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My name is Jackie Leeson-Schatz.  I have always had a love for plants and nature.  When we experience nature, and work with healing plants, it brings back the same enjoyment and wonder we felt with the world during our childhood.  We all have a unique relationship with the outdoors.  Whether you love sunbathing on the beach, hiking in the woods, white water rafting or watching birds from your porch, the outdoors has a power to transform your life.  It can provide you with beauty, adventure, peace, and spirituality.  Nature serves as a common ground to all life, and helps to humble us and remind us that we are all in this world together and interdependent.  


Using plants for medicine has been around as long as people.  We can look at tombs and burial sites and see that bodies were adorned with medicinal  and sacred plants.  And as we look from culture to culture, it is often the case that the same medicinal herbs were used for the same purposes, even when it seems impossible for these cultures to have had social contact.  In our own country, native plants were used extensively by the Native Americans.  Later in our history the women we called "witches" were actually Herbalists, and with their execution a part of the American herbal tradition died.  It was brought back again, by men this time, called the "eclectic" physicians of the late 19th and early 20th century.  This time around the use of herbs was well documented and recorded. Eventually there was a rebellion against herbal medicine and it fell out of popularity again, but during the 60's, along with so many other investigations into the natural and spiritual realm, it was reborn.  I believe the use of herbs from this time forth will only get stronger and more researched.  Today, more and more of our most popular remedies, from coffee to aspirin to life-saving drugs, are plant-based or are synthesized from plants.  Any hopes we have for cures of Cancer, Aids and other current epidemics, will most likely lie with plants. 


In my practice, ,I mostly use local, Northeastern herbs that are commonly found.  These are the herbs with which I have the most experience and intuitive guidance with. I organically source of wild-craft all of the herbs used in my clinical practice, skincare line, and extracts and teas.  My practice also incorporates diagnostic practices and energetic models of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda.  Pulse and tongue diagnosis, Ayurvedic massage, cupping and acupressure I find to be priceless tools in the treatment of unrest and imbalance (what physicians call disease.)


I am extremely proud of my Panacea Herbals skincare line that I have launched at the beginning of this year. I am now excepting both online and wholesale orders.  I also have a line of teas, herbal tinctures and extracts, and herbal salves and oils under the name Panacea Herbals that are sold online, locally at events, farmers markets and festivals, and wholesale.  Email me at PanaceaHerbals@gmail.com for more information.