From January 1st I will be putting the prices up for consultations and all medicines. The revised price list will be: Initial Consultation [1-1.5 hours] £80 Follow-up Consultation [30-45mins] £55 Children £50 and then £30 Tinctures 100mls £10.00 Medicinal Teas mixed individually 200g £20 / 100g £15/ 50g £10 Creams and Salves 120ml £20/ 60ml […]
I had just completed a mornings’ teaching, and I felt it was going well. The subject we had been discussing had been arthropathies, and in particular psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and Reiter’s. I like to share an anonymised patient’s case history and treatment plan to help the students understand how to approach building prescriptions, and […]
Plants v the NHS… In 1948 a medical herbalist set up practice on the Talgarth Road in Hammersmith, West London. This was the worst time to start practising as that same year the government in the UK launched the National Health System [NHS] which was to deliver emergency, acute and chronic health care at the […]
For the last few months we have been moving the herbal medicine school to new premises. Up till now we have been hiring village halls etc. once a month for a weekend of seminars. This always involved a lot of carrying of equipment around [microscopes, skeletons, pharmacy stuff like bottles/jars /herbs/scales/bowls/capsule making machines/pessary moulds/tincture press/jugs […]
When I was a young Mum I realised one day that I was weeding the garden and throwing plants on the compost that could be used as medicine. [I had been reading social history books. What did parents do when their kids were sick before the NHS?] As I started to investigate the traditional therapeutic […]
Grass pollens may produce symptoms from April through to July. Tree pollens may cause symptoms from as early as February to as late as September, this varies due to when the tree species involved shed their pollen. Other pollens and moulds may cause symptoms at other times, and house dust/animal fur/mould and fungal spores will […]
Food is medicine, right? Well it can be. If the food you eat is nutritious and contains minerals and vitamins, unrefined carbohydrates, proteins and good natural fats, then it will be giving your body what it needs to function well. So if the bulk of supermarket food is processed and packed, contained additives or is […]
I was musing over the treatment plan for one of my patients. I am due to see them again next week, and I was considering tweaking their prescription, like you do… One of the herbs I thought to add was Valerian, and I was mulling over the possibility of giving to them dried to make […]
I just read a quote online that said ‘Depression isn’t the opposite of happiness: depression is the opposite of purpose.’ So this is me, sitting in my office wondering where my mojo went. I am not depressed but I find myself sitting at my desk today feeling a bit miserable. It has been hard to […]
There is something that I have really, really been intending to try to do but life got in the way. I give plenty of advice to my patients about nutrients, how they should make a meal plan, what to eat for optimum health etc. etc. Then I go into my kitchen and make pancakes because […]