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“Bringing herbal tradition, and the healing power of nature to benefit patients.”
A revealing history of modern medicine’s divergence from herbal tradition — and how we can restore the balance. Written by physician-herbalist Dr. Dilis Clare and researcher Tim Morrissey, this evidence-based book challenges the status quo and reclaims herbs as a cornerstone of patient-led care.
Reviews of Uprooted Medicine
“Uprooted Medicine is an important and highly readable book, which contains a wealth of historical detail backed by solid academic research and informed by decades of clinical practice. It shows convincingly that the story generally told, that patient outcomes have justified the replacement of folk and natural medicine traditions by synthetic medicines and surgical interventions, has been largely an invention, and argues forcefully for a gentler approach to patient care that does not let ideology or turf wars get in the way of real world evidence of benefit.”
Adrian McDermott Biography: a co-founder, teacher, and learning platform developer for the Heartwood Professional Course in Herbal Medicine. He is co-authorwith Hananja Brice-Ytsma of the book Herbal Medicine in Treating Gynaecological Conditions: Herbs, Hormones, Pre-Menstrual Syndrome and Menopause.
“If you are intrigued by the title and contents of this book, prepare for it to exceed your expectations. ‘Uprooted Medicine’ is a meticulous critical analysis and historical context for current modern medical systems that, unlike many scholars and authors, avoids a blanket caricature of historical medicine that sidelines the efficacy of medicinal plants. Instead, it runs through with the warmth of real life herbal medicine patient stories and practice experiences from a doctor who works as a medical herbalist physician, and has been pleasantly surprised by this ancient and still very relevant health profession.”
Anita Ralph Biography:MSc (herb med) FNIMH MCPPBiography:Consultant Medical Herbalist, and co-author of Native Healers: which offers a foundation in Western herbal medicine is the text-book to accompany the Heartwood Foundation Course co-written with her colleague Mary Tassell. Anita also contributed the herbal medicine chapter of the DK Natural Menopause book by Anne Henderson and published a prospective audit of menopause patients receiving herbal treatment in the Journal of Herbal Medicine in 2020.
“This is a huge, sweeping undertaking, accomplished with clarity, erudition, and deep, practical knowledge of our health systems (plural). I expect to see this on the required reading lists for all clinical herbal medicine degree courses, and our evolving conventional medicine schools would do well to put it on theirs.
Anne Cheshire Biography: BA(Hons), BSc (Hons), SEP, MNIMH is director of the Trauma Recovery Clinic in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has, for the past 15 years, specialised in addressing trauma, traumatic stress, post traumatic stress syndrome, other complex stress-related syndromes and immune system dysfunctions such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and all mind-body responses to emotional stress and physical trauma.
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