Look After Your Children with Herbs (online course) Key Child-Friendly Herbs & Ingredients

These key herbs can be used as dried herbs (for teas) and in herbal tincture form.

Please check the relevant lessons for dosage, strength and application guidelines.

• Common name, Latin name
  • Calendula/marigold Calendula officinalis
  • Chamomile Chamomilla recutita/Matricaria recutita
  • Cleavers Galium aparine
  • Elder berry Sambucus nigra fruct.
  • Elder flower Sambucus nigra flos.
  • Lemon balm Melissa officinalis
  • Lime flower Tilia europa
  • Marshmallow Althea officinalis
  • Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria
  • Nettle Urtica dioica
  • Oatstraw Avena sativa 

• Passion flower Passiflora incarnata
  • Plantain Plantago lancelota or Plantago majalis
  • Red Clover Trifolium pratense
  • Rose Rosa spp. (so many varieties!)
  • Thyme Thymus vulgaris

• Key ingredients for topical treatments: porridge oats, chickweed, plantain, daisy, onion.