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Nature’s Therapeutic HerbWhat is Skullcap? Where is it grown?Skullcap is a flowering perennial plant in the Lamiaceae family with beautiful tubular blue flowers that can be found growing on the grassy and sandy sea shores of Eastern Asia, China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia. Skullcap is also known as Chinese Skullcap and Baikal Skullcap. In traditional Chinese medicine it is call Huang …

Medicinal herbs are a wonderful way to help your body work to naturally improve your health. Herbal products come in a variety of forms such as capsules, teas, supplements, loose herbs and powders. While all these forms have their advantages, loose herbs and powders give you more options for use.You may have seen cut and powdered herbs sold in 1-ounce packages. The problem with this is whe …

Our store is fully stocked with a huge number of herbs, but we've managed to wrangle a group of them into a few shopping guides. These guides are great for folks just shopping for herbs for the first time, but also long time herb enthusiasts looking for easy groupings of some of the most popular herb categories. We hope you find them useful! We have really helpful guides like The Money Saver …

A mix up we often see in people first shopping for herbs is some confusion between Cat's Claw and ANOTHER Cat's Claw. Confusingly, some plants are named and nicknamed very similarly, even the same, and that is especially so in this case. Both Uncaria Tomentosa and Uncaria Rhynchophylla are herbs used popularly in herbal medicine, but with very different histories and uses.Uncaria Rhynchophyll …