Pharmacist wants to use herbs to help elevate level of healing By: Erica Kinnaird, STAFF WRITER (High Point Enterprise)

For some people, going the extra mile for their job is a task, but for Amy Greeson, it was the beginning of an adventure.

Greeson, a pharmacist at the Medicine Shoppe in Thomasville, went more than an extra mile - she went all the way to the rainforests of Belize, in Central America, to learn more about herbal medicine.

by Amy Greeson

While exploring in the Galapagos Islands, I spent some time at the Charles Darwin Observatory. I have always been fascinated with this “survival of the fittest” environment with its simplicity and the peace, harmony and balance that exist so naturally. Perhaps my intrigue could be summarized by the powerful words of Charles Darwin himself (1835): “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” For isn't this the same wisdom that has been spoken by many enlightened souls throughout the time of man? And isn't this responsiveness to change what we are witnessing now with health and healing? There has been, and continues to be, a dramatic shift as we explore, experiment, and incorporate a wide variety of healing practices. And although survival is one outcome of such measures, perhaps even more powerful may be the heightened quality of life.