Deep Sleep®
America's best selling herbal sleep aid 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007*

ChlorOxygen® Chlorophyll Concentrate America's best selling chlorophyll 2005, 2006, 2007*

Singer's Saving Grace®
America's best selling herbal throat spray 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007*

*SPINS Data Health/Natural Food Stores<

Keeping You Healthy. Naturally.

My name is Daniel Gagnon, and I am the Medical Herbalist and owner of Herbs, Etc. As a child and as a young adult, I suffered from eczema, asthma and allergies. My journey back to health is the driving force that motivates me to develop herbal medicines and share the benefits of natural healing with other individuals. 

Today, the number one goal of my practice is to provide my clients with therapeutic results. This goal dovetails with my life’s work to provide effective herbal medicines that contain only natural, beneficial ingredients and that have little or no side effects.

It all starts with our retail store in Santa Fe
Herbs, Etc. operates a retail store selling bulk herbs,herbal remedies, supplements and essential oils. The store’s primary mission is to offer herbal medicine information and remedies to the Santa Fe community. It is also a research and development center. Many of Herbs, Etc.’s products are created and tested here.

Behind the retail counter are over 250 kinds of bulk liquid herbal extracts. From these, products that are specific to clients’ health needs are custom-formulated. For example, Singer’s Saving Grace® was created while working with performers at the Santa Fe Opera. Singers would come to the store complaining of sore throats and, over a four-year period, many different formulations were created. At the end of the fourth summer,one formula was requested more often than the others. This formulation became known as Singer’s Saving Grace®. Today, it is available in classic or alcohol free formulas.

From the field to the plant
Once a formulation has been tested and approved, the manufacturing process begins. At Herbs, Etc. each herbal medicine product starts with fresh or dried whole herbs. Most of the herbs are grown on family-owned certified organic farms. These herbs are grown throughout the United States in the climate and ecosystems in which they thrive. Not only are the herbs certified organic but the Herbs, Etc. laboratory is also a certified organic manufacturing facility.

When fresh is best: herbs, flowers, leaves, buds
Some herb parts, such as flowers, leaves and buds, must be processed while fresh (undried) to retain their full medicinal qualities. This is a critical step since essential oils and other fragile constituents are lost, evaporated or destroyed in the drying process. Fresh herbs are picked and shipped in refrigerated containers overnight. The herbs are received the very next morning. Once released from quality control, they are immediately ground to break the cell walls and extracted while fresh and vibrant. The ground herbs yield what is called a “mush”. 

Other manufacturers cut the herbs into big pieces and put them in an alcohol/water solution. This is a problem because whole herbs absorb the liquid, but, since their cell walls are intact, they do not release the active constituents. 

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