Medical-botanical & historical expertise

Consultancy for food / medicine development, projects, films, writers and researchers on the following subjects:

  • Coca (Erythroxylum spp.) and cocaine

  • Cinchona, quinine and malaria

  • The history of the Gin & Tonic

  • The history of medicine

  • Medicinal botany / botanical medicine

Using experience gained in practical remedy-making and research across a wide range of historical contexts, I can provide:

  • Botanical plant materials

  • Fact sheets

  • Historical remedies & props for film-makers, prop makers & suppliers.

Film & TV Consultancy

I consult on films that require consultancy, advice and prop supply of botanically and historically accurate plants and plant medicines.

TV Appearances

BBC Country file ‘Spring Special’ 28 April 2019 and June 2023 subject: foraging and herbal medicine

ARTE TV ‘Invitation au Voyage’ due September 2019, subject: the history of gin and tonic