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Do Your Homework on HerbsWe have been in business for over 23 years, and this story I am about to tell is the most outrageous mistake I have ever seen.   Late last week a customer called asking for Stephania Tetrandra Root, also known as Han Fang Ji.   We do carry this, but she had never used it before and only wanted an ounce.   At the present time we only sell by th …

When you are looking at herbs and nutritional supplements you see the terms Organic and GMP - which stands for Good Manufacturing Practices.   How do they affect the products you’re looking at? Which one is safest?We are all fairly familiar with the term “organic”. We see it at the grocery store in the produce section and health food departments. But what makes a product organic? Ba …

Tinctures are a great way to enjoy the health benefits of herbs. They extract all the healthy benefits out of the herbs into the liquid solvent, also called a menstruum.  This allows a potent dosage verses other available forms of the herb. Dosages of the concentrated tincture require a smaller dose, than say a cup of herbal tea.  Super simple to use and it is so easy to stick a small …

Mushrooms are small living organisms that look sort of like small umbrellas. Athough they may look somewhat similar to plants, they are not technically classified as such. There are over 3,000 types of mushrooms currently known, classified as fungi. Medicinal mushrooms and fungi have been used for thousands of years in traditional medicines. "There are at least 270 species of mushroom th …