[MPWG] Mission statement??

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No disrespect intended to anyone for sharing their ideas, but hats off to 
Myron for pointing out the at-risk status of goldenseal -- though it has not yet 
achieved "endangered" status -- in my state at any rate it carries years too 
late to make much of a difference the vague status "vulnerable."
A suggestion to our colleague from CATIE, and others who are dismayed by the 
volume of messages -- why not sign up to receive this in digest form, one 
daily email?  I know for many of my friends in Honduras this would be a nightmare. 
 Email is often shared by interoffice staff and a secretary may be printing 
out every message...some people are paying a substantial fee per minute on line.
The excitement evidenced by so much participation from people who ordinarily 
lurk in the sidelines generated over a couple of simple herbal questions is 
very telling I think.  This is the tall task being attempted, Myron, the hope 
for sustainability for herbal medicines by discussing "their use within a living 
herbal tradition/philosophy which runs counter to conventional drug use."  It 
is no more inappropriate to prescribe over the net than it is to prescribe 
after a 7 minute office visit where as much information is gleaned about the 
patient as I have about the dentally-infected woman.  Centuries ago Nicolaus 
Culpepper was arrested and jailed for writing the People's Herbal.  I'll not cower 
to a profession that after all these years still won't admit that most 
illness can be taken care of at home with common weeds.
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