NIMH 150th Anniversary

by Danny O'Rawe | Feb 27, 2014 | General, News And Events By Others

The 150th Anniversary of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists took place in November with an international conference at Nottingham. The IRH received an invite from NIMH and one of our members attended. The conference featured an impressive line-up of speakers...

HerbFeast 2014

by Danny O'Rawe | Jan 27, 2014 | General, Organised by the IRH

The third annual HerbFeast event took place at St Anne’s Park in Dublin in August. The event organised by The Community of Irish Herbalists, is a celebration of herbs and herbal medicine. The IRH gave herbalists and students a quick sneak preview of the Physic...

Nikki Darrell on NearFM

by Danny O'Rawe | Dec 27, 2013 | General

Medical Herbalist and IRH consultant Nikki Darrell was featured recently on NearFm talking about foraging plants and wild foods. You can hear a podcast of the very interesting  discussion which developed here. Nikki also runs Veriditas Hibernica which envisions a...

IRH Member Interviewed on Lithuanian TV with Health Minister

by Danny O'Rawe | Nov 27, 2013 | General

IRH member Vilma Matuleviciute was asked to participate in the Lithuanian TV program on current affairs, where the Lithuanian Minister of Health, V.P. Andriukaitis, was answering journalist’s questions regarding regulation of CAM sector. Vilma was asked...

IRH Physic Garden Update

by Danny O'Rawe | Oct 27, 2013 | General, News And Events By Others

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...

Iona Herbal Videos

by Danny O'Rawe | Jun 27, 2013 | General, News And Events By Others

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.