Did you know that most of our modern medicines were originally derived from plants?!
It’s amazing! We walk on medicines and food practically every day without thinking about it, in fact we usually call them weeds!
This has always fascinated me. Yet I didn’t know that the oldest herbal college in North America was virtually walking distance from where I grew up.
Finally, with my children almost grown, I decided to listen to the call of herbal medicine... and I discovered that herbal college. About time, right?! I completed the four years of training at Dominion Herbal College (established in 1926), and became one of the very few Clinical Herbal Therapists (CHT) and Registered Herbalists (RH) in Alberta, Canada.
While attending college, I started to suffer from allergies. My doctor prescribed medications/puffers, but it didn’t solve the problem. So I turned to the herbal medicine I was just starting to study formally – of course it worked! I no longer use medications… no drugs at all. I don’t take herbs for the allergies anymore either.
Having benefited from herbal medicine, and seen others benefit too (including pets), and because I don’t like to see people suffering needlessly, it was only natural to start a herbal practice.
My goal is to make herbal medicine an integral and normal part of health care, and not just an “alternative”. Yes, you really do have effective options beyond what you may have been told. Modern science is proving it! With knowledgeable and appropriate guidance, herbal medicine is safe, natural, and it works!
