
25/07/2025
HERBAL REMEDIES: I've had people ask me about herbal medicine over the years. Every practitioner will formulate differently to treat the same problem. This is about knowledge and experience gathered over the years. I work differently to how I was initially taught and focus more on drop dosage now to Mil dosage, really depends what I am treating. Often I use herbs that are not available retail since we must consider potency and what we know of the herbs and how they work. Mixing a few herbs together can be quite the Art since some herbs really don't like being mixed with others. If you don't know this then a formula could be counter productive. Its similar to companion gardening, some plants don't thrive well next to others etc. Sometimes I may just give a single herb other times the max I have in a formula might be around 6 but usually its 3-4. I mainly use the highest potency called a 1:1. In recent years with issues around covid era and staff shortage for growers, pickers and manufacturing etc along with the blame on orchestrated weather patterns around the world affecting plant growth they say due to scarcity we can't get some herbs or the prices escalate. Fluid extracts are what most western herbalists or Naturopaths would use. Occasionally tinctures are used by some but I never use them. They are slightly weaker solution, the professional preference is FE's. People still question effectiveness of Herbal Medicine. If you know how to choose the right herbs for the disorder and you know how to formulate and dispense then the disorders can be resolved or at least in some genetic conditions maintained without side effects.