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Herbs
For thousands of years, herbs have been used to help maintain many aspects of
health and wellness. Today, research and technology are bringing herbalism into
the modern age – with improved extraction, standardization, and farming methods.
Clinical studies are beginning to validate herbal therapies, so even some in the
medical community are starting to accept them.
Many of today’s medicines were originally derived
from botanicals. Aspirin once came from the white willow tree, quinine from the
bark of the cinchona tree, and digitalis from foxglove. Herbs are still the
basis for Chinese medicine and are important constituents of many European
natural remedies. As Hippocrates said, “Let they food by thy medicine, thy
medicine be thy food”.
Some of the herbs available on this site are
wild-crafted – grown in the wild – while others are meticulously cultivated on
herb farms.
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