Iain Maclean Herbalist

08/12/2025

Around the time of the Wright brothers and their accepts at flying, a university professor in physics said publicly that flying was impossible, we know this was wrong. Another physicist associated with the famous X Club said publicly that medicine could not become scientific unless it adopted the germ theory of disease. Science can at times become scientism, a belief system promoted by ego driven behaviour. Science should always be questioned, dogma should play no part.

03/12/2025

“If an element of “design” enters into organic evolution the factors controlling this principle remain to be discovered.”
Ivan Wallin

The twentieth-century revolution in cosmology threw science into a slow-moving crisis that is still unfolding.

03/12/2025

The Enzyme Theory of Antibody Formation by Paul Erhlich

“I believe there is hardly an element of truth in a single one of the dozen or more basic hypotheses incorporated in this theory” and noted “the almost universal failure of therapeutic methods based on these concepts.”

Professor W.H. Manwarring, Stanford

Ludwick Fleck was also a vehement critic of Erhlich’s side chain theory, and yet here we are in 2025

02/12/2025

What is the Endocannabinoid system (ECS) in humans?

Cannabinoids both endogenous and exogenous interact with receptors already present in the human body. The receptors are CB1 (brain and nervous system)and CB2 (immune system and peripheral tissues).

Body made or endogenous cannabinoids include Anandamide and 2-AG (2-arachidonolglycerol). Plant cannabinoids mimic or modulate these natural signaling molecules. CB1 receptors are concentrated in the hippocampus (memory), basal ganglia (movement), cortex (thinking), cerebellum (co-ordination), amygdala (emotion and fear).

The cannabis genus and its main species, indica and sativa have a rich mix of natural compounds, mainly cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids which are produced in the plant’s resin glands called trichomes.

The cannabinoids include
THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) the main psychoactive compound, binds strongly to CB1 receptors in the brain, responsible for euphoria, altered perception, appetite stimulation
CBD (cannabidiol) non-psychoactive, modulates CB1/CB2 receptors indirectly, can reduce inflammation, anxiety and counteract some THC effects,
Also contains CBN, CBG, CBC

Terpenes are the aromatic molecules that contribute to scent, taste and effects. These include myrcene, limonene, pinene, linalool and caryophyllene.

Flavonoids such as cannaflavins can be anti-inflammatory and MAST cell stabilisers.

Human use of cannabis goes back thousands of years. Its popularity has never waned and now we see in many countries around the world the decriminalisation and legalisation as a medicine in many different forms. Talk to allopathic medical practitioner is to see if it could be helpful for you. At this stage in Australia professional herbalists are unable to prescribe any cannabis product. H**p products are not the same as medicinal cannabis.

28/11/2025

I can’t see the rationalists ever accepting any empiric thought, it’s just not in their vocabulary or minds, and empiric thinkers like myself can’t see the general public moving in appreciable numbers to the empiric side, it takes thinking and most are not interested. Go back and read Brave New World by Huxley to get an understanding.

Restoring trust in medicine requires a return to principles: seeing without filtering evidence through institutional preferences.

26/11/2025

Far too little time and attention is devoted to the study of the individual, and the sick man is often forgotten in the study of his disease. For the proper understanding of disease and its treatment there must be a thorough knowledge of the patient’s personality and of his environment, using the latter word in the widest sense of the term.
British Medical Journal, 1934

25/11/2025

Nettle, what is it good for, spring allergies, full of flavonoids to calm the MAST cells that release histamine that cause those unpleasant symptoms of spring time. Nature has the answers if only we look and appreciate what it has supplied.

22/11/2025

Symbiogenesis

“We are forced to the conclusion that new genes must be acquired in organic evolution. It is logical to assume that there have been ever-increasing additions to organisms during organic evolution. These additions must have come from the “outside” and represent true accretions which are responsible for the origin of species.”
Ivan Wallin

20/11/2025

Hahnemann observed a universal biological truth:
a disease can be cured by a medicine capable of producing a similar pattern of symptoms in the healthy.

This principle — Similia Similibus Curentur — is not a theory but a repeatable, clinical observation:

Fever relieved by remedies that produce heat

Anxiety cured by substances that create restlessness

Skin eruptions healed by agents causing similar rashes

Nature responds to similarity with resonance, and resonance activates the body’s own healing force.

This is why the law of similars remains the central scientific law of Homoeopathy.

16/11/2025

Rationalist thought:
“There is no essential difference between the structural chemistry of life and that of inanimate nature.”
Fielding H.Garrison, 1922

If you then go on to read Erwin Schrödinger, the physicist and his lectures from the 1940’s you may have a different view from Garrison’s.

As Schrödinger said, life is negentropic.

14/11/2025

H.C. Allen MD (pictured here) - sharing his experiences with Adolph LIppe MD...

“Here is one of the most important topics for all of us; the repetition of the remedy. I think that, as a rule, we make more mistakes in this than in any other part of the practical art of curing. We frequently fail by a too frequent repetition of the dose. To know when to repeat and how to repeat requires a master in the art.

Dr. Lippe once made a statement in my hearing that I thought the most audacious I had ever heard. He said that if he could visit a case of diphtheria the first time, before anybody had had a chance to spoil it, and make the first prescription, he would generally cure the case with one remedy and often with one dose. I went to Philadelphia and stayed there a month to see Dr. Lippe do it. At that time, I was giving two, three or four remedies at a time or in alternation. I saw Dr. Lippe clear up serious cases of illness over and over again in pneumonia, bronchitis, and so on, with a single prescription. Not always, but often.

The secret is first to find the remedy and then to know when to repeat and when to refrain from repeating. It is in this that skill is manifested; this is the work that marks the difference between the artist and the bungler.”

Source: H. C. Allen. Discussion. Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association 1901: 43-44.

Important observation by Dr. Andre Saine:
"It is very important to note that for Lippe as well as for Hahnemann, one dose often was considered to be that a pellet was dissolved in half a glass of water and a teaspoonful was taken at certain intervals until the manifestation of a clear improvement. It was called the “broken dose.”