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Uprooted Medicine: A Revealing History that Restores Herbs to Patient-led Care
For millennia, plants were humanity’s first and most trusted medicines. Today, herbal medicine is pushed to the margins of mainstream healthcare. How did this happen and what are we left with?
In Uprooted Medicine, physician-herbalist Dr Dilis Clare and researcher Dr Tim Morrissey uncover how the current medical model sidelined the world’s oldest healing tradition. By drawing on both original sources and forgotten archives, they reveal the price we’ve paid in forgotten healing methods, and the personal cost of drug-related harm accompanying recent medical gains.
This is not nostalgia. This is a blueprint for a stronger, more complex medical approach that is based on evidence. It includes herbal medicine as a systematic resource for anyone who expects diverse solutions to the problems they face.
Clear, evidence-based, and hopeful, this book challenges readers to imagine a medicine that heals, collaborates, and restores.
In Uprooted Medicine, physician-herbalist Dr Dilis Clare and researcher Dr Tim Morrissey uncover how the current medical model sidelined the world’s oldest healing tradition. By drawing on both original sources and forgotten archives, they reveal the price we’ve paid in forgotten healing methods, and the personal cost of drug-related harm accompanying recent medical gains.
This is not nostalgia. This is a blueprint for a stronger, more complex medical approach that is based on evidence. It includes herbal medicine as a systematic resource for anyone who expects diverse solutions to the problems they face.
Clear, evidence-based, and hopeful, this book challenges readers to imagine a medicine that heals, collaborates, and restores.
824 pages, Paperback
First published November 7, 2025
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April 8, 2026
Fantastic book. Took over 10 years to write. Over 80% of the world’s population uses herbal medicine in primary healthcare. This book Uprooted Medicine reads like a ‘Who Done It’ as Dr Dilis Clare, famed Medical Herbalist based in Galway, explores how herbal medicine started at the centre of medical practice and was unfairly pushed to the fringes. Over 100 million Europeans use herbal medicine on a daily basis to boost their wellbeing and treat disease and for good reason.
There are less side effects and toxicity to patients livers when they do so and with moderation guided by a skilled professional herbalist. With over 85% of health books now sold on Amazon being generated by AI this book is a most welcome and reliable reference text for all herbalists, people interested in health, herbalism, medicine and most of all libraries. https://www.ecohomme.com/post/uproote...
There are less side effects and toxicity to patients livers when they do so and with moderation guided by a skilled professional herbalist. With over 85% of health books now sold on Amazon being generated by AI this book is a most welcome and reliable reference text for all herbalists, people interested in health, herbalism, medicine and most of all libraries. https://www.ecohomme.com/post/uproote...
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