the scottish school of herbal medicine
Isle of Arran
The popular introductory Herbal Correspondence Course is now run from our herb
farm on the Isle of Arran and is an excellent intro if you are interested in
treating yourself or your family and also for aspiring herbal students who can
use it as an access course for University entrance and to see if the profession
is for them. If you decide to enrol Keith Robertson MSc. F.NIMH will be your
tutor for your assignments and he has over 30 years experience in the field. We
also provide regular practical Herbal Medicine classes on Arran offering herb
walks, plant ID, medicine making, botanical drawing etc and these form part of
our new apprenticeship programme or they can be booked separately. This site
remains an archive for the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine which was founded
in 1992 by Medical Herbalists Maureen and Keith Robertson F.NIMH. It rose to
almost mythical status as the world’s leading School for teaching a holistic
balance of traditional and modern Herbal Medicine and importantly championing an
energetic approach to treatment. The School had a world first with its M.Sc.
programme and many of today's practitioners benefited from its 4 year B.Sc.
programme. Being externally validated rather than being part of the mainstream
University system gave us the autonomy to develop courses with real heart (we
developed ground breaking research methodologies such as Goethean/Contemplative
Science and promoted, for instance, case series research) but in the end, as a
small educational charity, we were competing at the height with 7 other
Universities!! The market was essentially flooded by 3 year courses and when the
recession bit student numbers dropped and we were the 3rd U.K. degree programme
to have to close its doors. Intake for the Massage and Aromatherapy courses also
ceased. Perhaps however, the School had achieved its main objective – to equip
the world with a sizeable number of top graduates who carry traditional and
modern Herbal wisdom within a working energetic framework. Many of them now
teach in Herbal institutions around the world and so the fine tradition of SSHM
carries on. Please see www.nimh.org.uk for further details on professional
training in the U.K.
