Mark Hancock
Mark Hancock, MD, MPH
Mark Hancock, MD, MPH founded Humanizing Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, together with his wife Enid, in 2015. The clinic is strongly rooted in the couple’s belief that everyone should have quality integrative healthcare options. Dr. Hancock has worked with Anthroposophic Medicine, which originally introduced mistletoe as a cancer care therapy over one hundred years ago, for his entire professional career. Dr Hancock graduated summa cum laude from Saint George’s Medical School in 2008 and was elected Chief Resident during his training at University of New Mexico Hospital. He was introduced to the advanced use of mistletoe by Dr. Maurice Orange, greatly impacting his life course. Dr. Hancock’s journey through life has been full and varied and has taken him through art, philosophy, science, and even some farm work, before ultimately landing in medicine.
Mark’s Workshop
From the Compost Pile to the Human Being:
The Preparation Plants as Medicine
Every biodynamic farmer knows yarrow, chamomile, nettle, oak bark, dandelion, valerian, and stinging nettle as the plants that go into the compost preparations. Fewer of us have looked at what those same plants do inside a human being. They are medicines, and the process each one carries in the compost is the process it carries in the body.
In this workshop we take the preparation plants one at a time. Dr Mark works as a physician in integrative oncology and anthroposophic medicine, and will describe what each plant does clinically: yarrow for venous congestion and the liver, nettle for the iron and blood-building process, chamomile for digestion and spasm, valerian for warmth and sleep. Enid will bring the hands on application alongside each plant. She has worked with these remedies and therapies for many years and has trained in metal colored light therapy in Sweden and Germany.
Participants will handle and smell the herbs, work briefly with an unnamed plant to practice reading its gesture directly, and learn a yarrow herbal compress.