David suggested starting a thread here amongst ourselves for herbal experiences that may be of interest. Given we are not all central to one geographical location - it could be local to you, or of past travels. My inspiration for asking was my upcoming trip to Ireland. I am relatively new on my herbal journey. So I don't feel I have much at this time to contribute.

I'd love to hear what experiences other learning herbalists are having. I have an interesting (curiously strange) experience the other night. I understand that catnip (Nepeta cataria) is a nice nervine to help with getting to sleep. In DW's book on Adaptogens he mentions it on page 262 for other uses. When I made it, I mistakenly put too much in my boiling water and it was boiling for a minute before I turned it off and covered the pot with a lid. I poured myself a cup and sat down to chat with my visiting in-laws. The odd thing that happened was my cats ran into the kitchen, started rolling around on the floor and generally freaking out happily.... it was like they got some of the constituents of the catnip that makes them "happy" via the air! It was all three cats, so I cannot say that that just one cat was acting "happy." I wonder why, they all seemed like they had ingested the catnip via their usual methods: sniff and lick. I offered the cats some of my tea and while it was cool, they were very interested by didn't want to drink the catnip water. LOL. Anyway, I'd like to know why they acted "happy"... any ideas?