Marcos Patchett is a medical herbalist. He graduated from Middlesex University's Herbal Medicine BSc course with a first class degree honours and the Elsevier science prize for plant pharmacology in 2005. He worked as a medical herbalist in King's Cross for several years, specialising in complementary care for people living with HIV, and practiced from Neal's Yard remedies' Therapy Rooms in Covent Garden and Notting Hill. He worked as a dispenser in Middlesex University's Archway training clinic, and later went on to become the clinical supervisor for Western Herbal medicine BSc and MSc courses at Middlesex's Integrative Medicine training clinic in Hendon. Marcos is also an enthusiastic student of Renaissance and Medieval astrology. He is frequently invited to give talks on contemporary herbal medicine and traditional medical astrology internationally. Marcos currently lives and works in London.

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A WORD ON ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: CHOCOLATE ROOTS

CHAPTER ONE - A potted history of chocolate

CHAPTER TWO - Bodies of chocolate

PART II: MEDICINAL CHOCOLATE

CHAPTER THREE - The chocolate apothecary

CHAPTER FOUR - Pharmaceutical chocolate

CHAPTER FIVE - Chocolate, love, and bondage (Part I)

CHAPTER SIX - Associates and accomplices

CHAPTER SEVEN - Chocolate, love, and bondage (Part II)

CHAPTER EIGHT - Chocolate formulary

PART III: METAPHYSICAL CHOCOLATE

CHAPTER NINE - Death by chocolate

CHAPTER TEN - The dark side of Venus

CONCLUSION

ENDNOTES

APPENDICES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX