Registered Herbalist and natural medicine specialist Alan Tillotson has been practicing Western and Oriental herbal medicine for over thirty years, and is a professional member (R.H.) of the peer reviewed American Herbalists Guild.
He holds an accredited Master’s degree in Asian Medical Systems (Goddard College), a non-accredited Ph.D. in Integrative Health Sciences (IUPS), and holds a Delaware medical license to practice Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture (L.Ac.), with the Delaware license title of “Eastern Medicine Practitioner.”
“Alan has independently developed safe natural medicine treatment strategies for hypoglycemia, multiple sclerosis and uveitis, and demonstrated their usefulness with patients. He has brought important treatments for retinal bleeding, hepatitis C, allergic rhinitis and glaucoma to America for the first time. Alan is a skilled thinker, writer and worker in his chosen field, and enjoys the respect of world leaders in the field of herbal medicine.” — Albert Schatz, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus Temple University, Discoverer of Streptomycin
Alan is well known in America for his apprenticeship study of Ayurvedic herbology beginning in 1976 in Nepal under Vaidya Mana Bajra Bajracharya. A link to the Ayurvedic textbook he helped translate from Sanskrit is found here.
He earned a teaching degree in meditation and Qi gong from the Jin Shan School of Taoist Meditation under Sifu Wang Yen-Nien.
He studied Chinese medicine in detail working side by side with his wife Naixin since 1991. And he studied Naturopathic medicine with the late Dr. Thomas Marsteller of Sellersville PA from 1984 to 1987.
Over several years Alan was invited as a guest faculty member, teaching several classes at the Thomas Jefferson Medical University’s alternative medicine course, as well as giving several subsequent seminars at the invitation of the Jefferson students. He is a graduate of the East-West Professional Herbalist course, which covers both Western and Chinese herbs. He has also worked as a formulator for the Natural Foods industry, including a product he developed called Myelin Sheath Energy and several other private label products he developed in for specialty problems in ophthalmolgy and other areas.
He maintains an extensive research library and computer database of natural medicine clinical applications from around the world. He is the author of the “Handbook of Ayurvedic Medicine” (1985) and the 600-page textbook for laypersons and professionals entitled “The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook.” This book describes the theory and mechanisms behind the safe and effective integration of Chinese, Ayurvedic and Western herbs with modern medicine. Currently he is in the early stages of working with Madhu Bajra Bajracharya of Nepal and Todd Caldecott of Canada on a translation from Sanskrit of a second medical textbook on Ayurvedic medicine.
Alan is also a radio co-host with Robert Abel MD of the Radio MD show “the Wizard of Eyes,” and a regular guest on the Frank Gregory WDEL show 101.7 FM.