Wypr: The Signal Podcast

A trip to the pharmacy is, let’s be honest, kind of a drag.  You wait in line.  You give your name.  You watch them rifle through the bags. If you’re lucky, they have your prescription ready.  You pay, and you’re done.  On a good day, you might get a half-smile and a muttered, ‘hello,’ from your pharmacist.  It wasn’t always this way.  Before the modern-day pharmacy, there was the bygone era of the apothecary.  And before pharmacists were relegated to their roles as rubber-stampers of doctor-prescribed medicines, there were herbalists who used their encyclopedic botanical knowledge to create and dispense hand-crafted remedies.  Well, what’s old is new again.  The Signal’s Aaron Henkin has the story…   Upcoming community education events with Oherbals herbalist Olivia Fite:   KITCHEN MEDICINE A one-hour class on how to use food as medicine & medicine as food Saturday, November 9th MESH Baltimore Skill Share event 1-4pm Christ Lutheran Church 701 S. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21230   KITCHEN MEDIC