Name: Carol Wade
Specialty: Herbal / Nutritional Counseling
Contact: florafauna1@yahoo.com Tel: (805)646-0693


This practitioner periodically holds public lectures and presentations. Please email for more information.
Herbalism - any system of medicine or health care that relies on plants as the source of remedies; as seen principally in:

1) almost all cultures prior to the impact of the Industrial Revolution, mostly as a self-help therapy but exemplified in the hands of locally-trained rural practitioners, and

2) as a substantial modern alternative (complement) to conventional drug-based medicine.
In most countries traditional and modern usages coexist; thus herbalism today is based on remedies and techniques tried and tested through generations of use, but increasingly re-evaluated in the light of modern medical refinements.
A key feature of herbalism is that remedies are used to support and modify disturbed body functions, rather than directly attack the symptoms of disease.
from:
The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism - A Comprehensive Guide to Practical Herbal Therapy
Simon Y. Mills, M.N.I.M.H.