Herbal medicine is our past, present and future in equal doses.  Plant medicines have been used worldwide for thousands of years from the earliest prehistoric times for healing.  Today, the pharmaceutical industry continue to turn to the natural world for inspiration.  They isolate chemicals from plants to develop drugs that help to relieve symptoms of disease.  The hope for the future is that plants hold cures to the worlds most stubborn diseases. 

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Medical herbalists believe that using the whole plant as a medicine is also effective and safe as we have co-

evolved with plants.  The cells of bodies are biologically familiar with the cacophony of natural chemicals found in plants.  Many whole herb preparations, that have undergone the rigors of a scientific clinical trial, have been found to be safe and effective.  Other plants are still awaiting their ‘validation’ from the scientific community but continue to be respected and adored by herbalists who rely on hundreds of years of clinical observation to justify their use.