A clear, pattern-based approach to healing rooted in land, nature and the wisdom of the body.

The Turton Method™ is the framework that underpins all of my work at Sussex Herbal.
It brings together iridology, constitutional energetics, emotional terrain, herbal medicine and the natural world into one coherent way of understanding your health.

Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, it asks deeper questions:

• What pattern is unfolding in your body?

• Which terrain has been created through stress, emotion, ancestry or lifestyle?

• What needs warmth, moisture, movement or nourishment?

• Where does the body need to be met with gentleness, and where with strength?

• Which plants will create the clearest path back to repair?

This is a method shaped by nature, backed by clinical clarity, and rooted in the understanding that the body is always communicating.

1. Reading the Pattern

Every person carries a unique terrain: hot or cold, damp or dry, tense or depleted.
This terrain determines how symptoms emerge and how the body heals.

The Turton Method™ identifies these underlying patterns first, so herbs are chosen with precision and sensitivity.
This avoids overstimulation, supports your constitution, and ensures each formula works with the direction your body wants to move.

2. Iridology as Map

Your irises hold the map of your constitution, vitality and emotional imprinting.
Iridology reveals:

• where strength is held

• where resilience is thin

• which systems need support

• where inflammation or depletion begins

• how stress and emotion have shaped your physiology

This is not diagnostic; it is directional.
It shows the story behind your symptoms and the path your body wants to take to recover.

3. Nature as Medicine

The land around us influences the way healing unfolds.
In Sussex, the chalk hills, salt winds, hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) and juniper (Juniperus communis) all play a part.

I create herbal formulas that combine:

• a bitter to awaken digestion, metabolism and liver flow

• a mover (aromatic or pungent) to shift stagnation

• a finer herb to harmonise, soften and guide

• a few drops of aromatic medicine to deepen circulation and coherence

Formulas are simple, elegant and designed for your constitution.

4. Emotional Terrain

Many health struggles arise where emotion and physiology meet.
Stress, grief, shock, boundaries, collapse, over-giving and depletion all leave signatures in the body.

The Turton Method™ acknowledges these patterns gently.
We work at the level of nervous system, story, and inherited imprinting as much as we work with tissue state and organ systems.

Healing becomes possible when the emotional terrain is recognised and supported.

5. Repair Through Coherence

When we understand:

• the terrain

• the constitution

• the emotional pattern

• the iridology map

• the seasonal context

• and the plants that meet these needs

the body can return to coherence.

This is not quick-fix medicine.
It is deep, steady, structural repair guided by land, season, plant intelligence and the clarity of the pattern.

What the Turton Method™ Means for You

You receive care that is:

• personalised

• grounded

• nature-led

• emotionally aware

• clinically thoughtful

• pace-sensitive

• and designed to strengthen your long-term resilience

You walk away with a clear understanding of your terrain, your constitution, and the plants that support you.

Begin Your Journey

If you feel ready to work with a method that respects both your physiology and your emotional landscape, you are welcome to begin.