HeyJaredGrowing Medicine
Growing Medicine. Medicines that 'grows'. I make it, I use it, I teach it.
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- Oct 9, 2026
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Why your GP doesn't mention herbs… (opens the original)
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If you’ve wanted to mention herbs to your GP for months and you just haven’t, here’s why it feels so hard, and how you could start the conversation.Many of my patients will not mention that they have appointments with me because they think their GP will be angry, negative and dismissive. People assume their GP would feel this way about herbal medicine because they’re hostile to it. But it may be that the issue is simpler and far less personal: they were never trained in it, because why would the…
An almost impossible burden. (opens the original)
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I heard a respected scientist/physician/leading authority on gene variations say that avoiding folic acid supplementation in your food was ‘not complicated’. This annoyed me because it is a typical comment from a well-educated, affluent male who [probably] may not food shop and do his own cooking.This leads me to thinking about families that I know and treat, and what the whole folic acid supplementation scenario is all about.I first mentioned this in January 2026 here; Mandatory Folic Acid Fort…
Saffron could lift your mood (opens the original)
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If you suffer from extreme low moods that teeter on the brink of depression, I might have some useful information for you.There are known pathways in the brain that are implicated in the development of the state of depression. If we know what these ‘triggers’ are, we may be able to head them off before depression takes hold.And while orthodox drugs can be effective for some people in some ways, they are designed to do just one job [like SSRIs inhibit the reuptake of serotonin into neurons after …
I was told off! (opens the original)
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Recently I got a mild rap on my knuckles from a senior herbalist about what I had been teaching students in Herbal Therapeutics. The particular problem seemed to be my approach to Tuberculosis [TB]. The reasoning went thus; TB is such a serious problem that we mustn’t give the students the impression that they can ‘treat’ it, and that the patient can use herbs instead of antibiotics.This is a statement that I more or less agree with.However, my feathers were so ruffled by the criticism of my app…
Stress is not an emotion; (opens the original)
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Although we say that we ‘feel stressed’, we are not really describing an emotion. Rather we are describing an experience; the shifts in our physiology which occur when our bodies are trying to maintain integrity while experiencing a threat. It can be really uncomfortable, and it can also have physical consequences. I think there are three types of stress on our body, and each comes with its own pattern, and each could be approached differently.But for each type of stress our adrenals, nervous sy…
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