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Upon seeing this thoughtful review on LinkedIn, Dr Dílis Clare shared the following reflections:
“I am bowled over by your thoughtful and carefully considered review of our bookYou bear witness to the intention of our book. Your comments speak to our commitment to framing our lens from the patient’s perspective.”
“After holding the book in my head over the years of gestation I fell positively lightheaded heading into the new year, and your obviously heartfelt review is such a joy so thank you for taking the time and headspace involved with such care.”
-Dr Dílis Clare
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“Bringing herbal tradition, and the healing power of nature to benefit patients.”
“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.
Join Dr Dílis Clare each week for clear, grounded conversations about herbal medicine, everyday wellbeing, and the wisdom behind plant-based care. Dr Clare blends decades of clinical experience with practical tips, personal stories, and thoughtful reflections on how herbs support real people in real life. It’s an easy, insightful listen for anyone curious about integrating natural approaches into modern healthcare.
Expect gentle education, lively conversation, and plenty of moments that make you say, “I never knew that.”
Reviews of Uprooted Medicine
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.
Anne Cheshire “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.
Book Launch News — “Uprooted Medicine”
The launch of Uprooted Medicine by Dr Dílis Clare and Tim Morrissey was a huge success, with Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop packed to the door. Tribes Press, Dr Clare and Tim all spoke about why this book is already seen as groundbreaking and so needed in modern herbal medicine.
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