Demetria Clark

Demetria Clark (born 1974)in Laconia, NH is an internationally known herbalist and aromatherapist. She is known for her hands on, humanistic approach to herbalism and aromatherapy. She works with the Wise Woman Tradition and a practical hands on approach that has allowed her to teach and travel the world. She pioneered online herbal education, having taught over 1000 students via distance learning as of 2006. She teaches in the US and Canada, at herbal and international midwifery conferences.

Demetria taught one of the first for credit aromatherapy classes at a college in the United States revolutionizing aromatherapy education in the US. Her teaching schedule encompasses herbal medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, psychology of birth, ecoherbalism, nutrition, and women's health activism and her venues include medical schools, wellness centers, midwifery schools, as well as many conferences. Demetria also has worked over the years to fight tobacco addiction among teenages with UMASS and is immortalized with a plaque at the Medical School, and worked with the initial team to prevent children under 18 from buying cigarettes in Massachusetts, with Dr. Joseph DiFranza.

Demetria's articles have appeared in BirthKit Midwifery Today, Vegetarian Baby Magazine, now the online journal, Pandoras Box, Altar, Vegetarian Journal, International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases, and many other print and online publications. She has been profiled in Herbs for Health and Self Magazine.

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Publications

The BirthKit a Midwifery Today Publication

• "Aromatherapy for Pregnancy and Labor" Issue 41 Spring 2004
• "What Herbs Are Good for Labor?" Issue 43 Fall 2004
• "Herbs for Mother's Care Postpartum" Issue 44 Winter 2004
• "Herbs for Perineal Care part I" Issue 46 Summer 2005
• "Herbs for Perineal Care part II" Issue 47 Fall 2005

Vegetarian Journal

• "Make Your Own Vegan Skin Care Products" Jan, 2001 [1]

Saponifier Magazine

• "Sage... Herb of the Year" Volume 3, Issue 4

Special Delivery

• "Herbal Remedies for Postpartum" Vol. 28 No. 2 Summer 2005
• "Aromatherapy for Labor and Birth" Vol. 29 No. 3 Fall 2005

Pandora's Box Magazine

• "Earthly treatments for Childhood Diseases" Volume 1 Issue 2 Summer 2003

International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases

• "Cigarette package design: opportunities for disease prevention" DiFranza JR, Clark DM, Pollay RW. - 2002 [2]

Melt Magazine

• "Pamper Yourself through Winter Ails" Issue 32, 2003