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Research papers published in scientific journals, books by contemporary and more distant physicians, doctors of pharmacy, herbalists, botanists and many others… all experts in their fields and the world of plants.
Thomas Bartram is a medical herbalist. He has lived and worked in Christchurch, Dorset in England. A Fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, the Royal Society of Health and the Health Food Institute, he was also the Editor of the journal 'Health for Herbs'.
Rudi Beiser, who has been interested in wild plants since childhood, began growing medicinal and aromatic plants organically in 1993 and founded the La Luna plant factory, which produces organic herbal teas. He is one of the most renowned connoisseurs of medicinal plants in Germany.
Christophe Bernard is an herbalist. He studied medicinal plants in the United States for 15 years. Back in his native Provence, he devoted himself to his passion as a health practitioner.
Léon-Hugo Bonte has been an indoor grower since 1996, and two years later he opened one of the first French growshops, in the east of Paris. He now works as a consultant specializing in supporting the production of medicinal plants in a controlled environment.
Terry Breverton, a contemporary British author with a passion for Welsh heritage, has rewritten Culpeper's famous book for a more modern audience. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) was an English botanist known as the poor man's doctor, making herbal medicine accessible to all. His book, commonly referred to as Culpeper's Complete Herbal, was a huge success when it was first published and has been reprinted ever since.
Dr Jean Bruneton, honorary university professor, taught pharmacognosy at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Angers for 30 years. He is also a specialist in phytochemistry and has co-authored a hundred international scientific publications.
Julie Bruton-Seal is a qualified herbalist, craniosacral practitioner, iridologist and natural healer. She graduated from the Selfheal School, under the direction of Dr. Jill Davies and Christopher Hobbs, in 2000, and is a member of the Association of Master Herborists (AMH). Matthew Seal has a degree in History from the University of Sussex and has worked as an editor and writer in the UK and South Africa since the 1970s.
Dr. François-Joseph Cazin (1788-1864) was a French physician. Author of an imposing Practical and Reasoned Treatise on Indigenous Medicinal Plants, he is considered the ancestor of the French school of phytotherapy.
Philippe Chavanne is a French journalist and writer. He writes books that put nature and its benefits back at the center of daily life.
Andrew Chevallier is an experienced medical herbalist and author of books on botanical medicine. He is a member and past president of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and a member of the College of Practitioners of Herbal Medicine. He also helped found the Herbal Medicine Course at Middlesex University.
Becky Cole, based in Northern Ireland, works as a landscaper after studying at NCAD and TCD. She is also an herbalist by training, having studied with mentors such as Juliet Blankespoor, Marysia Miernowska and Jade Shutes, among others.
Dr. Gilles Corjon is a doctor of pharmacy. Dr. Gilles Corjon is a doctor of pharmacy. Co-manager of a traditional herbalist shop for more than 25 years, he is currently a teacher and scientific director at the Lyon School of Medicinal Plants and Natural Knowledge.
Dr. François Couplan is a French ethnobotanist and writer, specializing in the traditional uses of wild edible plants, which he has studied on all five continents and of which he is a pioneer in Europe.
Dr. Sonny Larsson is a Swedish pharmacist with a PhD in pharmacognosy. He worked as a professor at Uppsala University and Lulea University of Technology, before accepting a position as a plant chemist. Her co-author, Dr. Elizabeth Dauncey, has a degree in botany, with a PhD in plant taxonomy. She has spent most of her career at the Poison Control Centre at Guy's & St Thomas Hospitals in London.
Dr. Gérard Debuigne is a French doctor, specializing in phytotherapy and nutrition. Hi co-author, Dr. François Couplan is a French ethnobotanist and writer, specializing in the traditional uses of wild edible plants, which he has studied on all five continents and of which he is a pioneer in Europe.
Dr. Patrick Depoërs graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Lille in 1984; he practices homeopathy, acupuncture, phytotherapy, aromatherapy, nutritherapy and osteopathy in Dunkirk. Dr. Franck Ledoux obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1982 from the Lille University Hospital; He practices holistic medicine. Dr. Philippe Meurin obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1988, he also graduated in acupuncture, homeopathy and phytotherapy; he teaches at the GREAT.
