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Nancy: I would encourage people to start learning how to identify medicinal plants and they are everywhere. What we have here in the Rocky Mountains, it will be different that is available in Texas or Florida or California. So if we can learn to identify them, we can make our own medicines. We have treated ourselves with the plants for thousands of years. It's only been about the last hundred, maybe 125, 150 years that we have been introduced to pharmaceuticals. And the chemicals are often petroleum based.