Herbs are plants, bushes, or trees. They grow best wild in their native habitats. Ancient cultures used herbs to bring out the flavors in their foods and to heal their bodies from illnesses. They used the appropriate parts of the plants (roots, bark, seeds, fruit, flowers, leaves, stalks) corresponing with the desired remedy.

Herbs can be naturally processed into various forms depending on the use.

Apple Cottage herbs are in dried form (for tea remedies), distilled (for essential oils), liquid (for extracts), and in homeopathic pellets.

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Differences between herbs and prescription drugs:

Herbs work in conjunction with the symptoms to resolve the root causes of imbalances in the body and eliminate illness over the long term. They work with the body's immune system to help it do its job of natural healing. In some cases, herbs help relieve the symptoms while the healing is taking place. More often they work "behind the scenes" quietly assisting the body's natural processes. After a course of herb therapy, the disease is gone, the body's imbalances are cured, and you forget you were ever sick. Prescription drugs work to suppress symptoms but leave the disease intact where it can become more serious and eventually chronic.

Herbs must work in concert with correct food choices and a balanced lifestyle. Herbs do not have the ability to fight against poor food choices and a stressful lifestyle. Everything we put into our mouths goes to work in our bodies, and has predictable health consequences. One cannot eat poorly and then expect to make up for it by taking herbal vitamin and mineral supplements.

The body heals based on the following Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. Each element corresponds to specific organs and body functions. If there is a deficiency in the Wood Element, for example (meaning the body functions that correspond to Wood), then you strengthen it by strengthening the Water Element (meaning the body functions that correspond to Water). This is because WOOD is created by WATER. (Water a tree to make it grow.) If there is an excess in the Wood Element, then you control it by strengthening the Metal Element. This is because a metal axe chops down a tree. This is ancient aboriginal knowledge known and derived from observing nature. All Tribal and primitive peoples have come to this conclusion.

The Basis of T:  This is the group of herbs that forms the base for all the daily teas.  It is a blood cleanser and detoxifier to help your body cleanse itself of the stressful toxins in our air and food.  The Basis of T blend includes: Dandelion, Milk Thistle, Nettles and Horsetail.