Mark Blumenthal of the American Botanical Council has made a career of tracking how medicinal herbs are adulterated. Here are three commonly adulterated herbs and the substances they’re cut with—if you’re sourcing these botanicals, do your homework!
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The black cohosh drawing is inaccurate. Black cohosh has separate peduncles sprouting from the lower plant growth that provide the flower. Not like the drawing showing just another 'branch' from upper plant that blooms.
The skullcap photo is completely inaccurate as an overwhelming majority of the skullcap that is sold and use is the 'herb', not the roots shown here.
As a media company I hope New Hope will make more efforts in the future for accurate representations of important plants that are referencing in their articles.