This Week on the Prairie

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This week, I’m starting a new endeavor that means a lot to me.  I will be starting “Foundation of Health Consults”.  It will include a free introductory consult. I will detail this below but first let me preface with why this is important to me. 

When a person goes into the business of natural healthcare it is usually because…

It's hard to be passionate about something that many refer to as "alternative", "hippy stuff", "quackery", etc.  Honestly, the majority of the population doesn't take herbal medicine and holistic remedies seriously.  It's hard to imagine that for thousands of years these methods were the only way.  In my herbalism courses, the first class we took was a class on History.  We learned about Hippocrates (the Father of Medicine) and his studies of the human body, followed by Dioscorides, Samuel…

Plants are often viewed as alternative medicine.  However, truth be told, plants are the original medicine.  Today, I'm going to introduce you to a plant with so many benefits I may sound too grandiose attempting to cover them all. So, let's go back in time to Ancient Egypt where we have proof this plant was used medicinally. 

You hear licorice and you think of the long, ropey Twizzlers right?  I hear licorice and I think of the chopped brown roots in my apothecary.  I think you'll…