FOMENTATION OF THE HERBOLARIUM
- Our country is left behind in the material of fomenting and promoting the culture of herbs and natural health in relation to other countries. The State should be prepared to help in the development of natural health in our country. In order to achieve this, we must be able to count on competent personnel and the funding needed for this proposal. The investigation, herbal diffusion, programs of healthy living and technical assistance for the national herbal activity should be concentrated in a Institute of Natural Health (INH) possibly dependent upon the Ministry of Health, or as an autonomous entity of the State.
- The cultivators, producers, collectors and packagers of herbs should be helped by the State. The State should provide technical assistance that is necessary for this activity to be developed without restriction in all its productive manifestations: recollection, cultivation, drying, storage, mixing and packaging of fresh plants, dehydrated, entered, triturated, fractioned, powdered, macerated in liquids, aromatic oils, floral elixirs, vegetable drinks, encapsulated or in tablets, weather they be synthetic or pharmaceutical. To restrict the Herbalists to functions of simple artesian packing is to deny the possibility of their development. To deny the rights of free exercise of their activities in the herb culture, is to deny the option of natural health.
