About the Author
Jonathan Treasure, MA, MNIMH, MCPP, AHG,is an English medical herbalist currently resident in the town of Ashland, Oregon.
Educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in medical sciences he later graduated from the four year course in herbal medicine at the UK School of Phytotherapy, Sussex, England and was elected a member of the UK National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH); he is also a member of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy (MCPP).
After moving to Oregon from England in 1994 he become a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG). He has published in several journals and is Senior Editor of the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild,as well as a contributor to The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia in pharmacology and therapeutics.
He has taught herbal medicine, pharmacology, and therapeutics as guest faculty at several schools in the US, including Michael Moore's South West School of Botanical Medicine in Arizona, The National College of Phytotherapy in New Mexico, The Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Colorado, The National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon, and Bastyr University Seattle, Washington; he has lectured and at professional level seminars and symposia throughout the US.
A long time advocate of combining herbal medicine and internet technology, he is a co-founder of Herbal Hall, the professional herbalists internet discussion list, and webmaster of The HerbalBookWorm, well known for controversial and critical reviews of important herb books. An auhority on herb-drug interactions, he is co-author of Interactions™ a CD-ROM database of herb-drug and herb-nutrient interactions, and is working on forthcoming textbook (Churchill Livingstone, 2005) on the subject. He has taught on the subject of herb-drug interactions not only to herbal practitioners, but as CME for to pharmacists, naturopathic physicians and allied healthcare professionals. He served on the NIMH Research Commitee for Herb Safety and Quality, researching and issuing advisories on herb safety, interactions and quality issues.
His clinical approach offers a rare combination of western herbalism and modern biomedical science within an integrative framework that includes dietary, nutritional and lifestyle approaches as well as an awareness of the role of spiritual well-being in health, together with a commonsense attitude and a characteristic dose of English humor.
His practice focuses on integrative strategies using nutrition and botanicals, especially for people with cancer. He has trained with the Center for Mind Body Medicine as cancer guide. For those interested in details of how to arrange a private clinical consultation, please refer to the consulting page of this site. (see sidebar menu)
Generally reclusive, he can often be found on a lightweight bicycle around the Oregon countryside, trying to figure out how the common English roadside weeds grew so huge in America.
Jonathan Treasure with Laura Lee in Ashland, Oregon as part of our "On the Road" interview series.
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