Guest Speaker: Katherine Bellchambers-Wilson

As always, at the end of our Easter School, we like to give our students a treat and to introduce a bit of extra-curricular material. We do this by inviting a guest speaker for the last day to speak on their speciality. We have had Joe Nasr to wax lyrical about the blossoms he collects from Lebanon and give demonstrations and tasters in a 2-day practical Pharmacy seminar; we have had Stuart FitzSimons describing the habitat, life cycle and healing properties of medicinal mushrooms; and this year we invited Katherine Bellchambers-Wilson [The Nottingham Herbalist] to talk to the school about her speciality which is Infertility.

Katherine spent some time going over the hormones involved, their cycles and how they interplay, and the complex effect they have on the body. Then she took us through some anonymised case histories so the students could see the presenting complaint, follow the treatment plan and hear about the outcome. We also discussed specific herbs in details, and how they can be combined to good effect for various presentations of infertility.

The only complaint that we received about her seminar from the students was, ‘It wasn’t long enough…‘

The day Katherine came to us was also a reunion of sorts, as several of the tutors and staff at the school studied together at the College of Phytotherapy and UEL…

Reunion: Halina Przydatek, Maggie Pope, Sara Hills, Susan Vassar, Katherine Bellchambers-Wilson