If I want to build an old school herb and medicinals garden, what should I put in it?

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

I've always wanted one. So I'm going to turn a corner of the garden into one. Any recommendations what to put in it? Anything old world or unusual I should look out for?

OP, could you ask MN to move this to the gardening section so it doesn't get lost in Chat? I don't have time (and am too ill) to do anything about my garden this year, but am quite inspired to try some of these next year, and would hate to have lost all the info

We've got foxgloves, monkshood and tansy - but not for consumption! Be careful.

There'd be different recommendations for authenticity, vs actual herbal treatments.

Nasturtiums
Horse radish

purslane

Be careful with hypericum too (St Johns wort). We've just pulled out all ours as it set off DH's asthma terribly.
I've just pulled all the borage out too, as it had gone utterly rampant!
I read this week that rosemary can be effective against the aging of the brain/ memory issues.

This looks a lovely thread upon which to mark one's place for herbs that I can't kill
May I move to our gardening topic so it doesn't get lost after 90 days please?

oh what a lovely idea, it would be a shame if it disappeared.

guerre how do you prepare the rosemary?

I love reading that list of names, it's like poetry. I just wish my internal voice sounded deep and resonant

I came home from work - surveyed my garden and something has eaten my Angelica .. [anger] .. . What could have done this?

On the brighter side I have just 'discovered' a garden possibility.. moss. Specifically Sagina subulata 'Irish Moss' and Saxifraga x arendsii - they will hopefully give the garden an older feel once it has spread a little. I just love the way moss looks in a forest and so will try and recreate it around the trees in the bird patch.

Stuff getting eaten is normally rabbits around here. I came home to find my fledgling sunflowers had been eaten last year.

I have more, but would be very sad without lemon balm (tons of it, and it does form big clumps/take over), chives and black elder. No doubt someone is going to tell me how dodgy it is, but I have become very fond of a homemade cough remedy/ general immune booster made of black elder, runny honey (and a touch of vodka). Lemon balm - all-round lovely thing, do not miss the opportunity to make a kind of tea-still lemonade with it and then chill it. I live on it in the Summer and it is a whole different ballgame from when it is served hot.

• Sorry black elderberries used in the syrup, not leaves. The plant produces elderflowers too but these are baby pink which makes a cute change from the white ones, though prob not quite enough for making elderflower syrups unless from a very large plant or you mix with the usual type.

Watch some Cadfael

Probably not averse to a nip of vodka, that Cadfael.

Marking place because "watch" isn't working. :/

Aloe Vera