We have been marketed to, that natural medicines come as tablets in small bottles. Not much different to pharmaceutical medicines really, in terms of how we take them. Next to the ibuprofen or aspirin in our home medicine cabinet is vitamin C or a Blackmore's cold and flu support supplement.

Taking a handful of supplements every day is not a wholistic approach. Living plants carry life energy. The Indians might call it Prana, the Chinese Qi. I tend to call it Life Energy.

Do you know what echinacea tastes like- how it tingles your tongue? Do you know what the turmeric plant looks like? How beautiful the ancient ginkgo trees are in the autumn in Japan?