Herbs For Healing

11/05/2026

Hello, I am a registered medical herbalist with over 20 years experience. Once a month I am planning to organise a herbal course in my practice in Salisbury. Here is the schedule
1 ) Natural remedies to deal with depression, anxiety and panic symptoms
This is a herbal course that will explore alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs like Va**um, Prozac, Seroxat and others. We will also explore other natural means to help overcome these debilitating symptoms.
30th May at 10:30 until 1pm cost £25
2 )How to harvest & process herbs for infusions, tinctures & capsules
Love the idea of foraging for your own natural first aid kit? This workshop teaches you which herbs to choose, how to dry them and how to further process them. How to make a herbal tincture or turn them into powder and make same herbal capsules.
28th June at 10:30 until 1pm cost £25
3) Herbal Medicine for Common Ailments
The most popular course - an introduction to herbal medicine and its uses for common ailments. What can we do to prevent falling ill? How can we help ourselves if we do fall ill?
19th July at 10:30 until 1pm cost £25
4) Virus, friend or foe?
All throughout history we have experienced that viruses can be harmful and even lethal for many humans. However two facts must be kept in mind: a strong immune system supports us in dealing with viruses, and secondly, most viruses are essential for our survival. Part of our immune system specifically deals with harmful viruses. How do we support and strengthen it?
30th August 10:30 until 1pm cost £25
Please contact me on 07716 872756 if you are interested. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

16/03/2026

Fancy learning more about herbs? Herbal courses are starting again in April. Please check out my website.
19th April: Alternatives to antibiotics, superbugs and MRSA
30th May: Natural remedies to deal with depression, anxiety and panic symptoms
28th June: How to harvest & process herbs for infusions, tinctures and capsules
19th July: Herbal medicine for common ailments
Please contact me for details and booking

23/07/2024

Letter to BBC 2 re Horizon program 22nd July 2024

The Battle to beat Malaria.
I watched last night’s Horizon ‘The Battle to beat Malaria’ and was saddened by how biased it was towards pharmaceutical products. It gives the impression as if pharmaceutical remedies and vaccines were the only effective tools to deal with malaria. Effective plant medicines were used in the past and are being used today.
The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou received the Nobel Prize in 2015 in the field of Physiology and Medicine for her 1971 exploration of sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) that was traditionally used to treat intermittent fevers and malaria. Tu Youyou extracted the ‘active ingredient’ or artemisinin. Tu Youyou’s research yielded remarkable results, in that this work led to the acceptance of sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) as a medicinal agent, and soon it began to be commercially grown on a large scale.
The huge advantage of using Artemisia annua for people in Africa and other affected countries is the availability and very low cost compared to pharmaceutical products. There are organisations that train people how to grow the plant, how to process and how to prescribe it. The use of Artemisia annua helps people to help themselves.

24/01/2024

Very interesting research showing that Ginkgo biloba together with Turmeric have potential to prevent and heal Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative illnesses, and yet, no workable treatments have been discovered to prevent or reverse AD. Curcumin (CUR), the major polyphenolic compound of turmeric (Curcuma longa) rhizomes, and Ginkgo biloba extract (GBE) are natural substa...

24/01/2024

Are there alternatives?

Are they as effective as Big Pharma claims?

19/01/2024

The salad plant with potential cancer cell killing properties is Artemisia annua, a herb that is known to destroy the parasite which causes malaria.

Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than...

02/01/2023

Effects of PROPOLIS on viral respiratory diseases

Propolis remains an interesting source of natural chemical compounds that show, among others, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antioxidative and anti-inflammatory activities. Due to the growing incidence of respiratory tract infections caused by various pathogenic viruses, complementary methods...

16/02/2022

"Much of what heals us, can be found in Nature"

From the cavernous shops in Souq El Blat, herbalists share the rich and fascinating history of their proud and ancient trade – and their fears that it could disappear

07/02/2022

Please consider signing this petition

Exigez le Respect des lois éthiques de l'Essai du Vaccin RTS,S chez les Enfants Africains

16/01/2022

Instructions about how to make artemisia annua infusion

So ake légué ti tongo Artemisia ti kaï na palu la, ala man ni.La Maison de l'Artemisia de la Centrafrique vous propose le mode de préparation de l'Artemisia ...