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THE STORY OF DEAN'S NATURAL THERAPEUTICS
The Dean's connection with pharmaceuticals began in 1928, when a young Ted "Edwin" Dean moved to the newly formed Soldier Settlement of Red Cliffs, in northwestern Victoria, to buy a pharmacy. With him, he carried a small handwritten book full of natural remedies, which he procured throughout his years of study in Melbourne. As time passed, Ted’s handmade potions became a popular commodity among the clientele of Red Cliffs, serving as a cure for many ailments and sicknesses within the community. Dean’s Pharmacy, as it was named, quickly became a beloved family business, and a notable nook of healing knowledge along the Murray River.
In 1957, Ted’s son, Robert, joined his father in the family business after studying pharmacy in Melbourne. When Ted passed away, Robert continued to carry on his father’s legacy within the town, until Dean’s Pharmacy was sold in 2007. Although Robert was then retired, his many potion bottles and herbal recipes continued to litter the family home, and remained a source of interest among many of his children and grandchildren.
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Robert’s son, Timothy, chose a different path; becoming an Acupuncturist in 1993. Tim has long had a passion for natural remedies, and after many years of practising as an established Acupuncturist and Remedial Masseur, he completed a Masters in Chinese Herbal Medicine in 2019, in Melbourne.
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Through Tim’s combined experience and expansive knowledge in traditional Chinese healing, he has been able to keep his family's generational pull towards natural remedies alive in the 21st Century. All the while using his late grandfather’s recipe book to combine Eastern and Western therapeutical healing.
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As the three generations have come and gone throughout the last 100 years, the interest in herbal remedies has evidently remained a constant importance within the Dean family. Ted’s recipe book has travelled a long way from those early days in 1928 to the modern era of 2020, instilling a new generation of healers in the Australian bush.
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