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Catherine Lilburn - Herbalist

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Catherine Lilburn - Herbalist

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27/08/2025

✨ While travelling recently, I was reminded how food is deeply connected to health, culture, and community. The Mediterranean diet is more than a way of eating – it’s a lifestyle that nurtures long-term wellbeing.

Here’s why it’s so powerful for health:

🥗 Plant-rich – abundant vegetables, legumes, wholegrains, nuts, and seeds.

🫒 Healthy fats – extra virgin olive oil and omega-3 rich fish support heart and brain health.

🌿 Herbs & spices – not just flavour, but powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatory allies.

🍷 Mindful enjoyment – meals are slow, social, and savoured.

💖 Proven benefits – studies link this way of eating with reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and improved longevity.

Healing often begins at the table – through nourishment, joy, and connection.

05/08/2025

I am back in the clinic working after the ICNM conference & a couple of weeks travelling through some beautiful places around the Mediterranean.

It’s always fun to see what is on offer in pharmacies & markets & grand bazaars overseas. There are different supplements available & difference combinations of ingredients in pharmacies.

But there are also herbs that pop up all over the world in supplements & markets. Some favourites like turmeric, saffron, lavender, chamomile & medicinal mushrooms. Timeless ingredients that have survived & thrived over centuries of use to support our health & healing 🌿

06/07/2025

The ICNM Congress of Integrative & Naturopathic Medicine in Paris has just wrapped up & what a wonderful experience it was 🇫🇷

We were lucky to make it to Paris after our flight was changed due to the French air traffic controller strike on the day we were due to arrive 😥

Some highlights from the 3 days include:

🌿 Some wonderful presentations from practitioners from around the world on diverse topics (microbiome health, hormonal health, brain health, inter generational trauma and so much more)

🌿 Connecting with colleagues from the US & Canada (and Australia) and sharing our experiences in practice

🌿 Being part of the ICNM team and introducing speakers (within a few hours of arriving in Paris!)

🌿 Exploring the Marais district and sampling beautiful French food, but realising I really need to improve my French speaking skills 🇫🇷

21/06/2025

Happy winter solstice! Shortest day of the year for us southern hemisphere folk. And such a beautiful day to enjoy a walk and an ocean swim, it’s really not cold in the water yet! 🤩

16/06/2025

🌿 Clinic news 🌿 I will be away from 3rd July until 4th August, as I am attending the ICNM conference in Paris. So, please let me know if require any orders by the end of June. If you are wanting an appointment I can put you on a waitlist or book you in from mid-August for a catch up. I hope you are loving the sunny winter weather, which are so lovely for beach walks 🌞

31/03/2025

Highlights from a weekend in Newcastle at the Estuary Learning Art of Healing conference:

🌿 The Friday night opening of the beautiful Hygea Apothecary set up by Cath Minter & Jess Schaad two incredible colleagues & friends 🌿

🌿 Listening to the inspirational keynote speech by Petrea King who runs the Quest for Life Foundation in Bundanoon 🌿

🌿 Managing to embrace the fear of standing in front of more than 100 people and talk about the Healing Power of Medicinal Mushrooms 🌿

🌿 Listening to wonderful colleagues discuss Nervous system herbs, dosing in Herbal Medicine and much more 🌿

🌿 Floating in a sound bath on Sunday morning at the start of the day, so relaxing & worth experiencing 🌿

🌿 Spending time with friends & colleagues some of whom I have known for 25 years 🌿

24/03/2025

Lion’s mane (Hericium erinaceus) is one of the cool kids on the Medicinal Mushroom block 🍄‍🟫. It has such an unusual and distinctive appearance.

Lion’s mane has been used in the traditional medicine of China for general debility & neurasthenia (weak nerves).
This gives us a hint as to how Lion’s mane may be beneficial medicinally.

Along with the other benefits of Medicinal mushrooms for immune health, Lion’s mane contains compounds called hericenones and eranicines which induce the nerve growth factor (required by the brain for developing and maintaining important sensory neurons).

So, I think of Lion’s mane when I think brain health. Research has been conducted on the role of Lions’s mane in ADHD, dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke recovery and general cognitive decline.

I will be talking more about Lion’s mane this weekend in Newcastle at the Estuary Learning Conference. I think there are only a few tickets remaining!

20/01/2025

Monday orders 🌿

I spend quite a bit of my time making up herbal tonics and supplement orders. This is why I put aside Mondays for this task as it can be tricky to manage requests whilst doing consultations on Tues, Wed & Thurs.

I leave orders in the box next to my red front door as it’s a safe place to keep them under shelter. Note, the box was empty this morning so it’s been a busy day so far!

13/01/2025

New year intentions! 🤩

Do you like to make New Year’s resolutions? I tend to prefer intentions as they allow for more flexibility and feel like more of a work in progress than a defined goal.

Have you thoughts about any intentions you’d like to set for 2025?

My friends and I have a tradition of gathering on new years morning for a swim and a chat about our new year intentions and a word that could sum up the next year. Although it can be challenging to find one word, it’s a fun practice!

Can you think of a word that could sum up your 2025 intentions? 🤔

Happy new year and reach out if you need any assistance with your wellbeing and health ☀️

23/12/2024

Wishing everyone a happy festive season & hopefully some rest & recuperation over the next few weeks.

I will be returning to work on Monday 13th Jan. Thank you to my lovely clients who have entrusted me with their care over 2024 🫶

02/12/2024

It's hard to believe that 2024 is nearly wrapped up! I hope you have some good holiday plans? I will be finishing up in the clinic on Thursday 19th December and returning to work on Monday 13th January 2025. If you would like any orders fulfilled, please contact me by Monday 16th December at the latest, thank you and happy festive season to you! 🎉

11/11/2024

So, a CGM is a Continuous Glucose Monitor, a little device that is attached to your upper arm and tracks your blood glucose levels in real time.

I’ve known about them for a while (especially in the diabetes space) but have been curious about what they could reveal about individual variations in blood sugar in response to food and exercise.

So, I’ve been tracking my blood sugar over the past week and have discovered some interesting things!

Firstly, I can definitely see the impact of exercise on blood sugar and how it tends to lower blood sugar if you exercise after eating. I have also seen my blood sugar lower significantly in response to weight training and increase after high intensity cardio.

It’s been interesting to see my blood sugar spike if I have eaten refined carbohydrates, such as white rice. The second image shows my blood sugar spike after eating a vegan choo chee curry with white rice & sweet potato/taro rolls last Friday. I then had a reactive hypo glycemic response after the glucose high. So, I may not be eating that lunch meal again ..

I don’t think it’s important for everyone to track their blood glucose levels, but it’s certainly been an interesting experiment that has given me quite a bit of insight into my blood sugar patterns and some hints at what I can do better for managing my energy and for improving blood sugar regulation.

I’m happy to share these findings with anyone who’s interested 😊

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27 Wilkies Street
Thirroul, NSW
2516

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

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+61418114944

Website

http://www.cathlilburn.com/

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