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Herbs have been used for hundreds of years in every corner of the planet, for healing, ritual, spiritual practices and in food preparation for their enticing flavours and their ability to preserve foods.

When you use pure herbal medicines in your self-healing journey, you are taking in healing substances in the way that nature intended - simple, pure and without harmful side effects.

How herbal medicine works

Herbs are selected according to their dominant properties for healing. Herbal treatment for your condition will take into account the weaknesses that present themselves, and may include treatment for organs and systems that do not seem to be directly involved with your symptoms. This is because in herbal medicine we treat the whole person.

Herbs can sometimes have an immediate effect in your body, but most of the time will need to be taken over weeks or months to assist healing deeply. It takes many years to create an illness. It can take patience and time to unravel the knot!

Herbal medicine works best when combined with cleansing and rejuvenating dietary programs that supply optimal nutrition.

Why we use the whole herb

There is no need to isolate out the active ingredients from these powerful and magnificent plants. When you split apart a whole plant, you fractionate its wholeness, and produce compounds that are concentrated, and just as capable of causing harm as good in your body.

Chinese herbalists know this secret. After doing many studies into their medicinal plants, to understand the chemistry and satisfy the scientific Western world of their active ingredients, the Chinese herbalists simply continued to use the whole plant. They knew that along with the active chemicals, come the supportive substances that play an equally important role in healing.

I use liquid extracts that are prepared using a gentle cold extraction process. Modern manufacturing techniques have found ways to gently bring the chemistry of the whole plant into a liquid form, making the herb easier to take and absorb.

For busy people, and people who prefer not to take in the small amount of alcohol present in extracts, tablets of pure extracts are an option.

Herbs are the healers of the Wise Women of old, and today take their place as well researched and documented medicines of the 21st century.