Sourcing Herbs: Quality and Sensory Checks

This week on Herbal Radio, host Lucretia Van Dyke is joined by the founder of American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and man behind the modern monograph: Roy Upton. Join us as we explore:

• The purpose and importance of plant monographs
• Integrating traditional medicine into primary healthcare
• Learning about plants before the digital age
• The rise and dangers of AI herbalism books
• Roy's adventures hunting for old herbal books
• How AHP monographs influence legislature on a global scale

As always, we thank you for joining us on another botanical adventure and are so honored to have you tag along with us on this ride. Remember, we want to hear from you! Your questions, ideas, and who you want to hear from are an invaluable piece to our podcast. Email us at podcast@mountainroseherbs.com to let us know what solutions we should uncover next within the vast world of herbalism.

🎥 Check out the video interview to this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6gOU9JJnFQ4

Learn more about Roy below!

🌿 Roy Upton founded the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) in 1995 to bring the knowledge base of herbal medicine into one monograph system as a way to allay consumer and practitioner fears about using herbal medicines and to rebuild our cultural knowledge base about the value of herbal medicine to individual, community, societal, and environmental health. Roy serves as Executive Director and Editor of AHP.

Check out these resource Roy mentioned in the episode:

🌱 ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP)

📖 Christopher Hobb's Rare Book Collection

🤖 The Danger of AI Herbalism Books on Amazon

📓 AHPA Botanical Safety Handbook

🌎 Global Alliance for Integrative Health & Medicine (GAIHM)

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🌻 Lucretia VanDyke began her herbalism journey as a little girl mixing herbs, clays, and muds on her grandparents' farm. Today, Lucretia VanDyke has been in the herbal industry for over 20 years. As a holistic educator, speaker, herbalist, ceremonialist, spiritual light coach, intuitive energetic & reiki practitioner, diviner, storyteller, artist, and world traveler, Lucretia has accumulated over 3000 hours of training. She has studied with indigenous healers and some of the greatest minds of our time. Lucretia has been a holistic esthetician & healing arts practitioner for over a decade focusing on integrating indigenous healing rituals, plant spirit medicine, and meditation into modern-day practice. Lucretia brings her vivacious spirit and message of self-love in her work to inspire others to embrace their unique beauty and purpose. She is currently collecting stories throughout the south while working on expanding her BIPOC community healing arts and herbal education program.

📱 Find Lucretia on social media! @lucretia.vandyke

💻 Lucertia's website: https://www.lucretiavandyke.com

📖 Lucretia's Book, African American Herbalism: https://mountainroseherbs.com/african-american-herbalism

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