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the Business of Botanicals: Exploring Healing Promise Plant Medicines a Global Industry
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the Business of Botanicals: Exploring Healing Promise Plant Medicines a Global Industry
Current price: $29.95
Barnes and Noble
the Business of Botanicals: Exploring Healing Promise Plant Medicines a Global Industry
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Using herbal medicines to heal the body is an ancient practice, but in the twenty-first century, it is also a worldwide industry. Yet most consumers know very little about where those herbs come from and how they are processed into the many products that fill store shelves. In
, author Ann Armbrecht follows their journey from seed to shelf, revealing the inner workings of a complicated industry, and raises questions about the ethical and ecological issues of mass production of medicines derived from these healing plants, many of which are imperiled in the wild.
This is the first book to explore the interconnected web of the global herb industry and its many stakeholders, and is an invaluable resource for conscious consumers who want to better understand the social and environmental impacts of the products they buy.