Chris Kilham
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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“Dona Lucy wants to read your coca leaves,” Sergio informs me. Inside the building at Chakarunas, shaman Dona Lucy sits in a chair with a bag of coca leaves. She is short, cheerful, red-faced and terrifically friendly. I ask her questions. Previously I paid little attention to the coca leaf readings, but then dona Lucy nailed a piece of improbable and very specific information, and I have listened more carefully since. Will a medicine hunter TV show happen this year? What about the maca business? What else does she see? She studies leaves lying in her lap. “Yes, the TV show will happen soon,” she tells me. Dona Lucy brandishes a handful of green coca leaves. “See this? You will have lots of money.” She laughs and squints at the leaves and tosses them again onto the lap of her skirt. She looks at Sergio and me. “And you two will walk many miles together.” Read more...
