Clinical herbal prescribing for acute illness. Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm.

Herbal medicine prescriptions and herbal medical treatment advice for childhood infections, chest infections, UTIs, mastitis, coughs, ear infections, sinusitis and acute family illness requiring immediate clinical attention.

Conditions treated

Herbal treatment for chest infections — Herbal remedies for UTIs — Mastitis — Ear infections — Sinusitis — Sore throat and tonsillitis — Coughs and upper respiratory infections — Childhood fever — Gastrointestinal infections — Cystitis — Skin infections — Acute immune support

Herbal Medicine

Your prescription is prepared as personalised herbal sachets by a UK clinical dispensary using medicinal-grade, ethically sourced botanicals.

This is not a replacement for urgent medical treatment if required. 

How to book

Book online or call Rachael directly on 07879 401171. The consultation is remote and runs Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm. Your prescription is dispatched from the dispensary within 24–48 hours of your consultation.

Consultation: 30–40 minutes | £65

[Book an Acute Appointment]

* if bookings are after 11 am prescriptions will be sent out the next day. Prescription service is Monday - Friday only, so if seen after 11 am on Friday it will be sent out on Monday. 

A 75-minute in-depth consultation with Rachael, with your recommendations for your first month’s bespoke botanical medicine and your Personal Health Blueprint — a written assessment of your constitution, your body and a personalised health plan.

Rachael will be in touch within 24 hours of booking to arrange your session.

Herbal Medicine is prescribed and invoiced separately based on your individual formula.

Follow-up consultations are available at a reduced rate and arranged directly with Rachael.

Online consultations available internationally. In person in Sussex, UK.

Every birth is different. Having the right tools on hand — wherever it goes — can make all the difference.

To sustain a mother’s energy. To ease tension or pain. To offer emotional support in the moments she needs it most. Being able to do that with botanical medicine is something women have understood for centuries.

The Holistic Birth Bag is the result of nearly a decade of Rachael’s immersion in the world of birth — learning from birthkeepers and herbalists across the globe, from wise women and mentors, from clinical research and from the great traditional women’s herbals of cultures around the world. Every remedy in this bag carries that accumulated knowledge. Every product is handcrafted with artisan skill and apothecary precision — aromatic, colourful, exquisite and deeply intentional.

This is not a generic wellness kit. This is one of a kind.

Made specifically for you, following a personal consultation with Rachael. Medicinal grade. Ethically sourced. Crafted by hand with the care and expertise of a clinical herbalist who has spent years learning the art of botanical birth support from every tradition she could find.

For mothers preparing for any kind of birth — hospital, home, birth centre or freebirth. And for doulas and birth workers who want tools that meet whatever the birth room asks of them.

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WHAT’S INSIDE:

Energy Boosting Ginseng Honey

Sometimes a mother reaches a point of real exhaustion during labour. Having an energy boost on hand at that moment is genuinely invaluable. This artisan organic honey is infused with medicinal-grade ginseng — one of the most revered Qi tonics in Chinese medicine, used for centuries to support women through the physical demand of birth. Warm, nourishing and restorative. A teaspoon from the jar or stirred into a warm drink.

Safe for use in birth unless hypertension is present.

Labour Massage Oil

A warm, fragrant organic oil for the hands that hold you. Soothing calendula, calming lavender, clary sage and crampbark — traditionally used to ease cramping and muscular tension. Aromatic and sensuous, it brings immediate comfort to lower back, shoulders or anywhere that carries the weight of labour. The scent alone shifts the room.

Aromatic Room Spray

Handcrafted and deeply aromatic, this is clinical aromatherapy in its most beautiful form. Orange blossom — neroli — has been shown in clinical research to measurably reduce pain perception during labour. Alongside lavender, rose, motherwort and mugwort, this exquisite spray transforms any birth space — hospital room, birth centre, home or under open sky — into something held, sacred and calm. One spray. Everything softens.

Rose Glycerite

Made with organic glycerine and fresh rose petals, this is one of Rachael’s most beloved apothecary creations — a sensuous, fragrant preparation that has become a favourite among the mothers she works with. Rose has been treasured in women’s medicine for centuries — to open the heart, ease soft emotions and bring a mother back to herself in the moments she needs it most. Deeply restorative, gently mood-lifting and completely safe throughout birth. A few drops under the tongue or in water, whenever she needs it. Sweet, colourful and utterly beautiful.

Three Bespoke Herbal Tinctures

Rachael works with you personally — through your consultation — to understand your birth plans, your constitution and your intentions. From this she crafts three tinctures made exclusively for you, drawn from the following:

— Sustained energy through long labour

— Relaxation and tension release

— Emotional support and grounding

— Pain relief

— Supporting balanced contractions when labour slows or stalls

— Postpartum bleeding support

— Placental birth support

Each tincture is a work of artisan craft — formulated with clinical expertise, made by hand and rooted in the accumulated wisdom of traditional birth medicine from around the world. Small, portable, exquisitely made. Full written instructions included. Ready for any kind of birth — hospital, home, birth centre or freebirth.

