CANNABIS IS GOOD MEDICINE

I love the idea of course but the reality of amateur pharmacology is slightly less euphoric. Echinacea, for instance, just one of the items cited above, has sadly proven NOT be effective in actual research. (Unfortunately, that research came across my desk a year after I'd gone to great lengths to plants lots of Echinacea.)
Nothing wrong with herbal teas of course, but I wouldn't count on being able to individually grow, process, and make medically safe and dosage consistent medicine for yourself or your family. However, if you make great strides in that endeavor, please let me know; I'm always eager to learn.

I agree we can grow many of the beneficial herbs for help but not to rely on them for treatment for one important reason! WARNING!
No one can determine the exact dosage in every leaf, seed, or flower.(at home without the proper tools.)

In reference: I purchased the first Rodale Press Herb book back in the 70's. That edition tauted Lobelia as an expectorant combined with skunk cabbage, Cayenne pepper and honey or molasses to be taken at night; page 77. Granted it does indicate on pages 495-6 that it is under investigation and the subject of controversy and in large does poisonous, hence danger of experimentation.

Even so if one thinks they are giving someone a small dose by giving a little of the seed or plant this can be misleading because every plant's concentration is different depending on soil, watering, chemical treatment and other growing conditions.
My sister was taking her son to an herbalist as a young child. The herbalist was giving him lobelia...for asthma. This kid was so small a strong wind would have blown him away... I told her do more research on this drug, yes, drug.
I told her the 2nd Rodale Herb book had on one page to use it to treat asthma as a stimulant or a tobacco substitute, page 205.

Yet unless you read page 364 you would not notice the UNSAFE indication at the beginning of the section on Lobelia. On this page it actually tells the reader Lobelia is a powerful poison and doesn't belong on the home medicine shelf.

Tell that to all the kids given this poison for asthsma... my nephew could have been given the same plant amount with staggering differences in potency. He could have died!
My sister promptly quit the herbalist.
We still use herbs in our home remedies, because of our Shawnee heritage but one must research many references before using them. Some herbs are very dangerous.

An elderly couple were found dead after having their usual herbal tea. one of them had mistaken the herb used and used foxglove by accident. Foxglove was the source of digitalis/ Lanoxin a heart medication that is used to slow and strengthen the heart. It caused these two bradycardia then death.

Yes, if you want a drug, you take your plant, smash it up, crush it, etc, run it through water if either the liquid will contain or the mash, or a solvent for the same results. Maybe you have to force what you want into binding with something else, that you will later get rid of.
Or maybe the something that you bind with, goes together to make your product.
You might have to use an acid to melt away unwanted material or some method of making a solution - which is then distilled down.
Filter it - maybe with another distillation - dry it out to your powder.
Get everything out but what you're after. It's you, a few chemicals and a hammer. Good luck.

Homeopathy is a system of therapy based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself.

Homeopathy was invented by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was both refined and popularized by the American physician James Tyler Kent. Homeopathy is based on the theory that each naturally occurring element, plant, and mineral compound will, when ingested or applied, result in certain symptoms. Hahnemann believed that, by diluting these substances in a standardized manner, one could reach the true essence of that substance. Hahnemann described this process of dilution as "potentizing" (German: "potenziert") the substance. These dilute amounts could then be used to treat the very symptoms they were known to produce.

Hahnemann and his students approached their treatments in a holistic way, meaning that the whole of the body and spirit is dealt with, not just the localised disease. Hahnemann himself spent extended periods of time with his patients, asking them questions that dealt not only with their particular symptoms or illness, but also with the details of their daily lives. It is also suggested that the gentle approach of homeopathy was a reaction to the violent forms of medicine of the day, which included techniques such as bleeding.

According to homeopathy, symptoms are the body's way of fighting disease. Homeopathy teaches that symptoms are to be encouraged, by prescribing a "remedy" in minuscule doses that in large doses would produce the same symptoms seen in the patient. These remedies are meant to stimulate the immune system, helping to cure the illness, according to homeopathy.

These products work without letting big pharma profit, try them you will not be dissapointed.

Drug companies use lies to make people think that natural remedies are ineffective.

Open your eyes folks...A large amount of prescription drugs use an active ingredient derived from plants

Go look up "red yeast rice" if you dont believe me
look up drug company Wyeth's attempt to Ban anything with B-6 in it
and dont forget about the Poppy, it makes the Codeine and Morphine we use