The medicine hunter: ‘I help to establish trade in plants’
Chris Kilham is a perennial of the herbals industry, a man who has for more than 20 years acted as a social, anthropological and botanical conduit between indigenous cultures in places like the Peruvian Amazon and western ingredients suppliers.
He advocates fair trade and counts as his main client French botanicals player, Naturex, which has benefitted from the relationships he has nurtured in herbs such as mocha, cat’s claw and dragon’s blood.
