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 […]
Category Archives: Herbal Medicine
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Mar
Mar
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 […]
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Apr
Apr
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 […]
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Apr
Apr
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 […]
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Dec
Dec
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 […]
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Jan
Jan
Apart from making medicine from medicinal plants and seeing patients, I teach students who want to become Medical Herbalists at The School of Herbal Medicine in Devon. This weekend I am teaching Herbal Therapeutics & Clinical Medicine to Year 3 on Saturday and Year 2 on Sunday. Other weekends I teach Pharmacy. These seminars run […]
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Feb
Feb
There are some things you only find out in the doing. I wanted to make a decocted tincture. This would involve decocting [or simmering] the roots in water, then adding that water as part of the ethanol/water mix that we use as a solute for making tinctures. The roots were small and hard. I bought […]
https://www.countrywives.co.uk/middle-age/ MAGGIE HAS A COMPLETE TURNAROUND IN MIDDLE AGE 0 BY GUEST WRITER ON JUNE 28, 2019 ·STORIES I was an unlikely candidate to apply for university. Aged 43, I had small children to care for during the day, a self-employed husband who needed support, and I was just recovering from major surgery. The common expression for a […]
I bought an old Pharmacy book published 1914, full of old practical chemistry exam papers from 1929 and hand-written notes from someone trying to help the recipient through their exams… This book comes from an era when opium and cannabis were still prescribed as medicines. I have been enthralled by the wide range of […]
I got my story about how and why I became a Medical Herbalist into the Herb Society magazine. Becoming a Medical Herbalist: Using herbs as part of an effective system of medicine… By Maggie Pope Many years ago as a young housewife I used to read social history books, and wondered what mothers used […]