Jacqui Calder, Herbal Medicine Hielan Hands, Pitlochry, Perthshire, complementary therapists Heilan hands

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Jacqui Calder, Herbal Medicine

Jacqui Calder

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Jacqui Calder trained through the school of Phytotherapy in Sussex. After four years' study she gained their Diploma in Herbal Medicine (now BSc degree in Herbal Medicine). She has worked in herbalism for eleven years, first in Edinburgh and latterly in her own clinic and dispensary in Byres Road, Glasgow.
After many years of busy clinics and innumerable cases she has retired to the country where she continues to practice on a part time basis whilst enjoying raising her young family, furthering research into herbal medicine's aptitude in treating female complaints, spending more time lecturing, hosting workshops ect. as well as establishing an organic Physic Garden, designed using permaculture design skills, which is used as a teaching tool as well as open to the public as a pleasant place to visit.
The Dispensary is open to visitors and people may call in for advice about simple ailments that do not need a full consultation. Many of the creams, lotions, ointments salves, infusions and compounds the herbalist makes for use in Clinic are available, and its great fun trying testers and enjoying the scents that pervade this busy herbal workshop. If you are unable to visit, a mail order service is available. For more longstanding and serious health problems Jacqui works with patients on a one to one in consultation. A first consultation lasts one hour and a full case history is taken. All disclosure is held in the strictest confidence. At the end of consultation Jacqui summarises her perspective of the specific complaint and will draft a prescription of herbs in tincture of herbal infusion and assign some 'homework' comprising dietary modification, physical exercise perogatives etc. as appropriate to patients capabilities and culture - simply something significant the patient can do for themselves to participate in their return to good health. Follow up consultations are usually scheduled for three to four weeks later when specific improvements are expected, the prescription modified to take account of these and the patient's own process supported.
Although it is not possible to give set guidelines on how long a patient would work with a medical herbalist as a rough guideline one would expect to see some improvment in three to four weeks and signifiant improvement within three months. With her considerable experience it is Jacqui's practice to outline predicted course and duration of improvement when summarising her perspective of the patient's path to ill health at the end of initial consultation.

An income related discount is available for expectant mothers, and new mothers 13 months post delivery, pensioners, students and young people etc.

Herbal medicine at the Dispensary front can be quick remedy for simple ailments - arnica for bruises, lavender for burns etc; but in clinic herbalists usually work with longstanding, deeply held ill health patterns, even if the manifestation of physical symptoms is relatively new. At this time in her career Jacqui asks that prospective patients be willing to commit to a degree of lifestyle and emotional response appraisal that their work togther can be truly transformative and a significant turning point in her patient's life.