 Hi, my name is Peter Jackson-Main and we're going to be doing a herb walk here today. We're here in this beautiful location in West Sussex, Woodsland Farm. There are meadows, there are woods, there are running streams, there's all sorts of wonderful habitats for plants, but particularly for medicinal plants. And the one thing about being interested in herbal medicine and medicinal plants is that a walk in nature becomes so much more than that, there's a whole new dimension here. And one of the really important things that I want to get through to you is how easy it is to find these plants. This is natural medicine for the people, so to speak. It's all over the place. Even as I'm standing here amongst almost a carpet of dandelions, normally we would walk through them and not think about them. But today we're going to think about them and we're going to look at them from that point of view. This is what nature provides us with for our healing and for our health problems. So we're just going to strike out and see what we can find. So I like to just really take in this intense yellow of these flowers. They are truly beautiful, very uplifting. And interestingly enough, one of the ways in which they can help to uplift us is by addressing liver congestion. Yellow is very much a colour that's a signature for plants that have an action on the liver. And dandelion is one of the best liver dredgers, as we call it. It's able to clear out the months of accumulation. And I like to think of it, you know, coming up in the spring after we've been eating the heavier, more carb-rich, fat-rich foods over the winter and helping us to just clear the residues of that out of our system. So it's the root we use, we use mainly for that. But the leaf is also a really, really useful medicine and a food. A dandelion leaf is a very good addition to a salad. It's very nutritious, high amounts of minerals particularly. Now the root is more known for liver detoxification. The leaf is an extremely good diuretic and you may know that the French name for the dandelion is piece en lit, which literally means wet the bed. So the idea is this is a pretty powerful diuretic, so it acts on liver and kidneys in fact. The leaf is also quite a good bitter, so if you eat it in a salad, it's quite a good thing to have a bitter green salad before you eat the main part of your meal. That sort of gets the gastric juices going and helps you to digest things better as well. Now we all know of course the dandelion clock, the way this plant seeds itself. Just pick this seed head here, there we go. This is, you know, kids love to do this, they blow and the seeds go all over the place. This is a method of propagation, a plant propagation called anemocoria, which just basically means movement through wind. And of course the wind is what comes along, it disperses the seed head, seeds go all over the place and the result is a field like this, with so many in you can't count them.