Who to trust...Since the Herb and Supplement industry is unregulated in the US. Here are some retail brands that I can confidently recommend.
A Sampling of Trusted Brands of Herbs and Supplements
Herbs:
o Ayurceutics
o Banyan
o Equinox (Wildcrafted and Homegrown in Ohio)
o Four Elements (Homegrown Wisconsin…excellent salves)
o Frontier
o Fungi Perfecti (Olympia, WA) (medicinal mushrooms)
o Gaia (Farmed in Asheville, NC)
o Galen’s Way (Hand crafted w/ professional standards)
o Heartsong Farm (Homegrown, New Hampshire)
o Herbalist and Alchemist
o Herb Pharm
o Jarrow
o MediHerb (only through practitioners)
o Mountain Rose
o Mushroom Harvest (Athens Ohio)(lovely Ohio grown medicinal mushrooms)
o Nature’s Way
o Oregon Wild Harvest
o Pacific Botanicals
o Planetary
o Scientific Botanicals
o Simplers
o Source Naturals
o Sugar Hill Botanicals (Homegrown, New Hampshire)
o Threshold
o Wakanaga
o Woodland Essence (rare Wildcrafted products from the North woods)
o Vital Botanicals
Vitamins & Supplements, Homeopathic & Flower Essences:
o Boiron
o Bach Flower
o Carlson’s
o Innate
o Jarrow
o New Chapter & Nordic Naturals
o Pioneer
o Rainbow Light
o Standard Process
o Trace Mineral (seaweed based supplements)
Specific Products Geo often recommends:
o Ayurceutics: Boswelia
o Carlson’s Fish Super Omega Oils 1000 mg
o Carlson’s Super Cod Liver Oil
o Equinox: Garlic Mullein ear oil
o Four Elements: No X E Ma cream (for eczema)
o Innate: 1 daily w/o Fe
o Innate: B-complex
o Jarrow: Antioxidant Optimizer
o Jarrow: C+Olive Leaf 1000 mg
o Jarrow: Curcumin 95 18:1 concentrate
o Jarrow: Ginkgo 50:1
o Jarrow: Glucose Optimizer
o Jarrow: Quercetin 500 mg
o Jarrow: Kids Multi
o Jarrow: Vision Optimizer
o New Chapter Wholemega
o New Chapter Prostate 5LX
o Oregon Wild Harvest: Nettles freeze-dried
o Oregon Wild Harvest: St John’s Wort .3% hypericin 350 mg
o Planetary: Guggul compound
o Planetary: Hawthorn 450 mg lf/flwr 100 mg berry
o Planetary: Stevia liquid concentrate
o Source Naturals: concentrates of Elderberry, Black Cherry, Cranberry
o Threshold: Prostate Optimizer
o Trace Minerals: Trace Minerals
o Trace Minerals: Cal:Mag 1:1
o Wakanaga: Estro-Logic
