How I was introduced to herbal medicine...

I started an interest in herbal medicine in 1992 when our oldest of our 4 children was a baby. She had reoccurring health problems that doctors couldn’t get under control. Their answer was massive doses of medicine that compromised her immune system and then surgery. As young parents, we wanted to put our faith into the doctors’ hands, but when I started to feel that they were mechanically going through the motions to treat our baby, something inside me shouted, “there has to be another way!”

As fate goes, I noticed a herbal heath food shop as I was driving home with our daughter from an emotional doctors appointment. At this point I was open for any options. The wonderful woman who owned the shop took a look at Jessika and started gathering a couple of herbal remedies. Before I left her shop she gave me some quick instructions to get Jessika back to health. I had two weeks to get Jessika healthy before my next doctors’ appointment, when they wanted to schedule surgery. For two weeks I diligently followed her instructions, we saw great improvements, but was it enough. The day of the appointment arrived and I nervously keep silent as the doctor was checking Jessika. At this point a little doubt started creeping in me as he looked at me and said, “what did you do to your daughter?” I felt the blood drain from my face and asked him, “why?” Then he said, and I’ll never forget these words because they changed my life, “your daughters infection is completely gone, she is totally healthy, there’s no need for surgery.” I started to cry in relief as I told him what I did. He looked at me and told me to “NEVER take Jessika’s health into my own hands, because I didn’t understand the human body and how to treat it.” I thanked him, gathered my baby and we left. He’ll never know how he effected the direction of my life. From that day forward I had insatiable appetite for learning everything I could about the human body and how to treat it with herbal medicine.

In 2000 I found the “Australasian College of Health Sciences,” an accredited on-line course that taught in detail the human body and how to retain optimal health using herbal medicine. It was a very challenging course, in August 2003 I graduated with honors, I loved every minute of it!

The reason I’m telling my story is so you’ll get a since on how important herbal medicine is to my family and me. At this time I’m not working in this field outside of my home, but I’m always creating new formulas to treat and heal human (& animal) ailments.

I originally formulated this ointment specifically for stubborn, temperamental and “fickle” baby bottoms, when our boys were babies. I soon discovered that this ointment was very effective on a wide range of uses for the entire family (pets too).

Thank you,

Lori Bell M.H.Hons,

(Master Herbalist with Honors)