08-05-2014, 11:28 AM
Your second post jogged a dream I had last night of buying medicinal herbs in giant baggies that were exceedingly cheap. I've been using plants in an aromatherapy capacity for a while now and have some herbs that I've used in tea but now I'm encouraged to expand my collection. 
I think purging ourselves of our consumer culture and the Earth of many of the unnecessary and destructive chemicals that we have created is a big part of our lesson here. So many of our products are an amalgamation of chemicals that are byproducts from other industrial practices, where any side effects are marketed as intended uses. (Did you know that they use ground up poultry feathers as a "dough conditioner" is many fast food pastry recipes? Something that is supposed to be discarded is cheaper than something that requires soil and sunlight to create.) I can speak from a point of experience that nothing does more for health and the general functioning of the body than clean living.
I think purging ourselves of our consumer culture and the Earth of many of the unnecessary and destructive chemicals that we have created is a big part of our lesson here. So many of our products are an amalgamation of chemicals that are byproducts from other industrial practices, where any side effects are marketed as intended uses. (Did you know that they use ground up poultry feathers as a "dough conditioner" is many fast food pastry recipes? Something that is supposed to be discarded is cheaper than something that requires soil and sunlight to create.) I can speak from a point of experience that nothing does more for health and the general functioning of the body than clean living.