching for over a decade, as we are outside in 5 different bountiful community gardens around Bristol. Seeing and harvesting the fresh herbs is a wonderful way to start your herbal learning. You will make and go home with a tincture, an infused oil, an ointment and a herbal vinegar, alongside making an aromatic water on site. You will finish the course with skills to develop your own herbal medicine chest!

You will learn botany, a herbal approach to digestion, immunity and supporting the nervous system and medicine making skills.

The course will be for 5 Wednesday evenings starting June 24th 2026.

It is a foundation course accessible for beginners. It is different material from any other course we teach and complements all our other courses if you have studied with us before.

Cost
There are three tiers to our sliding scale and guidelines to what that means.These are very rough guidelines so please pay the tier that you feel comfortable with. No judgement, just get in touch if you have queries. We are striving to keep things affordable whilst making our living
Top tier £270
So this is the tier that is appropriate if any of these apply to you: You have a full time reasonably paid job, home/land owner, you are able to afford holidays and other luxuries
Middle tier £250
So this is the tier that is appropriate if any of these apply to you: low waged or part-time waged or struggling to afford holidays/luxuries.
Low tier £229
This is the tier for those who are unwaged

More reviews in the comments 💚

To book: https://www.rhizomeclinic.org.uk/herbal-summer-school.html


Another wonderful wild medicine weekend focusing on wild and cultivated aromatic medicinal plants. We made a potent arom...
08/06/2026

Another wonderful wild medicine weekend focusing on wild and cultivated aromatic medicinal plants. We made a potent aromatic water in our copper still then used this in an aromatic tincture as the water part mixing with alcohol.

We made an ointment and an aromatic anti inflammatory cream which is a great way of blending many aromatic medicines. We blended an aromatic tea, infused oil, aromatic water and essential oils into a cream.

If you want to learn about herbal medicine with us we are starting our Outdoor Herb School on the 24th June. This is a five week evening class course based in different community gardens around Bristol. In the course you will harvest herbs, make medicines, learn botany and more about digestive, immune and nervous system support herbs.

Link to the website and booking in our bio.





So glad we harvested a lot of Elder flowers over the weekend after so much rain this week. Fortunately Elder has a long ...
04/06/2026

So glad we harvested a lot of Elder flowers over the weekend after so much rain this week. Fortunately Elder has a long ish growing season so once the sun you can harvest.

I have been picking Elder with my son for 9 years and it's always the herb that he gets the most involved in making the medicine from. We have made cordial, which is really a simple syrup recipe, champagne and dried lots as it's part of an immune tea that we drink regularly in the winter. Great for fevers but we will drink it whenever we feel like we are coming down with something. Other herbs in the tea include yarrow, lime flower, mint and thyme.

In the clinic we use elderflower for allergies and supporting the immune system.

We had a great couple of days at teaching on this year's course. We have been teaching about herbal medicine on this ...
02/06/2026

We had a great couple of days at teaching on this year's course. We have been teaching about herbal medicine on this wonderful course for many years now and feel privileged to be one of it's many tutors.

We foraged and harvested making herbal vinegars, tinctures and balms.

Amazing to be back teaching our year of Wild Medicine. We started teaching this course in 2015 and it continues to be a ...
07/05/2026

Amazing to be back teaching our year of Wild Medicine. We started teaching this course in 2015 and it continues to be a pleasure and privilege to do so. We start with harvesting bark, sap, resin and needles from.medcinal trees in March. In April we look at all the common spring herbs as well as some very special spring flowers.

If you would like to learn with us our next course is a 5 week evening course set in 5 different community gardens in Bristol which is called our Herbal Summer School. For more details visit our website we only have a few places left: https://www.rhizomeclinic.org.uk/herbal-summer-school.html

Otherwise you can join us on our herb walk next week as part of Bristol's Walking Festival:
Herb Walks, Talks and Workshops - Rhizome Community Herbal Clinic https://share.google/pRbr0bj57d5MlQgsA

Link in bio to our website

Being a herbalist is the best job in the world, well more like the best vocation. We are at the Haven, a community garde...
18/04/2026

Being a herbalist is the best job in the world, well more like the best vocation. We are at the Haven, a community garden in Easton today for the second weekend of our wild medicine course. It's a beautiful spring day with life and birdsong bursting out everywhere.

We had a great time in early March with Tasha from learning about inoculating logs with medicinal mushrooms. She showed...
21/03/2026

We had a great time in early March with Tasha from learning about inoculating logs with medicinal mushrooms. She showed us around her mushroom farm where she grows sh*take, lion's mane and turkey tail, which is on 42 acres, a beautiful site near Frome.

We drilled holes in the logs, inoculated them with sh*take spores then sealed the holes with beeswax. You need to be in it for the long game as you have to wait one and a half years for them to fruit the mushroom bodies!!! The logs need to be forced into fruiting by a process of shocking which simulates a big environmental change which stimulates the mycelia in the log to start fruiting. So after about 18 months the logs are soaked for 24 hours then banged into the ground. And fingers crossed you will get a big crop of sh*take.

This log can then fruit for several years. Very exciting🤎

21/03/2026

We had a great time in early March with Tasha from learning about inoculating logs with medicinal mushrooms. She showed us around her mushroom farm where she grows sh*take, lion's mane and turkey tail, which is on 42 acres, a beautiful site near Frome.

We drilled holes in the logs, inoculated them with sh*take spores then sealed the holes with beeswax. You need to be in it for the long game as you have to wait one and a half years for them to fruit the mushroom bodies!!! The logs need to be forced into fruiting by a process of shocking which simulates a big environmental change which stimulates the mycelia in the log to start fruiting. So after about 18 months the logs are soaked for 24 hours then banged into the ground. And fingers crossed you will get a big crop of sh*take.

This log can then fruit for several years. Very exciting🤎

Known by many names Cleavers, sticky w***y, goose grass or its botanical name Galium aparine. It's covered in tiny hairs...
17/03/2026

Known by many names Cleavers, sticky w***y, goose grass or its botanical name Galium aparine. It's covered in tiny hairs which makes it stick to you but also to other plants helping it to creep up to the sunlight.

A favourite for recovering after a virus or a sluggish winter. Pick a handful and infuse it for 30 mins in warm or cold water (see which you prefer). Cleavers has an affinity for the lymph glands so specific for chronic tonsillitis or swollen glands. The next month is a perfect time to harvest and drink it daily.

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