Artists

Bethan Wyn Jones



Address: Cae Chwarel, Talwrn, Llangefni, Ynys Môn, LL77 7TF

Phone: 01248 723510 Email: caechwarel@btinternet.com

Botanist, broadcaster, translator, author, lecturer, weekly columnist in the Welsh section of the Daily Post and Education Officer for the Friends of Anglesey Red Squirrels.

Medicinal Plants

Quite often the only information available about medicinal plants is verbal knowledge transferred from one generation to the next.

Anne Griffith, Bryn Canaid, was a relative of the surgeon Emyr Wyn Jones and she could not read nor write but she knew that the foxglove (Digitalis) was used for “weakness of the heart”. This was before William Withering published the paper ‘An account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses’ in 1785. In her talk Bethan gives accounts of different plants, showing examples (if they are in season) and encouraging discussion to follow her talk.

Fee: Fee and travelling costs to be discussed.