GLANCE in your kitchen cupboard and you could spot the ingredients for a good supper – but did you know that in there could also be the secrets to curing a common cold, fever or even fighting cancer symptoms? Or take a walk around a local country park – can you imagine that some of those plants you pass once saved hundreds of lives? The food we eat and the natural world around us take a very different role when seen through the eyes of a herbalist. Herbalists – people who collect and specialise in the use of herbs for medicine – have been practising as far back as ancient Greece and further.