With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is…

“With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.”

David Hoffman

About This Quote

This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

Herbal therapies are gaining cultural acceptance; professional study is needed for safe integration.

In simple terms: Herbs need scientific validation.

Key Takeaway

Support research on herbal efficacy.

Themes

health culture science

Mood

analytical forward‑looking

Type

scientific policy

When to use this quote

clinical trials
policy making
patient education

Key Concepts

Botany pharmacology alternative medicine

Questions to Reflect On

What standards should govern herbal medicine?
How to balance tradition with evidence?

A Different Perspective

Regulation may lag behind usage.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

American culture Culture Herbal Herbal medicine Medicinal herbs Medicine People Profound Psychology Recognition Therapeutic Time Transformation Values

More by David Hoffman

I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it…

David Hoffman

In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit…

David Hoffman

I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

David Hoffman

Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with…

David Hoffman

Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt…

David Hoffman

I always live in the present - I love the present. I cherish the future.

David Hoffman

The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.

David Hoffman

Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost…

David Hoffman

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans…

David Hoffman

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in…

David Hoffman

Explore all 12 David Hoffman quotes

More American culture quotes

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,…

Oliver Markus Malloy

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

Tyler Cowen

“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…

Bill Bryson

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Fulton J. Sheen

“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

Salman Rushdie

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture…

Mario Batali

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

John Hodgman

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

Rafael Vinoly

And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make fun of…

Omid Djalili

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

Anonymous

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the…

Stephen L. Carter

Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the…

Masayoshi Son

“From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad interpersonal relationships.”

Christian Smith