Post-Birth Perineal Spray

Cool, soothing and immediately comforting. For the hours and days after birth when your perineum needs the most gentle care. Lavender, witch hazel, rosemary, frankincense and rose — anti-inflammatory, healing and beautifully aromatic. An essential piece of the birth bag. Small enough to go anywhere.

All Purpose Balm

A nourishing, comforting balm made with soothing oat, calming calendula, coconut oil, olive oil and beeswax. Entirely natural. For lips, for nipples in the early days of feeding, for hands that need comfort. One of those things that becomes indispensable.

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ALSO INCLUDED:

An in-depth consultation with Rachael — where you share your vision for birth, your concerns, your health history and what you would like support with. From this Rachael prescribes your tinctures and finalises every element of the bag for you.

Ongoing message support throughout — whatever questions arise as birth approaches. Responses within 24 hours, usually sooner.

An additional postpartum tonic tincture for the early days after birth is available on request.

FOR DOULAS AND BIRTH WORKERS:

The relationship between herbalist and birth worker is ancient. Across cultures and throughout history — the birth worker read the room, the herbalist provided the medicine.

Rachael has spent nearly a decade building relationships with birthkeepers, herbalists and wise women around the world — learning from global traditions, from clinical research, from mentors and from the great traditional women’s herbals of many cultures. What she brings to this bag is a level of craft, knowledge and artisan skill that is genuinely rare.

If you support women through birth — in hospitals, homes, birth centres or at freebirth — and want a toolkit that meets every chapter of the birth room, the Holistic Birth Bag can be made for you. Talk to Rachael about what’s right for your practice.

BUNDLE WITH THE POSTPARTUM SUPPORT PACKAGE:

Planning your postpartum too? The Birth Bag and Postpartum Support Package together give you complete botanical care from labour through to the fourth trimester — everything made for you, by the same hands, from the same depth of knowledge.

Birth Bag + Postpartum Support Package — £750

Saving £89 on buying separately.

Contact Rachael to arrange your bundle.

Meet all of your postpartum needs with this completely tailored botanical wellness package.

Whatever your story, you will be met with care by clinical Herbalist and Mama Guide Rachael Faust.

If you are ready to have a fully set, empowered and powerful postpartum, with your needs met, with specialist care, this is a postpartum hamper like no other.

With tailored remedies for breastfeeding, a complete package of womb care remedies and rituals, stunningly beautiful and tasty herbal teas, body products. The complete package.

And the best bit, is that it’s made just for you. No product is ever the same and everything is designed to meet your body, where you are at.

This package includes:

A 1:1 session with Clinical Herbalist and Mama guide Rachael Faust where we will explore your postpartum needs together and tailor any remedies to your body so they nourish and balance your constitution and health / medical needs.

• an Adaptogenic elixir honey, blending delicious herbal powders into an organic honey, to support your emotional wellbeing, your energy and promoting restful sleep.

• A personalised postpartum Medicine blend - a delicious herbal tea, based on an ancient formula to support mothers in the early days of the postpartum. With nourishing, enriching herbs and fruits which make you feel better, more balanced and fortified. Giving your body back what it needs after birth.

• A personalised herbal medicine tincture, with gentle but potent and specific herbs to bring your body back into balance after birth. Focussing on womb healing and supporting your digestion as you heal after birth and start breastfeeding.

• A gentle and soothing perineal spray, with specialist herbs to support perineal healing after birth.

• A nourishing and stunningly fragrant womb oil, to massage your womb and body with high quality, breastfeeding friendly oils for the body.

• A gentle nipple salve - beeswax, coconut oil, calendula and oat.

• Serene Sitz Baths - have the most relaxing, luxurious, healing herbal baths after your birth. Use these beautiful, fragrant and stunningly effective herbs either as a sitz bath, or in a full bath to relax and promote body healing.

• ‘Hug Me Tea’ - a rose based delicious herbal tea with heart-focussed herbs, to support your wellbeing postpartum. Sometimes every mama needs a hug! Well this tea is for that moment.

• Dandelion Choffee - a delicious coffee alternative, with roasted dandelion, burdock, cardamom and medicinal mushrooms to support hormone balance, immunity, liver detoxification and beautiful skin. A stunningly flavourful alternative to coffee.

• A package of sweet Red Jujube Fruits, a timeless addition to your food, broths and stews to nourish you and ‘build the blood’, which every mama needs to do after giving birth. An ancient and important remedy which honours traditional postpartum practices.

