Do you know gemmotherapy? In Azerat in Dordogne, an herbalist workshop has made it its specialty. Vesunna develops and markets food supplements based on buds and young plants. “Gemmotherapy is a field of phytotherapy explains Nathalie Néaud, co-manager of Vesunna. The buds contain stem cells which, in the spring, will differentiate into leaves or twigs. So that the bud, in the spring, will contain all the active ingredients of the plant in the making, which makes it a very complete compound. In particular, it contains all these active ingredients, but also water. The water which will be the vehicle of these principles and the vehicle of energy “.
35 different buds or young shoots
“Vesunna transforms and markets no less than 35 different buds or young shoots specifies Nathalie Néaud. “Linden, hawthorn but also lesser-known trees such as black alder and trees that surround us a lot in the Dordogne. Oak, oak, chestnut, etc. “We mostly harvest our buds in the wild, around our home most often, but we have three plants that are not harvested in the wild: the vine, the walnut tree and therefore the buds of blackcurrant “. Picking of buds begins at the end of February with the blackcurrant and continues until May with the redwood.
Behind, it was necessary for us for this first year, to create our websitecontinues Nathalie Néaud, create our labels, declare our buds and our products to the DGCCRF because they are all validated by the DGCCRF. And now we have started marketing “.