#185 Adaptogens, Plant Medicine and Medical Herbalism with Dr Sally Moorcroft
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast I have Dr Sally Moorcroft and we’re talking about Herbal medicine, also called phytotherapy, which refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or flowers for medicinal purposes.
Dr Sally embarked on a medical career almost many years ago but her experience in hospital medicine, coupled with her travels to France and Australia that introduced herbal medicine, led her to complementary therapy which she’s practiced for almost 2 decaded.
Today we talk about a range of things on a subject I’m not terribly familiar with
The history of herbal medicine
The overlap with native america, ayurvedic and traditional chinese medicine
How we extract the products from plants
What adaptogens are and how to use them
Anti-inflammatory herbs
Resources for people interested in medical herbs, how to source quality products and potential drug interactions
And we also workshop some cases like patients with gastritis or high cholesterol and how Dr Sally would approach them
If you’re new to things like slippery elm, marshmallow root, devil’s claw, rhodiola and boswelia (like me!) I think you’ll find this episode useful and I’m certainly going to dive into the resources that Sally recommended!
Dr Sally Moorcroft is an award winning integrative and functional medicine doctor, she has a life long interest and passion in food as medicine and leads a team of doctors, nutritionists and practitioners. She has a BSc (Hons) in Herbal Medicine and is currently completing IFM certification. She has also trained in medical acupuncture, TCM and is passionate about using a personalised, holistic and root cause approach. Her special interest is women's health, especially menopause, perimenopause, endometriosis and PCOS; and the gut microbiome.
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| 0:00.0 | Dr's Kitchen. |
| 0:02.0 | Restorpees, health, lifestyle. |
| 0:05.0 | You know, and that's happened with some herbs in the past, you know, they've become endangered. |
| 0:09.0 | Or, you know, like golden seal, which is amazing herb, you know, it's like a natural antivoresic, |
| 0:17.0 | which is really very effective for infections. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, I've used a lot in sort of, er, infections, chest infections, sore throats, |
| 0:26.0 | and it's very effective, but it's almost endangered and nearly gone in the wild from overharvesting. |
| 0:33.0 | And I don't want that to happen, you know, you don't want to think, oh gosh, you know, |
| 0:37.0 | we're getting so, we're so all loving these herbs so much that, you know, |
| 0:42.0 | that they're actually going to disappear from the wild and that it's not being harvested sustainably. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | To show about food, lifestyle, medicine, and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, |
| 1:07.0 | and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 1:14.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:27.0 | Today on the podcast, I have Dr. Sally Morkroft, and we're talking about herbal medicine, |
| 1:32.0 | also called phrytherapy, which refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, |
| 1:38.0 | these roots, leaves, barks, or flowers for medicinal purposes. Dr. Sally embarked on a medical career, |
| 1:45.0 | almost 20 years ago now, but her experience in hospital medicine coupled with her travels to France |
| 1:53.0 | and Australia introduced her to herbal medicine and led to her complimentary therapy practice, |
| 1:59.0 | which has been in for almost two decades. |
| 2:01.0 | Today, we talk about a range of things. On a subject I'm not terribly familiar with. |
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