Welcome to the web-site of Ciara O’ Meara, Medical Herbalist.

This website is intended to provide information about both my practice and the practice of Western Herbal Medicine. In addition to practicing herbal medicine full time for the last 6 years I am also a massage therapist, and a yoga teacher for the last 10 years.

Western Herbal medicine is a patient centred approach to health. The treatment is directed not just at the symptoms of illness, but also at the underlying factors. These may be physical, mental or emotional.

A consultation involves a thorough case-history taking, and may involve taking blood pressure, listening to the lungs or other appropriate examinations.

Medical reports and/or blood test will be interpreted. Medical Herbalists are trained to identify any potential interactions between orthodox (drugs) and herbal medicines and to know when a condition is best referred to a doctor or another therapist.

The choice of herbs is based very much on you the individual. It is therefore not uncommon for prescriptions to vary between individuals presenting with the same condition. This treatment is commonly backed up by appropriate advice on lifestyle, and particularly nutrition.

Herbal medicines have an excellent safety record in trained hands. When individually prescribed and combined by a trained medical herbalist they are more deeply effective than over-the-counter remedies.

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