Herbal Remedies
Regarding the use of traditional curative herbs, any herb known to have medicinal effects can surely be used by the friends, and those administering such medicaments should be left entirely free to carry out their profession. However, it must be borne in mind that this is different from traditional fetishist practices which involve communication with departed spirits.
- 23 December 1991, written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly
Quote of the Day
Kamal 5 Asma 183 B.E.
The sciences and arts, all inventions, crafts, trades and their products have come forth from the intellect of man. It is evident that within the human organism the intellect occupies the supreme station. Therefore, if religious belief, principle or creed is not in accordance with the intellect and the power of reason, it is surely superstition.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá – The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 63