People
Hastings, Laura H.
| Job Title | Ethnobotanist |
|---|---|
| Department | Jodrell |
| Section | Sustainable Uses |
| Science Teams |
United Kingdom Large-Scale Syntheses |
| Joined Kew | 1982 |
| Foreign Language(s) |
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Univ. London, 1981.
Remembered Remedies Committee, Ethnomedica.
Role
Co-ordination of activities for Ethnomedica – Remembered Remedies; organise the collection of remembered remedy data and incorporate it into the database.
Main activity is to preserve British Herbal Traditions by documenting people’s remembered remedies. Includes the collation of data of plant remedy use from elderly people collected by volunteers and overseeing the entry of data into a database by volunteers. Role also includes exploring ways of publishing this data on the internet on the project website and liaising with the other members of the committee who represent the following organisations: National Institute of Medical Herbalists, Chelsea Physic Garden, Eden Project and the Natural History Museum (London).
Projects
Medicinal Uses of British Plants
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Hastings, L.H. (2003). A Revision of Rhapis, the Lady Palms. Palms 47(2): 62-78.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Morrissey, S.E., Davey, N.J., Hastings, L.H. and Laycock, J.F. (1994). The effect of Phyllanthus sellowianus extract on the onset of diabetes in streptozotocin-treated rats. Journal of Endocrinology 140: 31.
Hastings, L.H. (1996). The botanic gardens at Kew and the Wartime need for medicines. The Pharmaceutical Journal 257(6923): 923-927.
Hastings, L. & Rumball, N. (1996). A tap and a tipple of silver birch. MAFF Bulletin 6-7.