I have been enchanted with the plant world for a very long time. I have a photo of myself as a very young child, crouched in a meadow picking flowers. I have another photo of myself last year in almost the exact same pose. I have gardened for years and felt most relaxed and at peace when I was out among the leaves and flowers and with my hands in the soil.

After years of working as a nurse and experiencing a mounting frustration with the failure of the western pharmaceutical approach to cure chronic illness, I gradually began to come to a realization. We, as a modern population of humans, have forgotten what our true nature is. No wonder the pills that are manufactured in a lab often don’t help us or only help us short-term. Pills do not have the ability to remind us of our true nature and help us find our way back. Pills keep us focused on our disease states, when instead our true nature is to be in a state of balanced wellness. That’s when I realized that in order to remember our true nature, we need to go back to nature! We need to get out in to nature and to use plants as our healing remedies, because plants can remind us of what we are meant to be. The way of the plants precedes our pharmaceutical industry by thousands of years, after all.