Dr. Rosari Kingston
PHD. M.SC (Herbal Medicine), M.IIMH.
Dr. Rosarie Kingston is a medical herbalist, educator, and researcher whose work bridges traditional healing knowledge with clinically grounded integrative medicine. Through her teaching at ICTIM, she helps students develop a deeper understanding of herbal medicine in practice, with a particular focus on Irish healing traditions, cultural context, and whole-person care.
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Dr. Rosari Kingston
Dr. Rosarie Kingston practises as a medical herbalist in an integrative setting in Church Cross, Skibbereen. Alongside her clinical work, she teaches as an adjunct lecturer on the Irish Healing Tradition in the Department of Ethnography at University College Cork. Her work brings together clinical herbal medicine, cultural history, and traditional systems of healing in a way that supports both professional practice and deeper understanding.
Rosarie’s contribution to ICTIM reflects the college’s wider vision: to teach traditional, European, and integrative herbal medicine with academic rigour, cultural depth, and clinical relevance. Her teaching helps students see medicine not only as a technical discipline, but also as something shaped by worldview, history, environment, and lived experience.
Areas of Expertise
Clinical Herbal Medicine
Supporting patient care through a clinically informed herbal medicine approach grounded in safety, tradition, and evidence.
Irish Healing Traditions
Exploring the lineage, worldview, and therapeutic relevance of Irish traditional medicine and indigenous healing knowledge.
Integrative Medicine Education
Teaching students how to think critically across systems of medicine while maintaining professional and educational standards.
Research and Writing
Publishing and presenting work on folk medicine, Irish ethnomedicine, worldview, ritual healing, and the place of traditional knowledge in contemporary medicine.
Teaching at ICTIM
At ICTIM, Dr. Rosarie Kingston contributes to teaching that connects traditional healing wisdom with modern clinical thinking. Her work is especially relevant to students who want to understand herbal medicine within a broader cultural, historical, and integrative framework.
Research, publications, and academic contribution
Rosarie has written and presented on topics including Irish traditional medicine, folklore, worldview, biomedicine, and ritual healing. Her published and presented work reflects a long-standing interest in how traditional healing systems develop, endure, and remain clinically and culturally relevant.
Peer reviewed articles – sole author.
- A Tale of Two Bonesetters
- Selected Herbs and their Uses in the National Folklore Schools Collection (NFCS), Co. Clare: A Case Study. Béascna 2011
- The Evil Eye and Biomedicine. Béascna
- Folk Medicine and Its Second Life. Estudios Irlandeses. 2017(available at www.estudiosirlandeses.org)
Peer reviewed papers, with others.
- Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. M.Tassel, R.Kingston, D.Gilroy, M.Lehane, A. Furey. Pharmacognosy reviews. 01/2010; 4(7):32-41
- Looking Backward to find the Path Forward. A. Furey, R. Kingston. Pharmacognosy Research 05/2010 2(3) 121-4
Conference presentations
- 2011 Collins Barracks, Dublin:
Irish Ethno-Medicine: The lineage, validity and the reasons for the non-development of Irish Traditional Medicine - 2013. Magic Moments in Maynooth, Maynooth University.
An examination of the therapeutic role of charms and rituals - 2014. Botanica, Trinity College Dublin.
Irish Traditional Medicine within the Global Context - 2016: New Crops Old Fields. Re-imagining Irish Folklore. Queens University Belfast
The Evil Eye and Biomedicine - 2016: Irish Institute of Medical Herbalists: AGM conference
Worldview and Clinical Practice
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Dr. Rosarie Kingston is the leading authority on the history and practice of Traditional Irish Medicine that infuse the modern Irish landscape, music and language.
In her book “Ireland Hidden Medicine: An exploration of Irish indigenous medicine from legend and myth to the present day” Dr. Kingston explored the origins, decline and re-emergence of this tradition. Her course “In Health & Healing in the Irish Calendar Year”, takes you through a year-long practice to integrate these traditions into the modern world.
This course is ideally suited those of Irish decent that wish to re-establish and authentic connection to their ancestorial roots and anyone seeking to integrate the Irish tradition into modern life.
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