Mel Hornby

Mel Hornby qualified as a Medical Herbalist after completing a 5-year degree in Herbal Medicine in 2007. As a little girl, she would gather flowers and plants from the garden and attempt to make them into medicines using a homemade pestle and mortar (a bowl and dolly-peg!) then try to administer them to her unwilling family.

Because she would have loved to have been taught which plants were safe to use, their healing properties and also how to make ‘real’ plant medicines, Mel established and has taught the Junior Herbalist Club (JHC) program since 2013, which is now proudly supported by the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. As well as running a busy clinic in Lancashire, Mel still regularly teaches the JHC program, the JHC leader training course and herbal workshops for adults.