Marcos Patchett

Marcos has been a practising herbalist since 2004. He worked as a medical herbalist in King’s Cross for several years (2004-2007 and 2012-2013) specialising in complementary care for people living with HIV, and practiced from Neal’s Yard remedies’ Therapy Rooms in Covent Garden and, later, Notting Hill, for nine years (2007-2016). He worked as a dispenser in Middlesex University’s Archway training clinic for their Western Herbal Medicine BSc in 2009-2010, and later as a clinical supervisor for the Western Herbal medicine BSc and MSc courses at Middlesex University’s Integrative Medicine training clinic from 2013-2018, and at Westminster University in 2021-2022. He currently practices in Wood Green.

Marcos is also a student of renaissance and classical astrological techniques, and a dedicated chocoholic; his first book, The Secret Life of Chocolate (thesecretlifeofchocolate.com), a fourteen-year project on the ancient history, usage, pharmacology, and cultural meaning of Cacao/chocolate, was released in 2020.