Alex Laird was a TV producer when she decided that instead of making shows about people, she preferred to work with them. She began her training as a medical herbalist whilst working as an aromatherapist with drug users and those with HIV. All the while she began pondering the idea that would eventually become Living Medicine, a charity she founded with the aims of connecting medical herbalists to their local communities and the establishment of a World Garden, a place for teaching and healing. She has gone on to set up the first herbal clinic in hospital dermatology at Whipps Cross University Hospital where she is a practitioner and teacher to herbal BSc students and she works at The Haven, London's breast cancer support center.

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