The shop provides a wide range of herbal medicines, vits & supplements, herbal skincare & a herbal dispensary. Next door is Napiers Clinic.
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25/08/2022
Audrey Marchbank is a Medical Herbalist, graduating in 2007 with a BSc (Hons) in Herbal Medicine & Phytotherapy from Edinburgh’s Napier University and is a registered member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (MNIMH). She has a long career in local government (MSc in Public Service Leadership) but her passion has always been Herbal Medicine, plants and nature, assisting people with their health and wellbeing in a natural holistic way.
24/08/2022
Shona Hamilton has worked at Napiers Clinic for 20 years where she has picked up a wealth of knowledge about various complementary therapies. She trained as a Food Sensitivity tester with The Health Partnership Company, where she was taught how to use the 3 point marker system.
08/08/2022
Mary Gibson trained in Edinburgh, and has been working as a complementary therapist since 1999, holding diplomas in Clinical Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Therapeutic Massage and Hopi Ear Candling gained from the International Therapy Examinations Council (ITEC). She is a member of, and is fully insured to practice with, the Complementary Therapists Association (CThA).
08/08/2022
Nigel Fawthrop is passionate about helping you feel better, have more energy, and increase your capacity for life's challenges (physical, mental, immunological etc.). He seeks to address your current health challenges in a sustainable way, creating the foundation for long-term benefits. He believes that there is an inextricable link between mind and body, and he brings a holistic/integrative approach to this through nutritional therapy.
08/08/2022
Phlebotomist Siobhan Rodgers has a wealth of experience from her background and work, with several years of phlebotomy experience gained within the NHS, private practices & doctor surgeries.
05/08/2022
Cat Rush began her training in massage therapy in 2010 with an ITEC accredited qualification in Holistic Massage. This diploma combined traditional Swedish massage techniques with the principles of mindfulness and meditation to create an excellent grounding in client care and body work.
05/08/2022
Lynn Bennett has been a practitioner at Napiers for over fifteen years and has a significant client base. She is a registered osteopath and has been practicing osteopathy for nineteen years. She studied osteopathy and cranial sacral therapy at the European School of Osteopathy and graduated in 1991. Lynn has a background in physiotherapy and is trained in structural, craniosacral, fuctional, fascial and visceral osteopathy.
05/08/2022
As your counsellor John Kennedy will offer understanding, acceptance and support wherever you are at and, whilst not offering advice or solutions, he will support you in finding your voice and your own way forward. John aims to create a warm welcoming space within which you can bring everything you want and need to talk about, especially the things you struggle with or that have not felt heard elsewhere.
03/08/2022
Kirstin Bruges is a fully qualified member of the Society of Homeopaths and holds an RSHom distinction in Classical Homeopathy. Kirstin qualified in 2019 from the Northwest College of Homeopathy's four-year training course in Manchester.
She treats a wide variety of conditions, but has a special interest in autoimmune diseases, gynaecological issues, and the treatment of anxiety and mental health conditions.
03/08/2022
Wendy Kelly qualified in 2002 with a BSc(Hons) in Phytotherapy. Since then she has practiced in Fife, Angus and the Lothians. She is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists.
She began her interest in herbal medicine in her early twenties when a persistent health problem just wasn't going away with conventional medicine. She walked into Napiers in Edinburgh to ask for help and was given a bottle of blended herbs to take - and never looked back!
03/08/2022
Jill McLaggan is a fully qualified and insured Advanced Clinical Massage Therapist offering Outcome Based Treatments, the aim of which is to reduce the patient’s pain and increase their range of movement, thereby improving their quality of life.
01/08/2022
Bettina Horvarth is a fully qualified aesthetician who is skilled in an impressive number of beauty and holistic treatments. As well as undergoing our own expert training in Dr Hauschka, Eminence and Guinot facials, Bettina is trained in and includes Swedish massage, Indian Head massage, No Hands massage, Chakra Balance massage and Reiki Energy Healing alongside waxing, tinting, manicures and pedicures in her portfolio of treatments.
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Herbal Medicine is in my blood. As a child growing up on an organic small holding in 1970s Wales, I easily fell into the rhythm of the seasons.
My parents, latecomers to the back to the land movement, decided that a few acres and self-sufficiency was the key to a good life. The dream might have been hard work, but it was paradise for a child and I watched, entranced, as cough syrups were made alongside our own attempts at butter and cheese making. When my father visited a local herbalist to find a cure for his ulcer I was, as usual, glued to his side, watching everything that was going on. The resulting foul tasting mix of herbs, as well as some wise dietary advice, literally changed his life.
These early years had a lasting impact. Some years later, having already done a degree in Social Sciences, I found myself back at school again, this time studying Herbal Medicine at the Collage of Phytotherapy in Tunbridge Wells. My sister was also passionate about plants and had already decided to become a herbalist and I was following in her footsteps.
Once qualified my sister ended up taking her herbal skills to Canada, via a brief spell in Glasgow, and I was honoured when Jan de Vries asked me to take over the Herbal practice at Napiers in Edinburgh.
The Napier Years
Duncan Napier was an eminent Victorian herbalist and botanist. Born in Edinburgh, he was orphaned at an early age and brought up by the local innkeeper. A baker to trade, he developed a chronic cough from exposure to the flour dust and decided to take matters into his own hands in his search for a remedy. After coming across a book on herbal medicine at a local market stall on Nicolson St, he experimented with the herbal recipes it contained and made a Lobelia Cough Syrup. He vomited each time he took the mixture, but as his wife pointed out, after a few months he was cured. Lobelia is an emetic, and he had got the dose wrong, but the herbs had worked.
Duncan started to make other herbal medicines, trying them out on his friends and family, collecting herbs and plants from Edinburgh and the Borders. He became a member of the Edinburgh Botanical Society and, encouraged by his contemporaries, opened his first herbal shop on Bristo Place, Edinburgh on the 25th of May 1860.
The first shop was not the present premises of Napiers. After 14 years of growing the practice and a growing demand for herbs, it was necessary to find a much bigger space, and in 1874 Duncan moved along the street to the current corner site at 18 Bristo Place.
The shop and clinic at Bristo Place remains open to this day and is now Scotland's oldest remaining herbal house. In the course of time, his sons went into the business with him and it became D. Napier and Sons.