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        A LETTER FROM Dr. RICHARD SCHULZE
  MY ABSOLUTE GOAL IS TO HELP YOU
  GET WELL AND STAY HEALTHY!

Dear Friends and Customers,

HONESTY IS MY REALITY

In the 1960's. I was dying from heart disease. So first off, you need to know that I am not some virgin sex counselor, preaching miracle healings while the worst thing I've personally experienced is a skin blemish. I know what it is like to be very sick, in pain and even dying.
The medical doctors and hospitals told me that unless I underwent gruesome open heart surgery, I would be dead before 20. I was scared to death, felt horrible and was growing weaker by the minute. I knew the doctors were right about my dying heart, but sawing and cracking my rib cage wide open, yanking my heart out and stabbing it with scalpels sounded frightening, horrific and insane.

I knew there must be another way, I had to suck it up, get tough and GET WELL. No one else could heal me. I had to discover how to heal myself. So, I ran out of the hospital, told the medical doctors to shove their scalpels and threw my prescription drugs in the trash. I set out on an intensive search for anything and verything.

natural that could heal my heart. As usual in my life, I got much, much more than I bargained for. Not only did I discover hundereds disco's hundreds of natural ways to heal my heart, but thousands of natural ways to heal my entire body, mind and spirit.
I also discovered hundreds of worthless natural healing fads and fairytales and wasted thousands of hard earn dollars on nutritional and herbal supplements that didn't work. Worse than that, my precious time was ticking away and I was getting weaker and sicker. Out of sheer desperation I decided to make my own herbal formulae. I had nothing to lose, I would either kill myself or cure myself.
I searched for the purest and strongest herbs and took them right into my kitchen where, with a blender and a few other crude kitchen tools, I made my own tonics by stuffing and cramming the canning jars to the very top. When your life is on the line, you don't skimp - you cram. I squeezed the murky herbal juices out with my bare hands through kitchen towels and started taking 10 times more than what the herbal experts said. Immediately I felt better, my heart rhythm was more regular and I had more energy. My home brewed herbal tonics worked better th anything I had bought in any store. I then modified, upgraded and intensified all the health programs and natural routines I was doing. Again, I was dying, I had nothing to lose. Within days I felt like a new person and the long and short of it is that in 3 years, my heart was healed!

In the 1970's I realized that my heart disease was my greatest blessing from God to discover my life's missi~ which is to educate people on how to heal themselves and their families naturally, without doctors, drugs and hospital So I trained to be a Medical Herbalist and Natural Doctor, and interned and apprenticed day and night with the natural doctors and herbalists of the last century. I eventually set up my first Natural Healing Clinic and manufactured all of my own herbal formulae right in the clinic's kitchen, because I knew that what was available didn't heal me, so it wasn't strong enough to help my patients either. In the late 1970's I started my first official herbal pharmacy. I had one goal in mind, make the STRONGEST and MOST EFFECTIVE herbal formulae possible