Christine Herbert, a qualified herbalist and former biomedical scientist, shares her journey from lab work to holistic healing. She explores the critical role of inflammation in chronic diseases and how herbs can be used to combat it. Christine delves into food sensitivities, particularly salicylate sensitivity, and offers dietary advice for managing inflammation. The episode highlights specific herbs, like marshmallow root, for gut health and underscores the importance of personalized remedies for long-term wellness. Her insights empower listeners to embrace herbal medicine for improved health.
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From NHS Haematology To Herbalist
Christine shifted from 20 years in NHS haematology to herbal medicine after a mid-30s epiphany.
Her lab background still helps her interpret tests but she prefers clinical skills over routine lab reliance.
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Inflammation As The Root Of Chronic Disease
Chronic diseases commonly share inflammation as their root cause.
Treating inflammation rather than the disease label simplifies therapeutic choices.
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Use Alteratives To Support Body Cleansing
Use alterative herbs to improve elimination and detoxification in chronic ill health.
Take gentle alteratives like cleavers and dandelion regularly to support lymph, liver and kidney function.
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Christine Herbert FAMH, DipAET, BA(Hons) qualified as a herbalist in 1997 and has been practising and learning herbal medicine ever since. During the years of her practice, she added many skills, including nutrition, aromatic medicine and flower essence therapy, in order to be best able to help the many people who came to see her. She retired from practice in 2019 so that she could teach and write using all the knowledge she had acquired. She served on the Association of Master Herbalists council for several years and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship on retirement. Previous to 1997, she worked as a senior biomedical scientist for nineteen years for the NHS. Inflammation, the source of chronic disease: How to treat it with herbs and natural healing was published by Aeon Books earlier this year.
After 20 years working in pathology and haematology, Christine’s enlightenment into the world of herbal medicine has led her on a journey to discovering the importance of diet in our health. She shares her wisdom on how various can herbs work with the body to reduce the inflammation that triggers chronic illnesses. Her positive outlook inspires hope for everybody that almost every health ailment can be improved.
Christine talks on:
Inflammation as a unifying principle of Chronic disease
How herbs tackle inflammation and promote healing
The importance of alterative herbs in chronic ill health
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