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Anne McIntyre has been in clinical practice working as a medical herbalist for over 40 years, having also trained as a remedial masseuse, aromatherapist, homeopath and counsellor. Anne runs her busy practice from Artemis House in the Cotswolds and for over 30 years she has incorporated Ayurvedic philosophy and medicine into her clinical practice, producing a unique integrated approach to the care of patients and prescription of herbs.

Anne is the author of many books on herbal medicine and Ayurveda including Healing with Flowers, The Complete Woman’s Herbal, Healing Drinks, Herbal Medicine for Children: Western and Ayurvedic Perspectives, The Complete Herbal Tutor, The Ayurveda Bible and Dispensing with Tradition: A Guide to using Indian and Western Herbs the Ayurvedic Way.

Anne’s home at Artemis House in the rural Cotswolds is the site of a beautiful spiral herb garden which she uses for tours and teaching – and which has been featured on BBC’s Gardener’s World! Throughout this website there are many pictures of the medicinal plants she grows there. Alongside her busy practice she lectures widely on herbal medicine and Ayurveda in the UK, Europe and America and runs in person courses from Artemis House, as well as conducting regular herb walks of her garden and the countryside around her home.

Anne is a Fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, a Member of the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy, and a Member of the Ayurvedic Professionals Association.

Clinics

Anne holds clinics every week she is in the country, treating patients with her personal blend of Western Herbal Medicine and Ayurveda. Click here for more info…

Shop

Buy Anne’s books and ebooks from our online shop, along with hand-made teas and creams from herbs grown in Anne’s garden. Click here for more info…

Courses

Enhance your knowledge of herbal medicine and Ayurveda with online courses, annual apprenticeships, day courses and workshops. Click here for more info…

Latest News

Opportunity – Garden Volunteers Needed!
The garden at Artemis House is enormously important to my clinic, patients and students – and to me! It is… Read more: Opportunity – Garden Volunteers Needed!
Burdock – Arctium lappa
Burdock is a handsome biennial plant with large rhubarb-like leaves, found growing wild in waste places and on roadsides. It… Read more: Burdock – Arctium lappa
Dandelion – Taraxacum officinale
This familiar wildflower is a member of the Asteracea/Compositeae family. With its cheerful yellow flower and remarkable resilience, dandelion has… Read more: Dandelion – Taraxacum officinale
Mastering Herbal Medicine Course in Borgo Santo Pietro, Italy
I am absolutely delighted – and very, very excited – to tell you that this year I am teaching ‘Mastering… Read more: Mastering Herbal Medicine Course in Borgo Santo Pietro, Italy
Balancing vata
Vata, composed of the elements air and ether, is the most mobile dosha in the body as well as being… Read more: Balancing vata
Ashwagandha – Withania somnifera – Indian Ginseng
Ashwagandha is one of the most highly regarded Ayurvedic herbs and one I have loved to use for many years.… Read more: Ashwagandha – Withania somnifera – Indian Ginseng

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What a difference some sun makes!!

What a difference some sun makes!!

We have just released the spaces for the 2025 Ayur

We have just released the spaces for the 2025 Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation year!

We have 15 places available to study with Anne, for more information and to book please click on the link in our bio ⬆️

Who’s going to be in the class of 2025?

We all know that mental and emotional health are a

We all know that mental and emotional health are as important as physical health - but how do we keep our resilience in times of upheaval, or in the face of frustrations of situations out of our control?

On 15th May we are running a workshop at Artemis House to help you with exactly this, an introduction to managing mental and emotional imbalances through medicinal herbs, adaptations to diet and lifestyle changes.

If you’d like to find out more click on the link in bio which will take you to the courses page of the website.

#emotionalresilience #herbsforhealing #stressreduction

If you are interested in how your gut health can i

If you are interested in how your gut health can impact how you feel, and you like the idea of including more herbs in your diet, you may like to know that on 14th May we are holding another Herbs for Gut Health workshop here at Artemis House when we will be looking at factors affecting our digestive health and what steps we can take to improve it, focussing particularly on the role medicinal herbs can play in supporting gut health. We will talk about simple diet and lifestyle changes, common dietary requirements and how to embrace diversity in your diet. We will discuss – and eat! – recipes made with well known culinary herbs and spices which will enhance and support your digestion.

