Most people want simple ways to remedy their health concerns long before they require expensive or risky procedures, or costly pharmaceuticals with side effects and unacceptable risks. Few people realize ancient health methods provided effective results, often as simple as minor changes in foods consumed. Armagh Ireland had the world's first hospital, constructed by Queen Macha 2650 years ago, many centuries before hospitals existed elsewhere, to apply health remedies and therapies they knew worked.

So We Want Medicinal Teas, Seeds, Salves, Elixirs, Poultice Ingredients, Lotions and Potions

used as folk medicines, particularly by Traditional Healers or Shamans to replicate the product uses from that ancient time to present. Not surprisingly some Traditional Healers have expressed concerns of not wanting their knowledge exploited by big pharma without benefits coming back to them or their community. Protecting folk knowledge unduly provides no financial return to anyone, yet the sale of properly prepared and packaged products will benefit those producing the product. Withholding help from others in need is selfish. A simple way to solve the problem is to share the knowledge and products widely so the least expensive products and most effective therapies gain the biggest financial share. Those in the 'know' grow and harvest the product to benefit. The best presented first products in the marketplace often become best known. Some who think the solution is in protecting the knowledge via patents and intellectual properties have been infected by a legal system that makes money from 'defending' your rights, not always successfully, while others are benefitting from the knowledge and making related products available. It's worth noting, Elias Howe, the man who invented the sewing machine as a result of his dreams, profitted little from it while Isaac Singer after stealing his idea and exploiting it, did. Howe took Singer to court however the US judicial system favored the person who made it commercially viable by awarding Howe a mere $5 per machine. He died soon after, broken financially and in spirit by a judicial system he thought would protect his patent, which it did, just barely.

Also, few plants are so unique that no other plant or variety has that medicinal property or it is not growing somewhere else too. Like prophecies, health care answers shown via dreams were to be shared, not treated as proprietary. Those answers are for the benefit of all and sharing the answers is the best way of showing the Creator offers Living help and advice. Simple remedies such as a component in willow bark, used frequently and known by the term, aspirin, is just one such remedy that traces its origins to ethnobotanicals. Its use is shared both locally and commercially. The most expedient, the aspirin pill, is used most often. Now it's made by many companies who compete to keep it affordable for people too busy to obtain willow bark and brew it.

In the USA alone $286.5 billion was spent on pharmaceuticals in 2007. Medicinal plant sales, with the help of shamans and their knowledge of plants, can help lift impoverished peoples into far more productive lives with a fraction of that revenue. Medicinal plant use is popular in Western nations. It pales in comparison to China’s million+ tonnes of medicinal plants used a year. Herbal products and an approach to their discovery and application are still in use, often in isolated parts of the world. God-given knowledge may die with a person who has it, yet the Source which first supplied that information can supply it to anyone in a situation where it is needed. It is up to us to keep record and reapply that knowledge in similar situations for everyone's health benefits. That part is within the mandate of www.inntherapy.com to keep those records.

The Gran Canaria Declaration of 2000 states the urgency for a plant conservation program. It has support in 150 countries. No economic impetus went with it, such as we are advocating nor anything significant since then, even though the World Health Organization stated that 80% of the world relies on plants for their primary health care. It also stated that up to 2/3 of the known 320,000+[1] vascular plants could be at risk due to being “threatened by population growth, deforestation, habitat loss, destructive development, over consumption of resources, the spread of alien invasive species and agricultural expansion. Further loss of plant diversity is predicted through genetic erosion and narrowing of the genetic basis of many species.” The solution therefore is not in academia, or governments even if they are cooperative and supportive; it is in a cooperative business working hand in hand with people motivated to remedy the problem who see the potential for financial gain in one area to offset the expenses in another. Plants at risk can be propagated and/or moved to other favorable locations to minimize the risk of loss. What pays for this? People needing the plant or its products. Bureaucrats and politicians are sadly remiss in extending a hand especially when it comes to spending tax monies and when less than half of them see a connection to what is urgently needed or think other matters have a higher priority. So our program is designed to solve life-form and environmental concerns with minimal, largely non-monetary support from government, parliament or big business concerns.

