Folk medicine is usually defined as those medical beliefs and practices that come from “indigenous” cultures (for example, Native Americans), or treatments and therapies learned from parents and grandparents in the guise of home remedies. Herbalists offer plant medicines often thought to be milder and safer than chemical pharmaceuticals. The increasing interest in folk medicine and medicinal herbs and plants (phytopharmaceuticals) represents not only widespread displeasure with “biomedicine” in the United States, but also a heightened concern over the health consequences of life in a modern, technological society. Folk medicine and herbalists are seen as medical practices that reproduce healing processes found in nature.