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In a message dated 10/5/00 9:07:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

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How many patients do you see per week? Would you consider them

mainstream folks or people already involved in alternative health or

lifestyles? Also, I assume you have had access to your school

pharmacy

during this time. Only a school has enough turnover to really ensure

fresh bulk herbs. No solo practice could possibly do that.

 

Reluctantly Realistic (aka todd)

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Dear

 

I DO have " access " to my school's pharmacy, but I have had my own pharmacy

since 1997. My herbs are at least as fresh as the school's, possibly because

my supplier (Mayway) provides such excellent quality. You only have to smell

the Xin Yi Hua to notice the difference. And even in the school's pharmacy,

there are many herbs that are rarely used! Qing Dai, for example: one pound

could last forever -- but I have not noticed it change in quality. Do you

have cooking spices in your cupboard that have been there a year and are

still good?

 

The herbs that are used often, even in my small practice, are turned over

quickly (at least once a month) -- I order in quantities of one pound of each

item, and if I occasionally have to throw something out because it got bugs,

or seemed unfresh, that is a small price to pay for having my own herb

pharmacy. Some of my folks are mainstream, as you put it, and some are

already interested in herbs, but if I prescribe herbs, they take them. I also

fill prescriptions from other practitioners, and I have herb students doing

lab time in my pharmacy and taking samples, all of which helps keep my herbs

current. I can't imagine why Z'ev says he lost thousands of dollars on his

pharmacy. My average cost is $6.00 per pound, and that translates to about $2

per bag, and if I sell for $6 per bag, I can afford to throw out old herbs

once in a while if I have to. Last thing I had to throw out was Da Huang, and

it wasn't bad, it just wasn't as dense and fragrant as I like. I am very

particular about the quality of my herbs.

 

Julie

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>so you would think. and how many folks do you know who can cook stew

>or soup anymore?

 

What do people eat then??? Can they be helped by herbs in a long term if

they cannot cook food for themselves? Food is, apart from the polluted air

most of us breathe, our source of energy. Now I am shocked. So many people

cannot cook any more? Then learning how to cook would be the first step to

health, not going to the doctor.

Karin

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--- Karin Bischof <karinbischof wrote:

 

> most of us breathe, our source of energy. Now I am shocked. So many people

> cannot cook any more? Then learning how to cook would be the first step to

> health, not going to the doctor.

 

Since I am one of them, please let me put in a plug for the disabled. We

find it VERY difficult to cook anything - need to do very simple things and

many of us need to minimize our exposure to stoves (e.g. we can't feel pain,

hot or cold so the danger of burning ourselves - and not knowing it - is

high). Thus. to additonally cook herbs is an added chore and increases our

risk of exposure to stoves. If we are to use herbs, we have to find ways to

minimize that exposure.

 

 

 

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