Our interests include ancient food crops especially ones grown in extreme conditions of drought, frost and salt tolerance. We also want coffee and tea grown at higher elevations, and cacao. As foods they may not have the same appeal or apparent value as medicinal plants, however they are important. Some ancient plants are relevant to more extreme weather conditions due during the next two decades, or are desirable market items.

Cooperatives:

To obtain those medicines we can work with anyone, however due to requiring reliability, quality of product knowledge and cautions plus reliable service and communication we will lean heavily towards corporate entities to supply products, such as based community cooperatives participating in shared responsibilities and ecological (reserve) projects or similar non-profit beneficial efforts. That way the work does not all fall on one or two people who in turn often do not share the profits or benefits or it only goes into the trader's pockets. Where 'you' is mentioned below, consider this to be your team or co-op as well as Traditional Healers, Shamans etc.

Proof:

Next we want you to prove yourself, reliability and competency. Preceding any proof of a medicinal plant is a diagnosis so an ailment can be determined prior to its being treated. This applies to medicinal or therapeutic solutions, not ones based on stimulations of the mind to act in the body's own best interests. Folk remedies passed down from a relative aren't enough unless you have proof, such as a following of people who accept that this remedy works or you can show it does. If the remedy is one 'shown' to you, we require if possible that you articulate in writing what was shown. We grade your proof so anyone else needing health remedies can, by the number level assigned to it, know the likelihood of success by using it. This rating will also reflect in the subsequent sales of your remedy or health product. It can be changed by performance and results.

If your remedy includes the use of plants you must be able to identify the plants to us, (as several pictures of each plant, flowers, leaves, roots, seeds etc) their name, habitat, and if possible their botanical name.

To supply the seeds, teas etc. we have three main options:

1. You harvest, clean, prepare and package the product and ship or mail them from your location according to the buyer's order (this way may be pricy and/or slow and not always reliable or timely in delivery and transfer of funds not always easy unless you have a Paypal account.) If you choose this option find what you can send in weight so it remains within the first or second level of postal cost (most seed pkgs will be .05 - 5 grams). Surface mail is often too slow even if you are on the same continent. OR,

2. You harvest, clean, prepare and send the products to us. We warehouse them and fulfill orders that you get from buyers. (You get the price you want on what sells, we dropship; meaning we warehouse, possibly package, fulfill the order and ship for you). This is the best way for most products to start. OR,

3. You harvest, clean, prepare and ship the seeds or ingredients to us. We package, store and mail them to buyers. They remain your product until they sell. (This option may not be possible for some teas, and a few seeds so we need to know your products and ingredients from samples, as to their quality etc beforehand, like from the preceding option.) You will be identified on the envelope as the supplier either directly or indirectly along with other relevant information, and an accompanying instruction sheet. Supply levels should be kept to 90 days to one year maximum. Once your product is proven we can pay you for it on receipt.

Canada, where our first warehouses are located, has restrictions devised and advocated largely by 'special interests' then imposed by our representative parliament, without the majority consent of voters as to the loss of their sovereign rights and personal responsibilities for their own health. This abolishment or prohibition by over-regulating herbal remedies, by claiming safety concerns or possible abuses by a few, has been done in a manner depriving adults of their right to choose. As a result of imposed regulations some plant based products, extracts and combinations cannot be imported here. We will not knowingly violate our laws or regulations even if they are unfair, unjust or imposed without majority informed consent. 'Prohibition' laws imposed by lawmakers can be modified by parliament or struck down if it is the will of the majority or by the judiciary. Prohibition does not work.

Standards:

Your packaging must meet basic sanitary standards, labeled (bilingual as a minimum and must include one or more of the six languages the UN uses officially; English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic, as to what it is, its use and an invoice accompany it. We will need to know what that amount is (and average seed count) or how many treatments with 'tea' or other remedy that are required, and how long the product will last before its effects or germination are unacceptably low.