 Experience
the healing power of nature’s pharmacy!
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 herbal medicines in your self-healing journey,
you are taking in healing substances in the way that nature
intended.
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 well. 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.
When I first started out in Natural Medicine, I ground whole
dried herbs up into powders, and blended formulas together
for my clients. I created a range of teas and tinctures
to support the powdered formulas.
 This
soon became too labour intensive for my growing business,
so I began to 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 from, making the herb easier to take and
absorb.
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. Herbs work best when combined with
cleansing and rejuvenating dietary programs.
It takes many years to create an illness. It can take patience
and time to unravel the knot.
Herbs make your healing easier. They help you to connect
with the forces of nature because they are made of those same
forces, and so are you.
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.
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