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Whether we realise it or not, herbs already play a huge part in
our everyday lives - be they the spices in our kitchen, the
vegetables in our salads, the dyes in our clothes or plants
(weeds) in our garden. |
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Historically the most important
uses of herbs were health-related. Whatever else men may have
done to themselves and to each other in the name of 'good
health' at various times, plants were the basic source of health
products for professional and folk preparations from the
earliest days until the twenty-first century. . |
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and ways have largely been replaced by 'modern' ideas and
techniques: natural products by synthetic supplements, natural
foods by process convenience products, plants, and dyes and
colourings by chemical substitutes As
the excess of the 'modern' philosophy of waste become apparent,
we are looking back and finding that perhaps there is something
worth saving in those 'outdated' ideas after all and that there
is room for herbalism, homeopathy, surgery, acupuncture,
physiotherapy, manipulation, and such like.
Over the last couple of years I have been
fortunate to be able to work with one of the country's top
herbalists and based on feedback from dog owners, we believe
there is a real need for the following herbal preparations,
'Come On!', 'Calm Down!', 'Get Over!',
'Heal!', 'Eezy Peezy!', 'Steady!' and 'Go On!'. |