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Part botanist, part detective, part witch your grandmother secretly trusted more than her doctor.
means A person who studies and uses plants for medicinal or healing purposes, often preparing remedies from herbs.
from From "herb" (via Old French "erbe" from Latin "herba," meaning grass or green plant) plus the agent suffix "-ist" — literally one who deals in herbs. The "-ist" tag, borrowed from Greek "-istes" through Latin and French, marks the practitioner: as a florist tends flowers, the herbalist tends the green pharmacy. The word for the practice took shape in English centuries ago, long before "botanist" arrived to claim the lab-coat respectability.
- ancient resume
- Predates pharmacies by several thousand years
- plant fluent
- Knows hundreds of species by leaf and smell
- drug origin
- Aspirin, morphine, and quinine all came from plants
- willow trick
- Chewing willow bark eased pain long before aspirin
- poison wisdom
- The dose separates the medicine from the murder
rosemary gladstar — american herbalist who founded the california school of herbal studies in 1978 and has trained thousands of practitioners
james duke — usda botanist and ethnobotanist who compiled the phytochemical database documenting medicinal properties of over 7,000 plants
david hoffmann — british herbalist and author of 'the herbal handbook for home and health' used globally since 1988