Responding to Michael Bennett: I’m a new herbalist, and part of the reason I became an herbalist is because it truly is/can be “green medicine.” To be clear, I always tell people: The United States has about the best emergency medicine in the world. If you are in a collision, go to a hospital, not me. But if you’ve got digestive issues, want to improve your reproductive health, are under a lot of stress, I may be able to help you. BTW, no insurers cover what I do; but thanks to ACA and rising costs, they are beginning to work more on prevention, which IS the greenest of medicines! The plants — the original, non-patented medicines — are there for us (of course, they have their own reasons for being, too). I don’t believe the status quo will continue. What concerns me most now — I live in the Mid-Atlantic, where we, like many around the country, have had higher-than-usual temps this summer — is the convergence of the chronic diseases (where herbalism can help a great deal) with heat- or cold-related illnesses that have taken a back seat over the last 75 or so years, thanks to air-conditioning, heating and refrigeration. I’m not a PA or an NP, so I’m not doing injections, running drip lines or the like. But tincture bottle lids are plastic. We are all vulnerable and have to face up to that and consider how best to change.
Leigh Glenn
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By: artofearth
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