With All of the Side Effects of Modern Chemical Drugs
It’s Time for All of Us to Rediscover

Nature’s  Pharmacy

For thousands of years, across every continent in the world, plants have been man’s primary medicine. With the advent of modern technology, however, most people have abandoned herbal medicine in favor of modern chemical medicine. People are told that herbal medicine is primitive, inconsistent, slow-acting, unreliable and even dangerous. On the other hand, people are told that modern drugs are advanced, dependable, fast acting, reliable and carefully tested for safety and efficacy.

Yet consider these facts. Half of all drugs released into the marketplace in the past 30-40 years have been withdrawn from the marketplace within 10 years because of dangerous side-effects. Americans, who comprise only 5% of the worlds population, take half of all the drug prescriptions in the world. Yet, life expectancy in America is 42nd in the world. And medical mistakes, usually involving these “safe, reliable drug medicines” are the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

On the other side of the coin, herbs are sold by people with very little training in either medicine or herbalism, and yet, there are almost no deaths attributed to commercial herbal products and very few adverse effects. And, if one examines the evidence, in most cases where a person’s death or serious illness is blamed on herbs, the evidence that the herb was really to blame in those situations is usually pretty weak.

Furthermore, if herbal medicine appears slow-acting, unreliable or inconsistent, it usually isn’t the fault of the herbs. The real problem is that there are very few well-trained herbalists in America, so most people using herbs don’t really understand herbalism very well.

Herbalism is different from modern medicine in two ways. The first difference is obvious, doctors use single chemical compounds called drugs and herbalists use whole plants that contain thousands of chemical compounds. The assumption is that the isolated chemical is more reliable, more effective and safer than a mixture of compounds produced by plants that actually vary widely from year to year. In Nature’s Pharmacy you’ll learn why that complex mixture of thousands of biological compounds actually heals the body better than isolated chemicals.

But, there is a second way in which herbalism differs from modern medicine and that is that herbal medicine is focused on treating the person, not treating the disease. The reason why many people using herbs don’t get the kind of fast-acting and reliable results that herbs are capable of delivering is that they are trying to use herbs like drugs to treat the disease, instead of using herbs like traditional herbalists did to treat the person. In summary:


There is obviously a big difference in these two paradigms and once you understand the later, you will start to see that it is vastly superior in both safety and efficacy.

Of course, the whole CHC program is actually designed to help switch a person’s mindset from thinking in terms of treating diseases into thinking about building health, but Nature’s Pharmacy is specifically devoted to understanding our green plant allies and how they can help us to heal. It provides a solid understanding of herbal medicines, how they work and how to use them effectively.

Specifically, Nature’s Pharmacy covers:

• Helps you understand how herbs work by dividing them into twelve “energetic” categories based on taste, smell, major constituents and their effects on the human body
• Explains the “doctrine of signatures, ” that is, how a plant’s taste, smell, shape, color, texture, form and habitat provide clues to its “medicine power.”
• The basics of plant chemistry explained in layman’s terms.
• Detailed profiles of 54 herbs to illustrate the different energetic categories of herbs
• Key herbs for each of the major body systems
• The language of herbalism—the terms used to describe the healing actions of herbs and examples of herbs that have each action.
• A guide to 264 major herbs in modern herbal commerce, including the 168 herbs that professional herbalists in America rated the most important herbs to know.

The manual in the Nature’s Pharmacy course is a great reference book to have on your shelf to look up information on specific medicinal plants, but the course is much more than an herbal reference. The DVDs help you see herbs from two complementary perspectives—the scientific approach based on plant chemistry and hte energetic approach based on taste and smell. The audio CDs help the reader understand the real tradition of herbalism as a philosophy based on life versus the lifeless system of modern medicine.

To help the student experience this difference directly, Nature’s Pharmacy includes a sample kit of herbs that allows you to experience the energetic categories of herbs by tasting, smelling and feeling the plant materials. This allows you to understand what herbs are really about in a way that simply reading about herbs will never allow.

Traditional herbalism recognizes that there is more to life and health and chemistry. It ackowledges that there is a “life force” or intellegence within each person that is also found in all living things. It is this “life force” that does the healing, not just the chemisry of the plant. The Nature’s Pharmacy course captures this difference.

Don’t miss out on the healing riches that Nature’s Pharmacy provides for every human problem.

Instruction Materials Include:

• A 314 page Nature’s Pharmacy course manual
• Two DVDs — Herbal Energetics and Basic Plant Chemistry
• Herb sample kit with packets of herbs representing different energetic classifications of herbs.
• Student Study Guide with test and homework assignments
• Certificate of Completion and credit towards CHC certification upon submission of completed and correct homework.

Nature’s Pharmacy may be purchased separately for $247
and is included in the complete CHC program.