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Chris Kilham

Male | 57 years old | MA | Last updated 2/ 4/2009 12:00 pm

Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author and educator. The founder of Medicine Hunter Inc., Chris has conducted medicinal research in over 20 countries including India, China, Siberia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Vanuatu South Pacific, Lebanon, Syria, Ghana, Austria, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Morocco, South Africa and the US.

"My job is to accomplish three things: to deliver healing benefits to the market, to help preserve the natural environment by keeping areas agriculturally based and, to enhance living conditions for indigenous people." Chris Kilham.

Chris is Explorer in Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he teaches the popular ethnobotany course, The Shaman’s Pharmacy™, through the department of Plant & Soil Sciences. Chris also conducts botanical educational programs for the natural products trade.

Chris is the author of fourteen books, including Hot Plants, The Five Tibetans, Psyche Delicacies, Tales from the Medicine Trail and Kava, Medicine Hunting in Paradise. Chris also writes articles on plant medicines for several publications.

Chris lectures extensively on holistic health and botanical medicines, throughout the United States and the European Union, Hong Kong, Thailand, Dubai, Australia, Peru, Vanuatu and many other countries.

Chris has appeared as a guest expert on over several hundred radio and television programs including news programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, BBC and NPR. As a guest he has spoken about medicine hunting, traditional botanical medicines, nutraceuticals, environmental and cultural preservation and other related topics for a wide variety of audiences. Chris has appeared on over 1500 radio programs and more than 500 TV programs worldwide. He is a regular guest with America’s Doctor™, Dr. Mehmet Oz on Oprah & Friends.

Since October 2007 Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham has been featured in Psychology Today, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, CNBC's Power Lunch, HD Net's World Report, Prevention Magazine, Natural Health Magazine, Oprah & Friends, ABC 20/20, NBC Nightly News, PBS Healing Quest, Fox News, Better TV, Good Morning America, and most recently Ode Magazine (in order of appearance.)

Chris conducts medicinal plant research for Naturex, one of the largest botanical extraction companies in the world and is an advisory board member of the Naturex Foundation, which funds community development projects in various countries. Chris is also Medicine Hunter and spokesperson for Kiiera, a high quality network marketing company, and he is co-creator of VIV™, an adaptogen-based transformational beverage.

An avid body surfer and adventure traveler, Chris lives and works in Massachusetts with his wife Zoe Helene and their dog Boo. Chris and Zoe travel the globe on Medicine Hunter expeditions, and work together to promote plant medicines, environmental protection and cultural preservation.

CNN calls Chris “The Indiana Jones of natural medicine.”

For more information, please visit www.medicinehunter.com

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MY JOURNAL:
Thursday, 2/ 5/2009 at 9:21 am

San Diego Musings

A cool sun slowly burns the haze in the early San Diego morning. The road, like the dharma, goes out in all directions, this time leading me to the west coast for a series of lectures, presentations and meetings. This is the other side of the medicine trail. The 103 year old shaman Maria Sena, back in the Brazilian Amazon, told me "You bridge the worlds." She described how I move back and forth from one culture to the next, one scene to another, engendering further understanding among people. Moving in this way makes me an ambassador of sorts, sharing the story of foreign people, high-value medicines, and the path of health. On this peripatetic romp across the US, I am sharing ideas about healing plants, specifically VIV, the herbal beverage I have helped to co-develop, which is based on adaptogenic herbs from northern Asia.

It's always something. Tomorrow I will also meet with a group in LA who are interested in producing a film about this work. You never know who is going to emerge to help move things along. We are all inter-connected, and the way we move ideas and projects forward integrates a broad range of people, all of whom are acting to further various aims. The Austrian philosopher Goethe said that when you commit yourself to a course of action, then all manner of forces, seen and unseen, rise up to assist you. I believe that, and see this type of intention-driven activity every day.

So this work, on the road reaching out to people, helps to fulfill the work of being in foreign countries, working in the filed, kneeling on some hillside someplace in far western China, or standing on a lonely pass in Siberia, or trooping through the forest as I did last week in the Peruvian Chanchamayo. This part of the work breathes life into that fire, turns the field work into something more dynamic, gives people new options for their health, helps to engender at least a tiny bit of improved human understanding.

Over the course of time in this journal, I will share with you thoughts and ideas about working in this world, about being a human being, about the real potentials of health, about giving more than we take, about a higher way. So many people are aiming high now, even as societies stagger and collapse under the groaning weight of colossal ignorance, greed and dishonestly. Still, good people everywhere try to move goodness forward. This is a parade worth joining, a banner worth flying. We must proceed as though what we are doing makes a positive difference.



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