About me
I qualified as a Medical Herbalist in 1980 with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, winning the Pharmacology prize. I ran a training clinic for herbal students on behalf on NIMH at Highgate Natural Health Centre 1980-2 and was a tutor at the School of Herbal Medicine Tunbridge Wells 1979-84, in Clinical Skills, Pathology and Pharmacology.
I had a private herbal practice in London 1979-1989. I taught the first Adult Education evening class in Herbal Medicine in London in 1981 at the Chequer Centre Islington and devised and taught adult education in Herbal Medicine and Women’s Health at the City Lit, WEA and ILEA until 1989.
In 1989 I worked with the Catholic Institute of International Relations, first in Nicaragua and then in The Dominican Republic, researching Traditional Medicine.
I remained in the Dominican Republic until 1999 working with Traditional Medicine in Villa Mella and La Romana. I have taught workshops all over the world.
Recently I ran workshops in Magical Herbalism and Astrology and Herbalism at the Radical Herb Gatherings 2015 and 2016 in England.
I am a guest tutor at Heartwood School of Herbal Medicine and have lectured at the University of Westminster in Traditional Western Herbal Medicine.
I have a BA (hons) and a MA in Classical Studies writing on the Gorgon/Medusa, the subject of my latest book Monstrous Women.
Publications:
A Woman’s Book of Herbs, 1992, The Women’s Press. 2018 Aeon Books.
Women Healers Through History, 1993, The Women’s Press, 2019 Aeon Books.
A Woman’s Book of Shadows, 1993, The Women’s Press. 2019 Aeon Books.
Herbal Therapy for Women, 1993, Thorsens. 2018 Aeon Books. Medicine Women, 1994, The Crossing Press.
Traditional Western Herbal Medicine, 2019. Aeon Books.
Goddess Astrology, Aeon Books 2022.
Ageing Gracefully, Aeon Books 2024.
Monstrous Women, Aeon Books 2025.
