One of the core principals setting Village-Herbalist.com apart from many other sources of herbal knowledge is our commitment to providing information based on legitimate science.

The principal of basing our information on scientifically demonstrated benefits is not intended to denigrate perspectives gained from folk remedies or individual experience. Folk remedies and individual experiences are useful as a starting point for developing hypotheses.  But the Village-Herbalist.com method is to then take these hypotheses and determine if they can be validated using scientific rigor.

To further this goal, we recommend reviewing materials at these sites:

US National Institute of Health:     https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/