Currently, global health care is in crisis, the natural environment is undergoing widespread devastation, and indigenous people and their knowledge are disappearing at a rapid rate. What can we do to help? At Medicine Hunter we focus on traditional plant-based medicines and their sustainable trade as a way to contribute to a better world. This work always involves a collaboration of talented people.
About Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author and educator. He has conducted medicinal research in over 40 countries. As the FOX News Medicine Hunter, Chris' TV segments and columns reach across USA and International markets. CNN calls Chris “The Indiana Jones of natural medicine.”
About Zoe Helene
Adventurous husband and wife team Chris and Zoe work and travel extensively together. As sustainability correspondent, Zoe covers women, wildlife, wilderness, cultural preservation, arts and archetypes, and the rights of children—who are the stewards of the future.
Featured Plants
Some medicinal plants simply loom larger than others, and do more for more people. In this section we identify plants that are of especially high health value, and give you more information on those plants and their uses. Think of them as botanical stars in the spotlight.
Fox News
Chris is the Fox News Medicine Hunter and appears online and in USA and international TV markets. This activity puts us in a position to play an influential role in advancing the conversation about medicinal plants, sustainability, and holistic health.
FOX News Column
Chris writes a weekly health column on FOX News Health as the Medicine Hunter. Alternative Health articles promote benefits of plant medicines, and informs readers about traditional use and scientific evidence. The site gets over one million unique visits daily.
The Dr. Oz Show
Chris Kilham is a regular guest on hugely popular The Dr. Oz Show. Appearances enable Chris to inform a large viewing audience about the field of safe, effective plant-based medicines. A champion of complementary medicine, Dr Oz plays a key role in the health care paradigm shift.
Plant Medicines A-Z
This simply organized list offers a plethora of safe, effective plant medicines in alphabetical order. The search function also works.
Mind/Body/Spirit A-Z
Plants organized by health condition. For instance, if you are looking for natural solutions to help with "Pain," or "Sleep," or "Libido," you would find it on this page.
Yoga & Meditation
Chris has been a long-time speaker and presenter on yoga and meditation, at venues across the USA. Tune in, turn on and power up.
SACRED PLANTS
In the world of plants, some are used for sacred and ceremonial purposes, to explore the spirit world. The use of these plants derives from native cultures, whose members have traditionally sought access to the supra-normal through the ingestion of the plants and their preparations.
HOT PLANTS
Natural aphrodisiacs can revitalize sexual performance and pleasure, promote sex drive and endurance, and enhance sex life and satisfaction for both men and women. They're safe, have no side effects, and they work. As a noted expert, Chris is often quoted on the subject.
ADAPOTGENS
An adaptogen is a botanical that greatly improves your body's ability to adapt to stress, whether it's a hectic schedule, heat or cold, noise, high altitudes or any number of other stressors. This elite class of herbs impart strength, energy, stamina, endurance, and improve mental clarity.
AYAHUSACA TEST PILOT'S HANDBOOK
Chris Kilham's latest book, The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook: The Essential Guide to Ayahuasca Journeying, provides a practical guide to ayahuasca use, aiding seekers in making right—and safe—decisions about where to go, who to drink with, and what to expect.
“Finally, a well-researched and well-written book on that most powerful of all Amazonian plants! The best book on ayahuasca since Narby's The Cosmic Serpent.” - Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist and author, Tales Of A Shaman’s Apprentice
Ayahuasca Can Help You Communicate with Plant Spirits, and Heal Your Body and Mind
Drink ayahuasca and you may see yourself being eaten by a crocodile. You may find a miraculous resolution to a crippling sadness. Or, more likely, you’ll land somewhere in between. Regardless, you will definitely throw up. Author and ethnobotanist Chris Kilham says all of these things have happened to him after drinking this psychoactive Amazonian brew.
“If you haven’t heard of ayahuasca, you may soon. While once consumed mainly by natives of the Amazon basin, today, thousands visit Latin American countries every year to imbibe it, with the hopes of seeing profound visions, having religious experiences and—many claim—undergoing immense healing. Ayahuasca now has devoted followers throughout the world.” - Newsweek
Why Cranberries Are the Greatest North American Superfood
Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham and Dr. Oz discuss the anti-inflammatory and anti-aging healing properties of cranberries.
The Quest for What May Be Nature's Most Potent Aphrodisiac
ABC TV Nightline sent reporter Gloria Riviera to Malaysia with Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham to explore the world of Tongkat Ali, a potent natural remedy backed by excellent science. Sometimes known as "nature's Viagra," Tongkat Ali is a powerful adaptogen and sex enhancer. On the trail, Chris and his team journeyed to markets, and to the Malaysian rainforest, to see the world of this remarkable plant.
Massachusetts Native and Professor Chris Kilham is The Medicine Hunter
At 61 years old, many people begin to ease toward retirement and the golf course. Not so for Massachusetts native Chris Kilham. Kilham, who just released a new book, travels the world looking for herbal remedies.
- See more at: http://www.medicinehunter.com/massachusetts-native-and-professor-chris-k...
