UCL Spices Panel

UCL Spices Event

It was super to attend the UCL annual Spices and Medicine Symposium on June 3rd, and to be invited to be on the panel. I’ve attended the event many times over the years and it brings together experts in the field interested in ethnobotany, pharmacology, and this year there was more of a focus on …

Weleda Viv

Weleda NCIM Integrative Healthcare Festival

I was excited to speak at the Weleda-NCIM festival on Friday 18th July. I did a joint session with Dr Elizabeth Thompson who spoke about the clinical benefits of the Arnica flower (Arnica montana), a beautiful yellow plant in the daisy family. I gave an update on Arnica clinical research having reviewed around 50 randomised …

Viv at IPM 2025

Integrative Personalised Medicine Congress

What an incredible event and incredible community at this years IPM Congress. Full of such knowledgable doctors, practitioners, companies – who are all greatly informed by research and their own professional practice. The congress is all about being holistic – thinking about the whole person – whether promoting health and wellbeing or dealing with disease. …