What Is Herbal Health Information?

Herbal Health Information (herbalhealthinformation.com) is a personal website run by Linda Bostock, a UK-based qualified Medical Herbalist with twenty years of clinical experience. It shares her own knowledge, views, and experience of healing with plant medicine rather than acting as a comprehensive reference database. If you want practitioner-written, experience-led herbal content — herb lists, condition lists, herb walks, and practical preparations — this site fits that purpose. If you need exhaustive clinical facts and figures, the site itself points you elsewhere.

Who runs the site

Linda Bostock describes herself as a fully qualified Medical Herbalist who has run busy healing clinics for the last twenty years. She studied Herbal Medicine at the School of Phytotherapy in Bodle Street Green, East Sussex, and notes that the school is no longer there following the death of its principal, Mr Zeylstra.

She has recently moved to the Thames Valley area and sees patients in Reading during the week and in Eton on Saturdays.

What you'll find on the site

The site is organised around a small set of sections, listed in its own navigation:

• My Clinic — information about seeing Linda as a patient
• Health Conditions List — conditions covered on the site
• Herb List — the herbs covered
• Video Herb Walk List — recorded herb walks
• Picture Gallery — images of plants
• Privacy Policy and Safety Warning

The stated aim is to help you build up knowledge of medicinal plants growing in the countryside, and to show how to make herbal teas, decoctions, and syrups. The site describes itself as a work in progress, with herb walks recorded "weather permitting."

How the content is framed

Two things are worth knowing before you use the site as a reference:

1. It is explicitly personal, not definitive. Linda writes that the site is "certainly not the definitive herbal medicine site," and that what it offers is her knowledge, her views, her experience, and her passion for plant medicine. Treat it as one practitioner's perspective.
2. Identification is treated as a learner's task. She notes that at the School of Phytotherapy, students learned the medicinal values of plants but had to teach themselves what plants look like in the wild, where to find them, and how to identify them — which is part of why the herb walks and picture gallery exist.

A Safety Warning page is part of the site's navigation, which is the relevant page to read before acting on any plant or preparation information.

Booking a clinic appointment

If you want to discuss treatment rather than read, the site gives a direct route: call 0771 6013925 to discuss your requirements and book an appointment. Locations and days are Reading during the week and Eton on Saturdays.

The ebook

The site's front page carries a promotion for Linda's ebook, How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Virus, available from Amazon. It is described as 260 pages with numerous illustrations, priced at £4.99/$6.99, and framed as health survival information. The site links to Amazon for details and a preview.

What the site is not

• It is not a full herbal materia medica — the site says so itself.
• It does not present itself as a substitute for consulting a qualified practitioner; it offers a clinic for that.
• The homepage mentions a "subscribe" option, but no pricing or access terms for it are stated on the page, so don't assume it is free.

Bottom line

Use Herbal Health Information if you want practitioner-authored, first-person herbal content — herb and condition lists, herb walks, preparation methods, and plant photos — from a UK medical herbalist with two decades of clinic experience. Use it alongside, not instead of, a comprehensive herbal reference, and read the Safety Warning before using any plant or preparation it describes.