The American Botanical Pharmacy                                                                            Page 8  
  WE USE THE BEST HERBS
WHY MY HERBAL FORMULAE
it's as simple as 1, 2, 3...
REASON #1: WE USE THE BEST HERBS
OUR HERBS ARE WHAT GOD INTENDED AND NATURE PROVIDED FOR YOU!
My company, American Botanical Pharmacy uses American Organically Grown Herbs and American Wild Harvested Herbs. It just makes good common sense to use the healing plants that grow in our own backyard. These are the healing plants that God and Nature have provided for you and intended you to use. Don't let anyone tell you that all the good herbs or all the powerful herbs grow in China or India - hogwash - let the Asians use Asian herbs, but the best herbs for your health are the healing plants that grow in your own geographical environment. Over 90% of the herbs I use in my formulae grow within a one or two day's drive from your own house.
OUR HERBS ARE STRONGER!
The reason I use only Organically Grown and Wild Harvested Botanicals is simple, they are STRONGER. This has been known for years. Because better care is taken in feeding these plants the natural nutrients they require. Organically Grown food, herbs, and plants have 4 to 10 times more nutrition and healing plant chemicals (phytochemicals) in them.
        To me it's simple, that's a 4 to 10 times better chance you have of getting well or preventing disease. Our family of Wild Harvesters are the best and most conscious in the industry. They never strip the land and if the plant is in short supply, like Ginseng for example, they replant it. Wild Harvested means going out into the field where the plant has chosen to live and pick the best of the best, the strongest, healthiest, most vital plants which in turn will give you 1 most strength, health and vitality too.
OUR HERBS ARE CLEAN AND PURE!
Almost every herbal product sold in America uses imported commercial grade herbs. Why would anyone import herbs from the other side of the world that naturally grow right here in the United States? There is only one reason, foreign herbs are dirt cheap. These herbs are imported from India, China, Egypt, Mexico, wherever, where slaves people get paid $15 a year to pick them. I pay American Organic farmers $40 to $50 a pound for the finest organic Habanero Cayenne peppers when I could buy them from China or India, like all of the other companies do for 40 or 50 CENTS a pound. All I can say is you get what you pay for. These cheap, dirty, imported herbs are not only weak in strength, but what they are carrying on them can make you real sick. These countries have uncontrolled use of pesticides, insecticides and chemical fertilizers, many still even use DDT. These herbs are very often contaminated with E. coli bacteria from human waste and unclean conditions. I ask you. if when you travel to these countries and you can't eat the food or drink the water without getting deathly ill, then why would you use the herbs from these countries when you're sick? It is a good way to make yourself even sicker.
If this isn't bad enough, most manufacturers sterilize their herbs with toxic gas
When imported herbs finally reach American shores, they are almost always put into Ethylene Oxide Gas Chambers to kill bacteria. Ethylene Oxide treatment is standard with all the major herb importers and suppliers and its residues can stay on the plant for over a year. EO, as the industry refers to it, is proven to cause Cancer, Leukemia, mutate unborn children and even cause abortions, kill liver and nerve cells, do I need to go on? This is a dirty little secret of the herbal manufacturers and they hope you won't ever find out. A few years back I wrote an expose on the EO gassing horror few magazines and newsletters. You would think that the American herbal councils and associations would have addressed this issue, but instead I was told by friends that they had closed door meetings to discuss what to do about Dr. Schulze, the whistle blower, who is hurting the herbal product industry I don't give a damn about the herbal product industry, my allegiance is to my customers and their health!
          Recently, many herbs sold as Organic in America have been impregnated with Ethylene Oxide toxic gas too, and they can still be called Organic, after all they were grown organically. Recently one of our Organic suppliers told us that we were the only company they know of that will only use non-gassed herbs, and ALL of the other herbal manufacturers requested E.O. gassed herbs.
           Our herbs are organically grown on pristine, clean, certified organic American farms from the cool, rich, damp forests of the Pacific Northwest to the fertile Mississippi bottom land to the Florida Panhandle. They are shade dried and many are shipped to us overnight, fresh and in wet burlap. We also support transitional farmers who are in the organic, certification process. These farmers and their families need to be supported for making the right choice. We spend the majority of every year finding the best farms, the most premium herbs, the cream of the crop. Our herbs are the richest highest quality and most potent herbs available anywhere in the world, and they are never gassed with poison
GOVERNMENT WARNING: None of the above statements have been evaluated or approved by the Food and Drug Administration or the American Medical Association.