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Herbs can be expensive, there's no way to argue around that. When the costs are higher you always want to be sure you're getting precisely what you pay for. You might find a listing online that purports to be the herb you want, but without verification and without any testing to prove that it is really that herb. Anyone can sell their wares online in a variety of ways--how can you be sure what …

We get calls all day here at 1st Chinese Herbs and at times, the questions are difficult to figure out. For example, someone called in and asked if we had "whortleberry," or "hurtle berry." We had no idea what this name was referring to, so we asked for a botanical name. The botanical name was Vaccinium myrtillus, which we can identify as bilberries.  Without the botanical name, …