Growing Medicine

25/07/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/maggiepope/p/filling-up-days-as-a-herbalist?r=1en9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

18/07/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/maggiepope/p/have-you-ever-heard-of-bull-thistle?r=1en9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

16/07/2025

Had a chuckle this morning. The 'World Journal of Clinical Surgery' invited me to submit an article or research to their publication....

I don't know what sort of charlatan set up they have, or what sort of Herbalist they think I am, but a bit of research before they spam people might get them more results.

11/07/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/maggiepope/p/a-specific-targeted-action-for-joint?r=1en9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

04/07/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/maggiepope/p/why-do-bitter-herbs-heal?r=1en9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

27/06/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/maggiepope/p/are-herbal-medicines-really-that?r=1en9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

25/06/2025

I have been making boring soap for years. It doesn't look pretty, but it is easy, I know what's in it, and I make 11 bars for very little money. I use Becky's Homestead bar soap recipe.

20/06/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/maggiepope/p/cracking-knees-and-stiff-mornings?r=1en9e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Support for Damaged Cartilage and Joint Pain

14/06/2025

Interested in becoming a qualified Medical Herbalist?

We are currently accepting applications to study with us.
What we offer;
- Face-to-face tuition in our own school building in Somerset
- In-house training clinic from Year 3
- A thorough academic and practical study of medicinal herbs
- Comprehensive clinical examination skills
- Pharmacy for two years making creams, hydrosols, tinctures & more...
- Botany for two years, including field trips
- Herbal Therapeutics & Clinical Medicine, learning the cause of disease and how to approach treatment with medicinal herbs, nutrition and lifestyle
- Microbiology & Immunology for two years
- Public Health & Hygiene looking at how water, air, and soil quality affect our health and what is happening to our environment through climate change
- Materia Medica; a deep dive into the constituents, properties and actions of over 100 medicinal herbs
- History of Herbal Medicine spanning centuries up to the present time
- Dissertation/research module where you follow of specific area of interest
- Anatomy & Physiology of the human body covered in great detail
- And Pharmacognosy, the identification, sourcing, preparation, properties, actions, and uses of drugs where you get to make you own Herbarium
- Then finally - your Final Clinical Exam, where you will take a real patient and be assessed on your patient skills, diagnostic and herbal skills and examination technique.
That is why our course takes 6 years...
Application forms are available on our website:
schoolofherbalmedicine.co.uk