Designer Nienke Van De Pol has utilised her ceramic expertise to create a home herbal remedy brewing kit. Taking ingredients that can be found in your (perhaps slightly above) average garden, the kit provides budding herbalists with the equipment necessary to put together natural cures to a host of ailments.

Hay fever sufferer? Simply brew up an infusion of stinging nettle and chamomile. Simple.

With the prices of traditional pharmaceuticals often being quite expensive, as well the increasing interest in more natural, alternative medicines, the appeal of being medically self-sufficient is understandable.