“Most of the life-saving medicines in the world are in fact plant-derived. For a long time, the media said there isn’t enough science on this. Well, I don’t know. There must be at least a million published scientific papers—is that not enough science? I mean, it’s good enough for the drug companies. Why isn’t it enough for medicinal plants?” - Chris Kilham, Boston Magazine
Most Recent Media
Our Most Recent Media page has mixed pieces on psychedelics, mood-modifiers and energizers, with yet more super fruits, sustainable harvesting, our latest on The Dr OZ Show and many other venues. See also, our latest on FOX News.
Massachusetts Native and Professor Chris Kilham Is ‘The Medicine Hunter’
Boston Magazine, Jamie Ducharme, December 2014
Massachusetts Woman Provides Grants to Try Psychedelic Plant Ayahuasca
Boston Magazine | by Jamie Ducharme, January 2015
Chris Kilham, Author of The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook Entheo Radio | with Hugh T Alkemi, December 2014
Chris Kilham on The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook
Valley Free Radio's As Seen on Radio | with Lee Shuer (Dj leisure), December 2014
Turbulence in The Maca Market
Earth Tribe - Activist News, Earth News | by Chris Kilham, December 2014
The Latest Superfood? Peru’s Maca Root
The Wall Street Journal | By Kris Maher and Robert Kozak, December 2014
Why Cranberries Are the Greatest North American Superfood
The. Dr. Oz Show | with Dr. Memhet Oz and Chris Kilham, November 2014
Der Medicine Hunter
Condé Nast / Gemany's Myself Magazine | by Kristin Rubesamen
Ethnobotanist Chris Kilham: The Ayahuasca Experience
Reset | with Amber Lyon (Podcast)
A Professional Medicine Hunter Reveals The 5 Plants To Boost Your Sex Life
Business Insider | by Graham Flanagan
Stalking the Wild Eleuthero
UMass Amherst Gateway | by Laura Miller
From Morocco with Love, Or Rouge, Yves Saint Laurent
Vanity Fair | by SunHee Grinnell
The Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham
Welt am Sonntag (Germany) | by Lorraine Haist
In the Jungle With Dr. Feelgood
Outside Magazine | by Steve Hendricks
Chris Kilham Scours the Planet for Plants with Medicinal Properties
South China Morning Post | by Jeanette Wang
Fresh on FOX
Visit our Medicine Hunter on Fox News page for links to all of Chris' Fox News TV appearances and articles. Visit Medicine Hunter Fox News Column to find a running list of all of his articles, with direct links to the stories on Fox News at the bottom of each page.
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About Chris Kilham
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author and educator. He has conducted medicinal research in over 40 countries. As the FOX News Medicine Hunter, Chris' TV segments and columns reach across USA and International markets. CNN calls Chris “The Indiana Jones of natural medicine.”
About Zoe Helene
Adventurous husband and wife team Chris and Zoe work and travel extensively together. As sustainability correspondent, Zoe covers women, wildlife, wilderness, cultural preservation, arts and archetypes, and the rights of children—who are the stewards of the future.
Featured Plants
Some medicinal plants simply loom larger than others, and do more for more people. In this section we identify plants that are of especially high health value, and give you more information on those plants and their uses. Think of them as botanical stars in the spotlight.
Fox News
Chris is the Fox News Medicine Hunter and appears online and in USA and international TV markets. This activity puts us in a position to play an influential role in advancing the conversation about medicinal plants, sustainability, and holistic health.
FOX News Column
Chris writes a weekly health column on FOX News Health as the Medicine Hunter. Alternative Health articles promote benefits of plant medicines, and informs readers about traditional use and scientific evidence. The site gets over one million unique visits daily.
The Dr. Oz Show
Chris Kilham is a regular guest on hugely popular The Dr. Oz Show. Appearances enable Chris to inform a large viewing audience about the field of safe, effective plant-based medicines. A champion of complementary medicine, Dr Oz plays a key role in the health care paradigm shift.
Plant Medicines A-Z
This simply organized list offers a plethora of safe, effective plant medicines in alphabetical order. The search function also works.
Mind/Body/Spirit A-Z
Plants organized by health condition. For instance, if you are looking for natural solutions to help with "Pain," or "Sleep," or "Libido," you would find it on this page.
Yoga & Meditation
Chris has been a long-time speaker and presenter on yoga and meditation, at venues across the USA. Tune in, turn on and power up.
SACRED PLANTS
In the world of plants, some are used for sacred and ceremonial purposes, to explore the spirit world. The use of these plants derives from native cultures, whose members have traditionally sought access to the supra-normal through the ingestion of the plants and their preparations.
HOT PLANTS
Natural aphrodisiacs can revitalize sexual performance and pleasure, promote sex drive and endurance, and enhance sex life and satisfaction for both men and women. They're safe, have no side effects, and they work. As a noted expert, Chris is often quoted on the subject.
ADAPOTGENS
An adaptogen is a botanical that greatly improves your body's ability to adapt to stress, whether it's a hectic schedule, heat or cold, noise, high altitudes or any number of other stressors. This elite class of herbs impart strength, energy, stamina, endurance, and improve mental clarity.
