Work is ongoing at St Anne's with some of the planting beds already completed. We are hoping to get the hard landscaping completed by Xmas. Further updates will be posted soon. Members can also check out the Physic Garden page in the members section.
IRH member Marina Kesso of Iona Herbal and Bareroot Botanicals has been publishing a series of short videos on harvesting and preparing herbal medicines. To check out the videos see here.
The IRH brought Keith and Maureen Robertson, founders of the internationally renowned Scottish School of Herbal Medicine over to Ireland recently. A very interesting weekend looking at the energetic approach to herbal medicine coincided with some great weather which made for a pleasant change. Discussing scientific approaches to energetic medicine.. David, hard at it. John [...]
Organised by L’Institut pour la Protection de la Santé Naturell Paris, France, 13th & 14th April 2013 Report by Peter Jackson-Main (IRH European Consultant). I attended the above conference in Paris, in order to foster links with the natural medicine community in France, to monitor responses to European medicines legislation, and to gather ideas that [...]
HerbFeast 2013 The 2nd HerbFeast organised by the Community of Irish Herbalists took place at The Organic Centre in Co Leitrim last weekend. The event kicked off with the incomparable David Winston taking a herbwalk on what was a glorious evening, followed by his keynote address on Comparative Ethnomedicine in which he discussed [...]
IRH Response: The legendary Sean Boylan was one of the keynote speakers at the conference. Sean will also be the keynote speaker at the National Institute of Medical Herbalists conference later this year.
The European Herbal and Traditional Practitioner's Association, an umbrella organisation for several professional associations across Europe, held its 2012 conference in London recently. John and Danny attended the conference at the University of London Union representing the IRH. The conference was centered around a number of high quality presentations by Dr Rozz Gibbs researching the [...]
August 20th 2012 - The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) today advises that children’s herbal products containing echinacea will no longer be recommended based on the lack of scientific data to support their use. This new advice follows a review by the IMB of available data on the safety and effectiveness of echinacea and it is [...]
The first HerbFeast took place in May 2012. The event was organised by the Community of Irish Herbalists which included several members of the IRH. Over 100 herbalists from across the many herbal traditions gathered at the Organic Centre in Co Leitrim to participate in talks, debates, demonstrations, herb walks and even a herbal table [...]
It has become apparent in recent times that the use of intensive farming practices, increased use of chemicals, destruction of natural habitat, loss of meadows and damage to bogs, as well as out-stretched development of urban areas have had a detrimental effect on native Irish flora. The Irish have always had an intimate relationship with the land [...]
