I was fairly new to the study of plant medicine when I was introduced to herbalist Sade Musa, who leads the community education and healing project Roots of Resistance. Part of my commitment to ...

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Western medicine revolves around the notion of treating symptoms — something that usually requires drugs or a medical procedure of some sort. Yet before the precepts of Western medicine were ...

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Lucretia VanDyke, author of “African American Herbalism: A Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions,” decided to listen to her plants years ago and has never looked back. Since then, she has dived ...