




Shauna Ashewood
Adelaide Naturopath & Medical Herbalist
BSc. ND. DipEd. DipHlthCouns. MPH.
37 years experience

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About
Shauna Ashewood
Bsc ND DipEd DipHC MPH
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Master in Public Health 2001
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​Post graduate Diploma Health Counselling 1991
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Diploma Naturopathy 1987
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Post graduate Diploma Education 1983
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Bachelor of Science 1982
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Member ATMS; NHAA
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Previous Vice President National Herbalists Assoc Aust

I now consult only from Semaphore on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Evening appointments are available.

Phone 08 8242 2083 or 0402 820 139 email sashewoodnaturopath@gmail.com
I believe in and enjoy education, and believe your practitioner should be up to date with modern developments in natural medicines.
I became involved in natural medicine after witnessing its remarkable work in a friend of mine, and then its effect on my own health.
I lived in Tasmania at that time, but came to South Australia to study at the new SA College of Botanic Medicine and Natural Therapies.
Well that was an education - at a new college with its teething problems but also with the most interesting and experienced teachers one could wish for.
Marnie Morrow and Kerry Bone inspired me about Herbal medicine and I remain inspired by the gift and potential of medical herbalism.
I was also fortunate to be taught by (the late) great homeopath Robert Beheit and Iridology by Errol Harding.

Once in practice as a Naturopath I sought to widen my knowledge and experience by doing a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Counselling and then a Masters in Public Health.
While I was keen to be involved in research, even 12 years ago there were many obstacles and although I didnt get to conduct my own clinical trials, I felt well equipped to be able to evaluate the emerging body of research in the field of natural medicines.

At last I was getting to blend science with tradition! And over the last decade even more so as that body of evidence gets bigger & bigger. Not to be ignored though, is the very fine and huge volume of what we call "Traditional evidence" - that is, the body of empirical knowledge accumulated over many thousands of years of the practice of herbal and natural medicines.