We will also take a look at theories around gut bacteria and the roles of prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics in maintaining good gut flora diversity, including what part fermented foods play in our diet and how to include them in a healthy lifestyle.

Every day course and workshop here at Artemis House includes a seasonal plant based lunch - this spread was part of the lunch for the Ayurvedic Apprenticeship students. Hopefully you can see that including herbs in your diet every day not only benefits your gut and overall health, but it’s delicious too!

The dishes shown here include:
- roast beetroot, coconut yoghurt and fresh dill
- homemade hummus with tahini, lemon, garlic and cumin
- wild garlic, parsley, coriander, basil and walnut pesto
- grated ginger, lemon and lime
- chopped coriander leaf
- buckwheat banana muffins with pecans, blueberries and cardamom

- not seen are coconut and red lentil dal with garam masala, turmeric and cardamom, and greens in garlic oil

To find out more about any of the Artemis House courses click on the link in bio ⬆️

It’s been wonderful to welcome students back to

It’s been wonderful to welcome students back to Artemis House over the last few days!

The teaching space is looking beautiful and so inviting whatever the weather, and having had a little sun the herb garden is growing at an astonishing rate!

This week we are welcoming the second year Ayurvedic Apprentices for their first workshop of the year, then at the end of the month we have our first year Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation students visiting us for the first time. In May we will see How to be a Home Herbaliat students for their first practical sessions, as well as the first of the popular one day courses with Herbs to support Gut Health and Herbs for Mental and Emotional Resilience.

If you would like to find out more about any of these course, click on the link in bio above ⬆️

You may have noticed how many photos there are of

You may have noticed how many photos there are of me sniffing plants on my grid - it’s not a coincidence, it’s actually a key way I engage with the healing plants I meet! I strongly believe that to be able to use herbs to their fullest extent we need to get to know them through all of our senses, preferably meeting them as a whole plant where they grow rather than only experiencing them as a dry powder and an accompanying list of chemical compounds.

If you are interested in finding out more about how your senses can help to identify the correct herb to use, or what the six tastes can tell us about the properties of a specific herb, do take a look at the courses on my website
(Link in bio ⬆️). We have a couple of spaces on both How to be a Home Herbalist and the second year Ayurvedic Apprenticeship and I’ll be accepting students up until the end of this month. Hope to see you soon!

#herbalmedicine #ayurveda #naturalhealing #shortcourses #herbgarden

From Morocco to Portugal, beautiful red tiled roof

From Morocco to Portugal, beautiful red tiled roofs, groves of lemon and olive trees, majestic scenery - and time happily spent with wonderful friends!

The edited highlights of my trip to Morocco – look

The edited highlights of my trip to Morocco - look at that blue sky!!

We’ve just sent out the March newsletter to ever

We’ve just sent out the March newsletter to everyone subscribed to our mailing list. If you’d like a copy to appear in your inbox, you can sign up on my website.

As you can see from these pictures,spring is starting to creep in to my garden, but it’s not time to leave winter behind quite yet. It is still too cold and wet to start a traditional spring detox, we need to be patient for a little while longer. When it is warmer, you can use seasonal herbs such as nettles, Galium, chickweed and wild garlic - to find out more about them you can take a look at the blogposts on my website.

I got back this weekend after a couple of weeks aw

I got back this weekend after a couple of weeks away, first to Morocco and then on to Portugal. Seeing glorious blue skies and feeling the sun on my face has given me just the boost I need at this time of year! I’m going to go through my camera reel and post some edited highlights, but first I am teaching Zoom classes @arborvitae_ny and seeing patients in the clinic.

Hope it’s sunny where you are! Spring is coming!

We have a couple of spaces available on Anne’s A

We have a couple of spaces available on Anne’s Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Further Studies, a practical course of four workshops here at Artemis House, starting in April.

This course is for students with a good grounding in Ayurveda who would like to develop their knowledge further.

