There is a way of understanding health that predates clinics, diagnoses, and protocols. It lived in kitchens and gardens, in the hands of the grandmothers, folk healers & midwives, in the knowledge passed from one generation of women to the next about which plant eases a fever, which one calms a crying child, which one is steeped and drunk through pregnancy to build strong blood...This is the Wise Woman Tradition, and it is the foundation that the practice of herbalism has grown throughout human history.

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