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#45 Why Every Herbalist Should Learn Medical Botany
Why Herbalists Need Medical Botany
You've done the training. You know your calendula, chamomile, echinacea, and goldenrod.
But the aster family alone holds 34,000 species.
In this episode, April shares why medical botany is the missing framework for trained herbalists. It was once the backbone of American healthcare, and today almost no one has heard of it.
In this episode:
How April found medical botany. Fieldwork with botanist Richard Porcher led her to Charleston's Waring Historical Library, where she found shelves of medical botany texts and MD dissertations on single plants and regional…
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