We will be covering:

Workshop 1:
Understanding the role of herbs in Ayurveda; The Ayurvedic approach to the classification of herbs; Preparing and administering herbs; Traditional Ayurvedic formulae
A Guide to Ayurvedic Detoxification
Monographs of Herbs for Detoxification

Workshop 2:
Ayurvedic Concept of Immunity
How to Make Shatavari Ghee
Monographs of Herbs for Immunity

Workshop 3:
Ayurvedic Approach to the Nervous System
Problems Affecting the Manovahasrotas
Rasayanas for the Nervous System; How to make Chayanwaprash
Monographs of Herbs for the Nervous System

Workshop 4:
Ayurvedic Approach to Inflammation
Monographs of Herbs for Inflammation

You can find out more from the Courses page on the website (link in bio), or by email admin@annemcintyre.com

How to be a Home Herbalist 2024 More info in bio

How to be a Home Herbalist 2024

More info in bio

This weather calls for something warming and delic

This weather calls for something warming and deliciously spicy - and I have just the thing! Harnessing the power of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and black pepper, this drink will keep coughs and colds at bay, and if you are already suffering, will help alleviate the symptoms.

Swipe to see the ingredients and method.

Try it and let me know what you think!

I am so proud of this book and love its beautiful

I am so proud of this book and love its beautiful photos - bringing a little summer to the winter! If you’d like a copy, Aeon have 20% off at the moment, take a look below…

Posted @withregram • @aeonbooks_publishing

Fancy a taste of Summer in the Winter? 🌸🌷

‘Healing with Flowers’ by Anne McIntyre (@_annemcintyre) explores the mythological, historical origins, healing powers and medicine of flowers and is this week’s #FridayRecommendation!

Flowers help us mark every event and ceremony from birth to death and bring us joy and solace throughout the years. They have inspired poets, authors and artists and come to symbolise the whole range of human experience.

From exuberant red peonies and sweet-smelling primroses, to exotic lilies and heavenly-scented roses, flowers have the power to reconnect us with the conscious intelligence of nature that we are a part of and to heal our ailments in a myriad of ways.

🔗 Click the link in our bio to purchase Anne’s book at 20% off this weekend with code HE20!
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#flowers #healing #floralmedicine #nature #health #medicine #ailments #herbalmedicine #herbalist #herbs #historical #mythological

Continuing the love affair with rosemary… I hav

Continuing the love affair with rosemary…

I have just been away to the most beautiful place, nestled between the mountains and the sea and surrounded by wild rosemary. This is a great herb for the season with its liver protecting properties - take it before Christmas lunch! - and I also love it for its memory boosting power too.

Back for 2024 by popular demand! Come to Artemis

Back for 2024 by popular demand!

Come to Artemis House on 14th May 2024 for a day delving into Herbs for Gut Health.

We will be looking at factors affecting digestive health and what steps you can take to improve it, the role medicinal herbs play in supporting gut health, simple diet and lifestyle changes, common dietary requirements and how to embrace diversity in your diet.

We will also make - and eat! - recipes made with well known culinary herbs and spices that enhance and support your digestion, as well as looking at the roles of gut bacteria, prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics, and not to forget fermented foods!

For more info take a look at the link in bio ⬆️

HOW TO BE A HOME HERBALIST Thank you so much for

HOW TO BE A HOME HERBALIST

Thank you so much for your interest in this course! Here is a little more info about what you will learn on it…

The online lessons cover a wealth of topics, including:

- Global herbal traditions such as Western Herbal Medicine, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and many others
- The active constituents of herbs and their tastes, looking at each of the tastes
- The systems of the body and how to treat the most common ailments of the system being studied
- Monographs of herbs, including some to support the systems studied, building to a collection of herbs
- The still room – skills and techniques to prepare herbal medicines
- Practical exercises – this will mostly focus on creating your own herbarium, a collection of plants you have foraged, dried, stored and researched
- Recipes associated with the herbs discussed

Each month students are given access to a new module of information that they can study in their own time, at their own pace. This information is then built on at the practical workshops held here at Artemis House.

If this sounds like something you’d find interesting, check out the link in my bio⬆️

#herbalmedicine #herbalism #cotswolds

Monday morning by the AGA, hard at work in the kit

Monday morning by the AGA, hard at work in the kitchen after a weekend of teaching. Reviewing online course content with brains fuelled by chai!

#herbalmedicine #ayurveda #cotswoldslife #mondaymorning

The dispensary smells a-ma-zing at the moment with

The dispensary smells a-ma-zing at the moment with the dehydrators working 24/7! It’s such a wonderful way to capture seasonal herbs at their freshest and most vibrant.

How would you use these extraordinary plants?

