HEALING POWER OF NATURE N ature provides a bountiful (unbridge) pharmacopoeia through it's plant life. Plant were humankind's original medicines, and even with the birth of modern medicine plants remain an important source of medicinal help. I n all traditional culture, certain members accrue ( emerge) specialized knowledge of medicinal plants and their applications. These are the healers, midwives, shamans, and other individual who dispence cures and remedies through their understanding of healing plants and their applications. Women in their roles as mothers and grandmothers also command this knowledge, some times in the form of "Old wives"remedies that, more often than not, have a firm basis in herbal medicine. T oday countless people still use medicinal plants, whether in traditional ways, in alternative and complementary medicine, or as building blocks for new research and innovative drugs. Pharmaceutical companies and ...