I offer grateful thanks to the following plant experts who have kindly shared their recipes.
Louise Berliner is an artist and writer from Massachusetts, who loves to play with herbs.
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ChaNan Bonser practices creative kinesiology and runs “Elemental Medicine,” offering physical therapy treatments in Wales, UK.
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Lynn-Amanda Brown is a multifaceted therapist and healer who works in alliance with the sacred energies of the natural world. She lives in Wales, UK.
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Stephen Buhner is the award-winning author of 15 books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He is one of the cofounders of The Foundation for Gaian Studies, an organization that explores and promotes our reconnection with Nature. He lives in New Mexico.
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Anne Chiotis is an herbalist based in Wolverhampton, UK.
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Sharon Cohen is a native plant expert living in the forests of Maryland. She runs Native Design, a company providing heart-base ecological restoration and garden design.
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Michael Cole is a UK forager passionate about making leafu—a protein-rich food made from nettles and other edible wild greens.
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Rachel Corby is a gardener, forager, and writer based in Stroud, UK. She runs Gateways to Eden, offering treatments and running workshops on the power of plants.
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Eliot Cowan developed Plant Spirit Medicine and lives at the Blue Deer Center, New York State. He travels widely, teaching, healing, and promoting a balanced relationship with the human and other-than-human worlds.
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Lesley Cunningham knows a lot about treating her horse friends with herbs.
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Anna Dowding is a true domestic alchemist from North Wales, UK, who invents brilliant lotions and potions and coruns Getafix first aid and wild water sports experiences.
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Geoff Edwards was an herbalist for many years and now runs UK-based t’ai chi center Wutan Bournemouth.
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Teri Evans is a medical herbalist and runs Cunnynge Herbs in Shropshire, UK. Here, she sells artisan herbal tinctures and holds workshops on using herbs.
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Annie Gardner is an herbalist based in Totnes, UK.
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Monika Ghent is an herbalist and a Plant Spirit Medicine Healer. She runs Dreaming Willow natural therapies in Toronto, Canada, and designs and makes natural skin-care products.
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Lucy Harmer is an international author and teacher based in Geneva, Switzerland. She is also a feng shui and space clearing expert, and a high priestess on the Celtic Shamanic Path.
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Shelley Harrison is a healer and yoga teacher based near Ottawa, Canada.
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Christine Herren-Valette is a Swiss herbalist who trained as a medical nurse. She now runs a successful small business, Sancta Herba, making herbal products.
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Johanna Herzog is an herbalist and Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner. She runs a school of medicinal plants, or Heilkraeuterausbildung, near Hamburg, Germany.
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Wizz Holland is a Plant Spirit Medicine healer, forager, fire keeper, and animal communicator. Also a poet and artist, she is based in Devon, UK.
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Louise Idoux is a medical herbalist from Shropshire, UK. She runs the Oswestry Herbarium, providing treatments and courses on making herbal products.
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Catherine Johnson is a consulting medical herbalist in Wales, UK.
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Barbara Jones is an experienced veterinary surgeon who runs Vet Holistic in Shropshire, UK.
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Steve Kippax is an herbalist and TCM practitioner. He is Head of Complementary Medicine at The Third Space Medicine, London’s leading integrated medical center.
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Dedj Leibbrandt is an herbalist and teacher in Hampshire, UK. Dedj was awarded a Fellowship of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists for her work on acute medicine and herbal first aid.
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Marc Luyckx is a domestic alchemist in Switzerland.
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Anne McIntyre is an experienced herbalist, plant grower, writer, and teacher, based in the Cotswolds, UK.
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Neil McNulty is an herbalist, iridologist, and facilitator who lives in Zagreb, Croatia. His practice is called Herba Vitalis, and his healing sanctuary is called “Wild at Heart.”
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Alaina Mecklenburgh is a master herbalist practicing in the southern part of the Lake District in the UK.
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Joe Nasr is a medical herbalist, osteopath, and senior lecturer in herbal medicine, as well as a dedicated and experienced plant distiller. In 1997, Joe founded Avicenna, a company producing unique, high-quality herbal products in Wales, UK.
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Jenny Pao is a holistic health practitioner and aromatherapist. She runs Nectar Essences, a company based in San Francisco.
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Annie Powell runs the Little Green Cream Company, a small ethical company making top-quality skin-care products in Wales, UK.
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Lynn Rawlinson is a consulting medical herbalist and holistic therapist. She lives and works in Merseyside, UK.
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Anna Richardson runs wild food foraging courses for Circle of Life Rediscovery, UK, and is a Forest School leader and author.
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Melissa Ronaldson is a UK-based herbalist with a passion for snuff. She is cofounder of the Herbal Snuff Company.
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Jeanne Rose is an aromatherapist in San Francisco. She runs “The Aromatic Plant Project” and is the director and principal tutor of the Institute of Aromatic Studies.
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Anthony Seifert is a Californian herbalist who is on the faculty at the Ohlone Center for Herbal Studies in Berkeley, CA. He works with both humans and animals, and also runs an herbal supply company, Great Blue Heron Botanical Medicine Making Project.
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Sensory Solutions is a UK-based company run by traditional herbalists Karen Lawton and Fiona Heckels. They teach, grow, and collect plants to produce beautiful, high-quality remedies.
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Maida Silverman is an expert on wild plants that grow in New York City, where she has lived all her life.
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Tanya Smart runs the Yemoya company in Glastonbury, Somerset, UK, which makes the best organic soaps ever.
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Karen Stephenson has created and runs Edible Wild Foods, a wonderful website about foraging and eating wild food. She lives in Ontario, Canada.
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Iain Stewart is an herbalist working with the Rhizome Community Clinic in Bristol, UK.
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Sucandra devi dasi is a domestic alchemist from Hertfordshire, UK.
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Kamala Todd is an artist based in Malvern, UK, who makes rose petal bead jewelry.
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Michael Vertolli is a Western traditional herbalist who lives in Ontario, Canada. He is the founder and director of the Living Earth School of Herbalism.
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Emma Warrener is an herbalist in Lincolnshire, UK. She runs Herbs for Health and Wellbeing.
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Susun Weed is an herbalist and teacher based in Woodstock, NY. She is the voice of the Wise Woman Way.
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Lucy Wells is a plant spirit medicine practitioner and fire keeper based in Shropshire, UK.
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Neil Williams is an herbalist who practices in the northwest of England, UK.
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Sue Wine is a McTimoney chiropractic based in Chester, Cheshire, UK.
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Mathew Wood is a professional member of the American Herbalist’s Guild and the author of six books on herbal medicine. He lives in Oregon.
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