Michel Dubray is an herbalist, a diploma approved by the French community in Belgium. He is also a nutritherapist who graduated from the School of Natural Medicine and Ethnomedicine in Paris.
Steffen G. Fleischhauer is a landscape designer, specialist in wild plants and author of several identification guides; Astrid Sussmuth is a phytotherapist.
Dr. Jacques Fleurentin is a doctor of pharmacy, lecturer at the University of Metz and President of the French Society of Ethnopharmacology. Its co-author, Dr. Jean-Claude Hayon, is a pharmacist and professor of botany.
Dr. Jacques Fleurentin is a doctor of pharmacy, lecturer at the University of Metz and President of the French Society of Ethnopharmacology. Its co-author, Dr. Bernard Weniger, is a doctor of pharmacy and honorary lecturer at the University of Strasbourg.
Solange Fleurus has been a freelance health journalist for more than fifteen years.
Paul-Victor Fournier (1877-1964) was a French canon and botanist. His major work, 'Les quatre flores de France', published between 1934 and 1940, remains a reference work for the identification of plants in the field.
Born in Silchester, Hampshire, Alys Fowler studied at the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanic Gardens in London, and then the Botanic Gardens in New York, before returning to the UK to complete a master's degree at UCL in 2002. Alys spent a few years presenting the BBC's Gardeners' World series and has since become a prominent horticultural journalist, writing a popular weekly column in the Guardian.
Dr. Anne-Claire Gagnon and colleagues wrote this book published by Éditions Vidal, a specialist in health information. It provides scientifically validated information on the benefits of medicinal plants.
Ève Gaignard, trained in phytotherapy, puts her knowledge both on plants and on the creation of spaces, at the service of projects that respect nature or training around medicinal plants. Xavier Mathias is an author, farmer and trainer around agroecology and permaculture.
Dr. Loïc Girre is a professor at the University of Rennes-1 and a member of the National Academy of Pharmacy; he is also a specialist in medicinal plants and their history.
Sophia Emma Magdalene Grieve (1858-1941), aka Maud, Margaret, Maude or Mrs Grieve, was the founder and director of the Whins School of Medicinal and Commercial Herbalism at Chalfont St. Peter, in Buckinghamshire, England. She is best known today for her 1931 book, A Modern Herbal.
Dr. Christof Jänicke (1953-2017), was a doctor and worked as a pediatric surgeon in a clinic in Berlin. Its co-author, Dr. Jörg Grünwald, worked in Germany as a biologist for medical research, he also specializes in herbal medicine.
Jessica Houdret has a passion for herbs, she has grown them commercially and has led workshops on their many uses. She served on the board of the British Herb Trade Association for several years and served as a director.
Paul Iserin is head of the phytotherapy department at the Bobigny Faculty of Medicine.
As for Jacques Labescat, he is a general practitioner, osteopath and homeopath. He is passionate about the well-being of man as a whole and the author of numerous books.
Sophie Lacoste, editor-in-chief of Rebelle-Santé magazine, has also run the health section of TV magazine for around twenty years.
Pierre Lieutaghi (1939-2023) was pursuing research on the relationships between plants and societies in Western Europe. He was scientific manager of the Salagon ethnobotanical garden in Haute Provence. He was one of the best connoisseurs of traditional knowledge in the field of herbal remedies in France.
Dr. Éric Lorrain is a phytotherapist in Grenoble. He chairs the European Institute of Plant Substances and teaches herbal medicine in the context of inter-university degrees and training for health professionals.
Dr. Claudine Luu is a doctor of pharmacy and natural sciences, she founded the Phytofrance laboratory, as well as the oldest herbalist school in France, IMDERPLAM located in the Hérault. Its co-author, Dr. Annie Fournier, is a doctor of pharmacy, specializing in phytotherapy and relaxation therapies.
Dr. Carole Minker, pharmacist, has studied the traditional uses of medicinal plants by people around the world.
Dr. Carole Minker, pharmacist, has studied the traditional uses of medicinal plants by people around the world.
Michael Moore (1941 – 2009) was an American herbalist. He wrote the Matière Médicale, which is the most widely used to date in English-speaking countries, specifying the methods of preparation and dosages of classical medicinal plants.
