What is a Botanical? That's a good question. If you look up botanicals in the dictionary, or on the Internet, you will find many definitions for the word botanical.

A "Botanical" is:

1) Any product that is made from plants or herbs.

2) Plants used for therapeutic or cosmetic function. Includes medicinal or culinary herbs and spices. Used in fresh, dried or extracted form.

3) A covering term applied to the numerous herbs, seeds, roots and berries used in the flavoring formula for gin and other flavored spirits. "Would you pour me another glass of your best botanical please?

You can find botanicals just about anywhere. Face care products, teas, extracts, essential oils, soap making ingredients, spa products such as body scrubs, bath salts and outside growing in your lawn.

Wild Botanicals are what we like to call our products at The Healing Forest. We harvest our products the old fashioned way, by hand. Our herbs are naturally grown, organic and are not produced or cultivated on a farm or plantation. Our Wild Botanicals come from plants grown in the rainforest in the Amazon cultivated by Mother Nature. No chemicals or artificial sprays.

Hand tools hooked to hard bodies are what we use in the collection and processing of all our herbs. Our all natural herb teas are *wildcrafted, made from the finest grade, plants. Sun dried under the Amazonian sun, and we never add preservatives.

*Wildcrafted refers to wild plants that are gathered from their natural, wild habitat.

Sometimes commercially grown herbs are referred to as "natural" because they naturally grow in the wild. Some commercially grown, natural herbs contain chemicals which have been applied during the planting, growing, or harvesting stages to help control insects and pathogens. These farms should not claim to be organic, and by law they cannot, but sometimes they do if they stopped using chemical sprays for a certain number of days before harvesting. This is commonly referred to as a "loop hole" in the law.

We never use chemicals, so you never have to wonder about a loop hole.

Herbs vs Medicine:

This is one debate that might last for many years to come….or will it?
Today, especially in the USA, consumers are finding it increasingly difficult to access natural herbal plants that were once common household items that could be found in practically every grandmothers garden or in her medicinal pantry.

To mention "Natural Cures" today is almost to speak a forbidden word, the ultimate four-letter word only spelled with twelve letters. Pharmaceutical companies and the FDA and FTC are coming down hard on four letter words. You don't have to look far these days to find courageous fighters for the truth standing on both sides of the fence waving big bright banners. From those who tell everything "they" don't want you to know, to the giants themselves, multinational pharmaceutical companies who make billions of dollars developing cures for deadly diseases, to TV infomercials offering up miracle pills in colorful plastic bottles. Pay close attention to the very fast talking guy at the end of the pretty infomercial. What he has to say about side effects from taking those chemical drug should scare you.
Nevertheless, these artificial treats are widely sold and with the blessing of the FTC, the FDA.

Chemicals are not all bad. In fact, herbal remedies work so well because they are chemicals. Herbs are packed full of chemicals, natural chemicals, that form a very unique and complex recipe for health and well-being.

Extract, and isolate, these natural chemical plant compounds and we no longer have the same medicinal effect. By doing so we effectively destroy the very thing that makes one plant effective in curing a certain illness over the next that doesn't. Plants as cures cannot be "owned" or "copyrighted". Therefore natural plant cures have zero value as a drug. This is why the multi-billion dollar Pharmaceutical Industry continues in its course to extract and isolate plant compounds, making them eligible for "copyright" protection.....worth billions in profits.

Fortunately, natural plant cures are still being successfully used, and continue to be available today, virtually unchanged for hundreds or thousands of years.

Natural cures are not just the wild imaginations of small forest dwellers or mystical medicine men. Plant cures are real, they are safe, and they are effective when used properly.

Small forest dwellers? What does this mean? They are the forest spirits, and they real, and they live in the forest among the plants. Native Shaman's have relied on these forest dwellers for centuries. Sometimes a Shaman will call upon the small dwellers to help him identify some illness and find its cure. The forest dwellers help maintain and safeguard all the plants in the forest, you could say they are the grounds keepers and security guards of the rainforests, without guns of course.

Until you have been witness to this extraordinary phenomenon you might find it hard to except. That's OK.

Here at The Healing Forest we believe modern medicine and traditional medicine do work together. Furthermore, we recommend supplementing your diet with herbs before you become ill.

We believe Prevention is the best cure.

Make wellness a part of your daily life, use natural remedies and herbal supplements.

If you, or anyone you know, are taking prescription medicine and/or undergoing chemical therapy, we strongly advise consulting your doctor before beginning any form of alternative treatment or daily supplement routine.

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