#calendula #redclover #amla #yarrow

Incredible to receive a parcel of Indian gooseberr

Incredible to receive a parcel of Indian gooseberries and bitter gourd - immediately processed to turn into tinctures and dried for powder. What a treat!!

#bittergourd #amalaki #indiangooseberry #homemadetinctures #dispensary #ayurveda #ayurvedicmedicine

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What a difference some sun makes!!

What a difference some sun makes!!

We have just released the spaces for the 2025 Ayur

We have just released the spaces for the 2025 Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation year!

We have 15 places available to study with Anne, for more information and to book please click on the link in our bio ⬆️

Who’s going to be in the class of 2025?

We all know that mental and emotional health are a

We all know that mental and emotional health are as important as physical health - but how do we keep our resilience in times of upheaval, or in the face of frustrations of situations out of our control?

On 15th May we are running a workshop at Artemis House to help you with exactly this, an introduction to managing mental and emotional imbalances through medicinal herbs, adaptations to diet and lifestyle changes.

If you’d like to find out more click on the link in bio which will take you to the courses page of the website.

#emotionalresilience #herbsforhealing #stressreduction

If you are interested in how your gut health can i

If you are interested in how your gut health can impact how you feel, and you like the idea of including more herbs in your diet, you may like to know that on 14th May we are holding another Herbs for Gut Health workshop here at Artemis House when we will be looking at factors affecting our digestive health and what steps we can take to improve it, focussing particularly on the role medicinal herbs can play in supporting gut health. We will talk about simple diet and lifestyle changes, common dietary requirements and how to embrace diversity in your diet. We will discuss – and eat! – recipes made with well known culinary herbs and spices which will enhance and support your digestion.

We will also take a look at theories around gut bacteria and the roles of prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics in maintaining good gut flora diversity, including what part fermented foods play in our diet and how to include them in a healthy lifestyle.

Every day course and workshop here at Artemis House includes a seasonal plant based lunch - this spread was part of the lunch for the Ayurvedic Apprenticeship students. Hopefully you can see that including herbs in your diet every day not only benefits your gut and overall health, but it’s delicious too!

The dishes shown here include:
- roast beetroot, coconut yoghurt and fresh dill
- homemade hummus with tahini, lemon, garlic and cumin
- wild garlic, parsley, coriander, basil and walnut pesto
- grated ginger, lemon and lime
- chopped coriander leaf
- buckwheat banana muffins with pecans, blueberries and cardamom

- not seen are coconut and red lentil dal with garam masala, turmeric and cardamom, and greens in garlic oil

To find out more about any of the Artemis House courses click on the link in bio ⬆️

It’s been wonderful to welcome students back to

It’s been wonderful to welcome students back to Artemis House over the last few days!

The teaching space is looking beautiful and so inviting whatever the weather, and having had a little sun the herb garden is growing at an astonishing rate!

This week we are welcoming the second year Ayurvedic Apprentices for their first workshop of the year, then at the end of the month we have our first year Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation students visiting us for the first time. In May we will see How to be a Home Herbaliat students for their first practical sessions, as well as the first of the popular one day courses with Herbs to support Gut Health and Herbs for Mental and Emotional Resilience.

If you would like to find out more about any of these course, click on the link in bio above ⬆️

You may have noticed how many photos there are of

You may have noticed how many photos there are of me sniffing plants on my grid - it’s not a coincidence, it’s actually a key way I engage with the healing plants I meet! I strongly believe that to be able to use herbs to their fullest extent we need to get to know them through all of our senses, preferably meeting them as a whole plant where they grow rather than only experiencing them as a dry powder and an accompanying list of chemical compounds.

If you are interested in finding out more about how your senses can help to identify the correct herb to use, or what the six tastes can tell us about the properties of a specific herb, do take a look at the courses on my website
(Link in bio ⬆️). We have a couple of spaces on both How to be a Home Herbalist and the second year Ayurvedic Apprenticeship and I’ll be accepting students up until the end of this month. Hope to see you soon!

#herbalmedicine #ayurveda #naturalhealing #shortcourses #herbgarden

From Morocco to Portugal, beautiful red tiled roof

From Morocco to Portugal, beautiful red tiled roofs, groves of lemon and olive trees, majestic scenery - and time happily spent with wonderful friends!

The edited highlights of my trip to Morocco - look

The edited highlights of my trip to Morocco - look at that blue sky!!

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