The Herb Guy (Steven Horne)

steven-zion.jpgHi, I'm Steven Horne, author, teacher, herbalist and natural healer.

I haven't been much of a blogger. I like to write articles and do webinars most of the time. Nevertheless, I created this special place on the website where I can post my thoughts and special messages from time to time. So permit me to ramble and rave here once in a while.

Change our Beliefs, Change our Life

I've been following some blogs on Tumblr account that discuss what are termed Social Justice Warriors, modern feminism and the men's right's movement. All of this has brought up a lot of emotions and memories of my own relationship struggles. I wa...

Vaccines: Risk versus Benefit

I've been sharing a lot of articles and links on FaceBook about vaccines primarily because I'm really concerned about the push to do away with parents legal rights to chose not to vaccinate their children. I'm also concerned about the increasing p...

Tending the Garden of Our Mind

As the photos that accompany this article suggest, I love to garden. The past three years I've been able to greatly expand the garden areas on my one acre using some wonderful techniques I've learned in the past couple of years. Learning how to ga...

The Myth of Medicine or "Take 10 Pills and You're Fine"

I frequently get emails or Facebook messages from people asking me for medical advice. They want me to tell them what herbs or supplements they should take for whatever disease they or a family member have been diagnosed with. In other cases, i...

Thoughts on the Ebola Scare

As I write this, it's early October, the month for Halloween. Halloween is the time when we celebrate the more macabre side of life. It's fall, so plants are dying back and animals are seeking shelter for winter. As summer dies, it's as natural to...

Quality Control Issues in Our Industry

Last week, Merry Lycett Harrison, a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, posted a link to an article about quality control issues with Young Living and DoTERRA essential oils, called Damning Evidence that Young Living and DoTERRAs...

Think Strategies, Not Remedies

My first herb book was Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss. I tried many of the remedies he suggested and sometimes they worked and sometimes they didn’t. I was a bit confused, primarily because he suggested remedies, but gave me no real understanding of...

The Story Behind Our New Book: Modern Herbal Medicine

In 1986, I was working for Nature’s Sunshine Products (NSP).  As an employee, I was very inhibited in what I could say about the company’s products because of the strict government regulations about making disease claims for herbs, vitamins, miner...

Product Companies in Modern Herbal Medicine

We've finally started taking pre-orders on our new book, Modern Herbal Medicine. On one of the forums I belong to someone asked how I knew all the companies we selected for the book produce high quality products. The answer is, we don't, because w...

Refreshing Our Website

For the past six months I've been frantically working to complete our new book Modern Herbal Medicine, which will soon be available in our webstore.  We've been working on this project for six years, and I first conceived of it over 20 years ago. ...

I'm Back, Finally!

Earlier this year, the software engine that ran the article database associated with my personal website, steven-horne.com developed a glitch.  I tried reinstalling the software, but that only made it worse.  So, I decided it was time to update to...