Grow Your Own Drugs [Series 2] (BBC - 2010)

In “Grow Your Own Drugs” ethnobotanist James Wong unlocked the medicinal power of plants. Now he’s about to unleash their full potential and in his follow up series, show you how to make a fantastic range of natural products for your health, your mind and body, house and home from plants you can grow in your own back garden.

Fresh from designing his own garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show James will be offering more common sense horticultural advice on how and when to plant the most useful varieties. He’ll be delving in to the borders of amateur fanatics and tapping in to expertise of specialist growers as well as finding inspiration in some of Britain’s most spectacular gardens and wild landscapes.

James will create a range of simple and easy to make remedies for common everyday ailments, from calming chamomile teas and angelica infusions for indigestion to eucalyptus inhalations for block up noses and witchhazel gel for zits. He’ll show you how to make your own cheap and luxurious beauty products like peppermint foot scrubs and seaweed shower gels and how to fashion your own fragrances from geranium and roses as well as create home-made walnut furniture polish or a zesty citrus room spray.

Packed full of fascinating historical and scientific insights in to the way plants work and the forgotten knowledge of how to use them, you’ll never look at your garden in the same way again.

[font=Trebuchet MS]Episode 1 - Garden Herbs[/font]
Broadcast: Tue 23 Mar 2010 @ 20:00 on BBC2

In this opening episode, James sets out to reinvent our perception of common and garden herbs. His simple, cheap but highly original recipes include an angelica stomach soother for indigestion, a fragrant anti-dandruff hair oil, and an insecticidal wormwood and sage repellent to help banish the pesky clothes moth. Members of the public try James's remedies and are often surprised by the results.

[font=Trebuchet MS]Garden Herbs recipes[/font] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/growyourowndrugs/s2_episode1.shtml

[font=Trebuchet MS]Episode 2 - Incredible Edibles[/font]
Broadcast: Tue 30 Mar 2010 @ 20:00 on BBC2

In the second episode of ethnobotanist James Wong's series about plant based medicine, he challenges us to look at the medicinal and not just the nutritional value of some of the food we eat.

In a fascinating blend of gardening, cookery, science and history, James shows us how to use turmeric to help ease muscular aches and pains, whips up a moisturising body cream from something you would normally have for breakfast, invites two willing members of the public to try his pungent onion gargle for their recurring sore throats, and shows how to grow watercress on your kitchen work top and transform it in to a mouth watering and vitamin packed soup, ideal if you're a bit anaemic.

[font=Trebuchet MS]Incredible Edibles recipes[/font] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/growyourowndrugs/s2_episode2.shtml

[font=Trebuchet MS]Episode 3 - Exotic Plants[/font]
Broadcast: Tue 6 Apr 2010 @ 20:00 on BBC2

Ethnobotanist James Wong investigates plant-based medicine.

Although his natural remedies for everyday minor ailments frequently use plants that we would consider to be exotic, many of these will grow really well in our own back gardens.

James shows us how to use lemongrass in an insect repellent spray, transform olive leaves into a pampering face mask, make a soothing burns treatment from aloe vera and chamomile and, perhaps most surprisingly of all, reveals that, not only can you grow tea bushes in this country, you can also turn them into a zingy mouthwash to help fight plaque and freshen breath.

Members of the public, in need of help, give his remedies and beauty treatments a go.

[font=Trebuchet MS]Exotic Plants recipes[/font] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/growyourowndrugs/s2_episode3.shtml

[font=Trebuchet MS]Episode 4 - Petals[/font]
Broadcast: Tue 13 Apr 2010 @ 20:00 on BBC2

James focuses on petals, turning chamomile into a luxurious bath milk and honeysuckle and jasmine into soothing jellies for sore throats. Members of the public are impressed by his ear drops made from mullein flowers, while James puts his money where his mouth is and bravely tries out his own rose petal leg waxing treatment. He shows us how to make a chamomile seat and sniffs out the most fragrant rose varieties.

His recipes are simple to follow and cheap to make, and might just soothe your symptoms if you're in need of help.

[font=Trebuchet MS]Petals recipes[/font] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/growyourowndrugs/s2_episode4.shtml

[font=Trebuchet MS]Episode 5 - Shrubs and Trees[/font]
Broadcast: Tue 20 Apr 2010 @ 20:00 on BBC2

In the penultimate episode of his ethnobotanical guide to the medicinal property of plants, James Wong uses trees and shrubs to tackle minor everyday complaints. He shows one shaving rash sufferer how to grow witch hazel and turn it into a cooling gel, and offers three sinusitis sufferers some relief with a fragrant eucalyptus rub that takes just moments to make. He meets expert growers and turns St John's Wort into a skin balm for cuts and wounds, and creates a delicious looking frozen granita from willow bark to help provide pain relief.

[font=Trebuchet MS]Shrubs and Trees recipes[/font] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/growyourowndrugs/s2_episode5.shtml

[font=Trebuchet MS]Episode 6 - Wild Plants[/font]
Broadcast: Tue 27 Apr 2010 @ 20:00 on BBC2

It's the end of James Wong's ethnobotanical journey, and he rounds his series off with a look at the plants that have provided a free living pharmacy for thousands of years: wild plants. Taking care to point out the perils of picking in the wild, James travels to Northern Ireland, where he harvests seaweed for a luxurious seaweed body scrub, forages for elderberries and turns them into an anti-viral jam to help ward off colds and flu, and tries to offer hayfever sufferers some relief with his nettle tea.

He also seeks out a tiny wild flower called eyebright, and uses it to make a compress to soothe tired and itchy eyes. For the green-fingered, James demonstrates how you can make your own mini wild flower meadow in a tiny back garden, and offers some historical and scientific background to the plants he uses.

[font=Trebuchet MS]Wild Plants recipes[/font] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/features/growyourowndrugs/s2_episode6.shtml

[font=Trebuchet MS]Credits[/font]
Producer - Lucy Hooper
Executive Producer - Dan Adamson
Presenter James Wong

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Website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pst7w
James' Site - http://www.jameswong.co.uk/
Info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_Your_Own_Drugs
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