Well, believe it or not, my mother is actually a pharmacist, yes, I grew up in a pharmacy counting pills and referring to medications by their active ingredients. I remember going to work with my mom on Saturday mornings and listening to her telling patients which medications were for what, which medications interacted with which and possible side effects they may experience. Back in the day before the pharma world was so commercialised, pharmacists actually had to make up th

It all started with my interest in Homoeopathy (I’ll tell you all about that in my next blog), for those of you that don’t know, the underlying philosophy of this modality of medicine is ‘like cures like’. Over 200 years ago there was a medical doctor, Dr Samuel Hahnemann who felt that medicine at the time was causing more harm than good (bearing in mind that medical practices back then included treatments such as bloodletting which is where patients were bled to rid the body