Dr Jean Morel has been a doctor in Besançon since 1980. A student of Dr. Jean Valnet, he is president of the Franche-Comté Society of Société Franc-comtoise de Phytothérapie et d'Aromathérapie created in 1982. He has been using plants for more than thirty years and is a lecturer in the university degree in phytotherapy and aromatherapy at the faculty of Besançon.
Marie-Antoinette Mulot (1919-1999) was a French herbalist by virtue of her training as an herbalist at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Montpellier, she was the last to graduate in 1941.
Michel Pierre, a trained pharmacy technician, began his career in a pharmacy that manufactured its own medicines. He has been running the Herboristerie du Palais Royal in Paris since 1972.
Michel Pierre, a trained pharmacy technician, began his career in a pharmacy that manufactured its own medicines. He has been running the Herboristerie du Palais Royal in Paris since 1972. Michel Lis (1937-2015), nicknamed Michel the gardener or green moustache, was a French journalist, known for having hosted the column Michel le jardinier on France Inter.
Dr Monique Simmonds is Deputy Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and has over 30 years' experience in different aspects of medicinal plant research. Dr Melanie-Jayne Howes, a registered pharmacist and chemist, completed a PhD in pharmacognosy before being appointed Plant Chemist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Jason Irving is an herbalist and over the past five years has taught hundreds of people how to find, identify and use wild plants at his foraging and herbal medicine courses in London.
Maria Treben (1907-1991) was an Austrian herbalist and author. She was interested in the 'simples', the ordinary and common healing plants, and collected the recipes and traditional applications of these plants in several books, the most famous of which was 'Gesundheit aus der Apotheke Gottes', translated into 24 languages.
Dr. Jean Valnet (1920-1995) was a French physician and surgeon, specializing in herbal medicine in the fields of phytotherapy and aromatherapy.
Yves Vanopdenbosch is a graduate hospital nurse trained in Belgium, he directs the École des Plantes where he teaches traditional European phytotherapy.
Yves Vanopdenbosch is a graduate hospital nurse trained in Belgium, he directs the École des Plantes where he teaches traditional European phytotherapy.
Matthew Wood has been an herbalist for over 35 years in the United States. He holds a Master of Science in the field of medicinal plants from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, a degree recognized by the University of Wales in Scotland.
Matthew Wood has been an herbalist for over 35 years in the United States. He holds a Master of Science in the field of medicinal plants from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, a degree recognized by the University of Wales in Scotland.
Dr. Max Wichtl (1925-2019) was a chemist, biologist and pharmacist, he was also professor of pharmacognosy at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Vienna and then at the Philipps University of Marburg until his retirement. Dr. Robert Anton has a degree in pharmacy from the University of Strasbourg, he was professor of pharmacognosy and then director of the Pharmacognosy laboratory at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the same university.
Danuta Sobolewska, Irma Podolak and Justyna Makowska-Wąs are pharmacognosy researchers at the University of Jagiellonian in Poland.
Ibtissam Abdi, Noudjoud Lahouel and Bochra Lebiod are researchers in cellular and molecular biology at the University of Jijel in Algeria.
Sara Motyka, Katarzyna Koc, Halina Ekiert, Eliza Blicharska, Katarzyna Czarnek, and Agnieszka Szopa are researchers in pharmaceutical botany at the University of Lubin and Krakow in Poland.
Sara Vitalini, Stefania Garzoli, Francesca Sisto, Raffaele Pezzani, Maria Pia Argentieri, Alessio Scarafoni, Salvatore Ciappellano, Maira Zorzan, Jessica Capraro, Daniela Collazuol and Marcello Iriti are researchers in ethnopharmacology in Italy.
Ivica Dimkić, Marija Petrović, Milan Gavrilović, Uroš Gašić, Petar Ristivojević, Slaviša Stanković and Peđa Janaćković are researchers in biology and phytobiology in Belgrade, Serbia.
Dr. Pauline Chalet obtained her Doctor of Pharmacy degree by defending her thesis publicly in September 2016. She currently works as a pharmacist in a pharmacy in France.
Dr. César Compadre, Dr. Eugène Robbins, and Dr. Douglas Kinghorn are researchers in chemistry and pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
Dr. Pascual, Dr. Slowing, Dr. Carretero, Dr. Sánchez Mata and Dr. Villar are researchers in chemistry and pharmacology in Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Akter and Dr. Rahmatullah are pharmacology researchers in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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