• Organic black sesame ghee with vanilla and honey. Perfect mineral boosting to support healthy postpartum hair

• A beautiful, fragrant, environmentally friendly candle, to support your postpartum environment and making your cosy nest.

• surprise gift, based on whatever wild medicine Rachael has been hand-crafting. A delicious gift to truly delight, brought right from nature to your bedroom in hand-crafted, sustainable and slow product making just for new mothers.

• Whatever else you feel you need to make your postpartum completely perfect.

• Full instructions for use.

This package includes on-going text support - replies within 24 hours. So you can feel held during your postpartum.

*Please book in by week 35 - these hampers take weeks to prepare and are artistically made, hand-crafted with the highest quality produce and tailored to you, which takes time.

If you are buying for yourself, or someone else, who is closer to birth, please get in touch to arrange, either via Instagram @themothersherbalist or via my contact page.

Why this?

The gentlest and most restoring postpartums are planned for and do not happen by chance. They happen because you choose to give yourself that experience. They happen because you choose to meet your needs before they happen. Work with someone who has supported hundreds of women along the journey you now take. Rachael Faust understands the emotional and physiological needs of mothers in the postpartum. Each product is centred around a unique need of mothers at this point in time.

Do you want to learn more about how to meet your needs in the postpartum?

Not sure what you need from your postpartum? Would you like to explore this? Why not book in some time with Clinical herbalist and Mama Guide Rachael Faust to explore what your needs might be? Please select a 1:1 session with me for this purpose.

So that we can get you set for what you will need during your postpartum.

Contact Rachael

@themothersherbalist

Nurture your body after birth with natural care products.

You need special care after birth, you’ve made a huge journey.

With time-honoured postpartum medicines made precisely for new mothers:

• Gentle, fragrant and soothing womb and body care 

• Deeply nourishing, mineralising, restorative herbal medicines

Contains:

• Perineal spray - a soothing spray for your perineum after birth. See page for details on this cooling, gentle oh so soothing spray made perfectly for a mama after birth.

• Postpartum Medicine Herbal Tea Blend - an essential tonic for the postpartum Mama with goji berries, red dates and nettle and chamomile. Based on an ancient formula to build the blood after birth, support digestion and relieve fatigue.

• Blissful Elixir Postpartum Adaptogenic Honey - an organic honey with Ayurvedic Queen Shatavari and other adaptogenic powders mixed in, blended to support sleep, balanced energy and emotional nurturing in the days following birth.

• Serene Sitz Bath Herbal Blend - Use the potent but gentle herbal blend to take care of your womb after birth. Use either as a sitz bath, or add to luxury herbal bath to heal your whole body in those precious days post birth.

• Black sesame paste : an essential mineral matrix for the postpartum used as hairloss prevention.

• An Iron building tincture (100ml) - nettle, black Mulberry, Red Date.

• A surprise gift often makes its way in.

If a perineal spray is not desired, it’s possible to have a ‘Hug Me’ tea instead. Just use the drop down below.

Packed in tissue paper, with rose petals, an instruction leaflet. Every detail is taken care of.

Everything to delight a mama with a comforting package to nurture her around her postpartum.

The most deliciously exquisite totally organic black sesame vanilla ghee.

Made to nourish the female body gynaecologically, in the postpartum and beyond. 

A hormonal tonic and hair thickener. 

Designed and Hand crafted by master herbalist and women’s health specialist Rachael Faust.

Made fresh to order. 

More info…

Rich, grounding, and deeply restorative, this organic black sesame vanilla ghee is crafted as both nourishment and indulgence. Black sesame seeds have long been revered for their ability to replenish and rebuild—rich in minerals that support hormonal balance, healthy hair and skin, and the deep reserves so often depleted in motherhood. Blended into golden, slow-clarified ghee and infused with warming vanilla, this is a food that comforts the nervous system while feeding the body at a foundational level—especially in the postpartum window, where rebuilding blood, supporting recovery, and restoring energy are essential. Its taste is luxuriously smooth, nutty, and gently sweet, making it as delicious as it is functional—something you’ll reach for daily, not just for benefit, but for pleasure.

Traditionally, black sesame is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a gentle yet powerful female tonic—one of the safest and most trusted foods for nourishing the blood and supporting women through menstruation, postpartum recovery, and beyond.

Shepherds Purse Tincture is commonly used in birth as a remedy to stop bleeding and has been clinically proven to reduce bleeding in early postpartum haemorrhage *, as well as heavy menstrual bleeding.

Full instructions for use are available on purchase.

50ml

*bleeding that occurs in the first 6 hours after birth.

2017 study on Shepherds Purse for early postpartum bleeding. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28590768/