These Cuts Won’t Heal – Community Healthcare Scrapped in North Edinburgh
Last week a public NHS/Edinburgh Council body called the Edinburgh Integrated Joint Board (EIJB) met to allocate funding for Health &Social Care projects within Edinburgh over the next three years.Their budget for this was a mere £14.1 million pounds, down from...
What Is Radical Herbalism?
The word ‘Radical’ comes from the Latin ‘radix’ meaning root. A radical approach is one which asks questions about the root causes of problems in our society, and works to fundamentally challenge and address those. Radical Herbalism & radical approaches to health...
Working towards Herbal & Medical Collaboration in Wester Hailes
This month in the Wester Hailes Community Herbal Clinic, we had a kind invitation from one of our resident GPs at the next door GP surgery, Dr Sineaid Bradshaw. She agreed to have us come and spend some time observing her consultations. We are in a very privileged...
My First Published Article! Herbs for Withdrawal from Opiates & Benzodiazepines
In the communities in which I work, drug use and addiction is a widespread problem. I have been interested for a long time in what role herbal medicine can play in supporting people who are withdrawing from drug use, and to that end I went and spent a week in Dublin...
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