Since 1945, when Dr. Christopher started formulating safe and effective herbal combinations, the Christopher family has made it a primary goal to provide you with the finest herbs and herbal products available. Many health practitioners think that it is the active ingredient that does the work and that more is better. Herbs or foods in these manipulated or "processed" forms tend to respond to the body more like an isolate, which is another term describing a drug. Dr. Christopher always taught that it is important to use the whole herb to include all the natural healing ingredients and safety buffers that were supposed to naturally be there. Once again, the whole is better than the part, and that is how all of Dr. Christopher's products are produced.