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Here at Wild Dispensary not only do we live in, but we celebrate the landscape and the amazing plants that grow in our region.  We also highlight and hero them - in particular Central Otago Thyme.  Central Otago Thyme has long been utilised for its powerful medicinal qualities.  There is a reason why this amazing plant is so powerful and it is in large part due to the climate that it grows in. Anyone that has visited Central Otago will know it gets the hottest summers and the coldest winters and this massive variety of temperature and climate makes the...

Throat spray highlight We are slightly biased but we LOVE our throat spray. It is an essential in our bags (especially for travel) and in our medicine cupboards.  We use it for a variety of reasons: If you have a tickly sore throat. It helps to numb and soothe the sore area (we use clove specifically for this). If you have been around people who are sick it can help boost your first line of defence. Often ‘bugs’ etc enter into our body via our respiratory system (first through our mouth/nose) so if we can stop it travelling further than...

Lockdown check in - how are you all going out there? The funny thing about life is we all react in different ways - just check your social media. How many of your friends are taking the time to ACTUALLY exercise daily, or eat breakfast when they are usually too busy, or making meals from scratch? Some of us are taking the time to catch up on Netflix and the books they wanted to read - or nap. Some of us probably haven’t really had their day to day adjusted that much - but for most of us the recent...

What are Bitters?

The term bitters refers to alcohol-based extracts of the bark, leaves, roots, or flowers of bitter-tasting plants that have been used medicinally since ancient times for digestive ailments

Liver and Immunity While the focus right now globally is immunity - understandably - we wanted to also highlight the amazing work your liver does and how it is also tied to keeping us well. Our liver works constantly; it processes everything we eat, drink, breathe and put on our skin, and when we are sick it also helps with supporting our immune response. A review -Immune Responses in the Liver (Kubes, P and Jenne, C- Annual Review of Immunology, 2018) highlights how our liver is in fact ‘key and frontline immune tissue’. It helps the body detect pathogens (pathogen =biological agent that causes disease or illness to...