Martin J. Scott is a qualified flower essence practitioner. A graduate and Fellow of the British Institute of Homeopathy, he is on the faculty of the Hahnemann Center for Heilkunst (Ottawa, Canada), the world's first educational center dedicated to the teaching of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann's complete medical system. As well as writing and teaching, with his partner Gael Mariani, he is privately involved in wholistic relationship therapy and working with animals. He is the coauthor of two books on the use of flower essences for animals.