Endangered Herbs

Local merchants fear that healing plants could be facing extinction

Many medicinal plants are facing unprecedented threats to their survival. Leading herbalists fear that the alternative medicine boom, while increasing awareness of the healing power of plants, is contributing to their demise. Unsustainable exploitation of best-selling herbs may now threaten wild populations of market favorites like goldenseal, echinacea, American ginseng and black cohosh.   More

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