About the Academy
Mills and Bone Academy - Decades of Leadership in Innovative Herbal Education
The Mills and Bone Academy is a website for phytotherapy and western herbal medicine, using evidence based, clinical education. Drawing on the knowledge and teachings of Simon Mills and Kerry Bone, phytotherapy leading experts, the academy brings together education, research, articles, publications and events to further learning for western herbal medicine clinicians.

Simon Mills
Simon Mills is a Cambridge medical sciences graduate who has been in regular clinical herbal practice in Exeter since 1977. Since then he has chaired the main herbal organizations in the UK (the British Herbal Medicine Association, National Institute of Medical Herbalists, and the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy) and served on the Government’s Herbal Medicine Advisory Committee...

Kerry Bone
Professor Kerry Bone is an industry leader and innovation driver, directing the research program at MediHerb. As recognition of this role (in conjunction with his research colleagues), MediHerb was awarded the American Botanical Council’s (ABC’s) Varro E. Tyler Award for excellence in Phytomedicinal (Herbal) Research in 2016.
Mills and Bone Get Restless and Worn Down!
Live events - 1st and 15th May 2025 (10 am UK time, 7pm Queensland time)
SAVE THE DATES! - Prebooking now open
Join us for our next exciting adventure, when Kerry and Simon will offer further herbal options for some of the most vexing problems of the age. This time they will look at herbal strategies that might help cope with living in a mad world!
As usual there will be two webinars in this series. In the first on May 1st, Kerry will look at the neuroinflammatory and neurotrophic factors implicated in depression and possible plant-based strategies to reduce these. Simon will open the first of a two-part review of the metabolic angles on mental health, with a look at a range of linked metabolic, hormonal and gut related insights into anxiety and depression and realistic herbal angles on each.
In the second webinar on May 15th Kerry will delve into the connection between sleep, anxiety and medicinal plants, and Simon will continue his explorations, including a look at the psychotherapeutic prospects of working with hepatobiliary function.
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