Do to over picking, standardized extracts, improper and over use, and lack of a certifiable farm grown supply some of the most popular and important medicinal plants are near extinction!
Grow Your Own--Grow Commercially--Boycott Wild Crafted
Note: Wild Root collection for commercial distribution places that specie at the highest risk!!
As medicinal herbs gain there rightful place
as a legitimate healing mode more demands will be put on supply and a more
rational preparation and use must be adopted.
The Homeopathic method of preparation
(including Bach Flower Remedies and "Cell Salts") meets the criteria for the most ecological use of wild plant material.
Below is a partial list of endangered plants commercially available as medicinal herbs. This is only a beginning of an exploration of this threatening if not troubling situation. Contact us with any additions and/or comments at healingcircles@gilanet.com and we'll post anything important here on this page or on a linked "comments page".
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The plant part is listed as reference to that which is most commonly collected and used.
Golden Seal Rt.
Black Cohosh Rt.
Blue Cohosh Rt.
Ginseng Rt.
Osha Rt.
Lady's Slipper Rt. Cypripedium spp
ButterFly Weed (Pleurisy Rt.) Euphrasia tuberosum
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