Understanding Herbal Extraction Methods and Whole Food Concentrates
Herbalism is an ancient tradition of wildcrafting, growing, harvesting, processing, utilizing, and consuming plants and substances from nature for the benefit of human health, consciousness, and sustenance. For thousands of years, humans have been looking to the natural world for solutions in regards to health and wellness - long before the advent of modern medicine.Given thousands of years of human consumption, herbs have a verified track record of positive health benefits with an extremely low occurrence of side effects when properly utilized, compared to modern medicines utilizing isolated substances. Our collective understanding of herbs and how to prepare them has come a tremendous way over the generations. Yet, in some ways, it has devolved into a nutraceutical mindset in recent times.Wildcrafting EvolvesBack when humans first started experimenting with plants, they were simply wildcrafting (harvesting plants fresh in nature in their wild state) and experimenting with them by tas...