Wednesday 21 September 2011

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Amplify’d from www.herbcompanion.com

Plant Medicine: Herbal Extraction Methods

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Kristen Myers, lab manager for Turtle ­Island Herbs in Boulder, Colorado, pours an oil solvent, called a men­struum, onto fresh arnica. The oil and herb will be mixed, then left to soak.

In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, three
herbal product manufacturers are hard at work drawing medicinal
compounds from plants. Two of these companies are less than a mile
apart in Boulder, Colorado, and a third is in nearby Louisville.
But the roots of their methods and philosophies are very
different.

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