Hannah Sylvester - The District Herbalist

Unfurling your health story. Supporting your flourishing health. Connecting you with nature.

We are all unique. If we have a diagnosis, or have similar symptoms to others that we know, it doesn’t mean that we’re experiencing the same thing, or dealing with it in the same way. As a Medical Herbalist, I hear your unique story, and link in my deep understanding of medicinal plants and the human body, to create bespoke herbal prescriptions to support you along your path to better health.

I specialise in supporting reproductive health, whether that be period health, fertility, perimenopause, menopause and beyond. In addition, I also regularly support clients with skin and musculoskeletal health. Naturally, as our bodies function as a whole, I look at your whole health picture, and approach herbal treatment from a whole-body perspective, tailoring each herbal prescription I hand make to each and every person.

Your path to improving health and quality of life may involve looking deeper at long-term, often complex health issues and working together long-term to resolve the physical, constitutional or emotional patterns that can develop over time. Or, you could be looking to resolve acute or periodic ill-health, where the consultation process and herbal medicines would support the body in repairing itself to provide the relief you are seeking.

We can work together in a number of ways. Online herbal medicine consultations, mean that you can access my services from within the comfort of your own home, regardless of where you live in the UK. Curled up in your favourite chair, with your favourite mug of tea, or your cat or dog by your side, can often be a truly comfortable way to feel able to talk about your health in confidence. If you live in Lincoln, or the surrounding villages, I might also be able to offer you in-person home-visit appointments, where we can meet in your home, and we can talk in as much depth as we would online. Then, as time progresses, it may be possible to take the consultations outside, for walk-and-talk appointments in Lincolnshire, with me walking by your side, and benefitting from the wider aspects of being with nature, and perhaps noting aspects of nature that you resonate with.

Just as nature is flexible and adaptable, the way I work mirrors that, both with consultation style and herbal prescription. Everyone’s needs are different, just as every-body is different. We are all unique.

If you’d like a chat, to discuss how I can help you, please feel welcome to contact me.

Qualifying with a BSc (Hons) first class degree in Herbal Medicine, and in practice since 2010, I have also been a lecturer and course leader for the herbal medicine degre in Lincoln. As an experience nature educator, I regularly take groups of people out into town, cities and the countryside for herb walks, foraging walks, and nature connection experiences and provide talks for groups and organisations. I also produce a podcast called Edge of the Hedge, which is available for listening, wherever you get your podcasts.