Top online herbal resources

• Herbal Reality – traditional, scientific and practical insights
• Henriette’s Herbal – one of the oldest and largest herbal medicine sites on the net since 1995; run by Henriette Kress, a herbalist in Helsinki

Book sources

• A Modern Herbal – Mrs Grieve’s classic online
• Aeon Health – publisher of titles with a focus on herbalism and innovative health techniques
• World Herb Library – books and writings on herbs from all over the world

Education resources

UK accredited herbal medicine courses

• Betonica School of Herbal Medicine
• Heartwood Education
• Lincoln College

Other online education resources

• Botanical Medicine Herbal Education  
• Commonwealth Holistic Herbalism
• Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism
• Mills & Bone Academy

Food & nutrition

• DASH diet handout
• DHA/EPA Omega-3 Institute 
• Eatwell guide – policy tool used to define UK government recommendations on eating healthily and achieving a balanced diet
• Family meal project
• FODMAP Diet 
• Glycaemic index load chart
• Healthy eating handouts
• Life-stage nutrition
• Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University  – detailed resource on vitamins and minerals
• Mayo Clinic Mediterranean Diet  
• Mediterranean Diet 
• Pesticide Action Network UK – information on sources of pesticide poisoning
• Portion sizes – advice from the Association of UK Dieticians
• The Nutrition Source – Harvard School of Public Health 

Herbal making/ recipes

• Handmade Apothecary
• Mountain Rose Herbs

Professional organisations

• Association of Master Herbalists (AMA)
• British Herbal Medicine Association (BHMA)
• European Herbal & Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association (EHTPA)
• European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP)
• National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH)
• The College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy (CPP)

Reference resources & calculators

• Anticholinergic burden calculator – work out the combined burden of prescribed anticholinergic drugs
• Diabetes UK
• Diabetes.co.uk
• Drugwatch
• Efficasafe Herb-Drug-Supplement Platform (subscription required)
• Examine – helps you make sense of nutrition, supplements, and health research (subscription required)
• Instead of antibiotics
• International prostate symptom score (IPSS) calculator
• Medical dictionary online
• Mental wellbeing tips
• Natural Medicines Database (subscription required)
• Office of Dietary Supplements US based information
• Osteoporosis calculator 
• Patient health – Health information from UK doctors and experts
• Period symptom checker – helpful information, including if you should see a doctor & how to discuss your symptoms
• Phytotherapy desk reference (subscription required)
• Prostate resources
• Self-care toolkit – twelve conditions where we can often do more for ourselves
• The Number Needed to Treat – summaries of evidence-based medicine
• Vitamin D calculator – computes dermal vitamin D production at midday when UV radiation exceeds the required threshold
• Yuka app – health impact discovery from product labels

Suppliers

Herbs & supplements

• Natural Dispensary (my clients receive a discount)
• Baldwins 
• Caley’s Apothecary

Flower essences

• Saskia’s flower essences
• Nelsons

Homeopathy

• Ainsworths
• Helios

Testing services

• Blue Horizon – blood tests
• CNS lab – food sensitivity tests
• Dutch test – hormone metabolite test
• Foodmarble – digestive breath tester that helps you identify food intolerances and improve gut health
• Genova diagnostics – range of tests
• Mineralcheck – hair tissue mineral analysis
• Thriva – blood tests