Meadowsweet ( Filipendula ulmaria )

It was Social Club afternoon, the speaker talked about complementary medicine.  She was a qualified homeopath, qualified in the Bowen's technique and a CofE vicar, vicaress, vixen (whatever the correct term may be).  Interestingly she stressed the need if you consulted a homeopath to ensure they were members of the professional body as anybody can call themselves a homeopath.  She suffers epilepsy and turned to homeopathy when conventional medicine wasn't doing a job.  She has controlled her fits by homeopathy for 30 years.  However she stressed that if homeopathy didn't work for a condition she was the first inline for conventional medicine.

The blip is of Meadowsweet, many of the roadsides round here are thick with this flower at the moment.  It is well named as it has a strong smell.  However it isn't named because of the smell it was used to sweeten/flavour mead, wine and beer in the long gone by.  It was also used to strew on the floors to sweeten rooms.