a little tedius (the video runs about an hour), but interesting stuff...historic and modern uses for herbs 'medicinally'.

Hot and Cold: Crucial Aspects of Herbalism
Description: Lecture by Simon Mills on crucial aspects of Herbalism (Phytotherapy), given at Schumacher College in Devon, England in February 2005. Simon Mills is a Cambridge graduate in medical sciences who has been a herbal practitioner since 1977. In 1987 he co-founded and then directed the Centre for Complementary Health Studies at the University of Exeter, the first ever University unit dedicated to studying therapeutic options outside the conventional medical curriculum. He was recently appointed as Nelson/Barcapel Teaching Fellow at the Peninsula Medical School with responsibility for developing the first taught MSc programme in Integrated Healthcare in any medical school in the UK. Since January 1997 he has been Secretary of the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy (ESCOP) which is the major European body working to ensure quality, safety and efficacy for herbal medicinal products. He has written many books and articles, including a modern classic and best-selling textbook with Kerry Bone, The Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy, published by Churchill Livingstone in early 2000.
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