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<DIV>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."</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV></BODY></HTML>