13/05/2023
One of my heroes- a herbalist of old, a wealth of knowledge, a humble man, a successful Australian businessman, a 3rd generation healer, a descendant of herbalist ‘royalty’. A national treasure. 💗
“Once upon a time, not so very long ago, before Coles sold vitamins, before there was a [Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy)], before there was a complementary and alternative medicine industry, there was the traditional herbalist. The practitioner of the garden and the hedgerows and the waste lands, and the bush was the keeper of the old ways, the old knowledge, the ancient wisdoms, the elder, the sage. That is where we find [our founder Lyndsay Shume], walking the well-worn paths of ancestral knowledge and bringing that knowledge to modern times.” Adapted from Evelyn N. Vale Dorothy Hall in the Journal of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society, June 1, 2012.