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ABOUT VITALITY WORKS

Traditionally, all
herbal formulas were prepared by herbalists working with real clients, dealing with real
health issues. All health issues would be evaluated and a formula created to treat people,
not just symptoms. Often, the herbalist would change the formula to maximize results.
Today, most herb companies prepare their formulas based on research in books and data
bases without personal contact or feedback.
Vitality Works, Inc. offers a unique alternative that speaks to the very heart of
traditional herbal preparation and effective herbal usage. Bridging the successes of
traditional herbalism to todays health concerns, all Vitality Works, Inc. tinctures
and formulas come from the personal efforts of the Vitality Works Health Clinic. Located
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the clinic has developed a national reputation among thousands
of clients since 1982. Focusing on herbalism, acupuncture, and massage therapy, each
patients specific needs are addressed by a staff of professional practitioners.
All the herbal preparations are produced in Vitality Works, Inc. own manufacturing
facility
to ensure quality control. Like the traditional herbalist, Vitality Works, Inc. sees real
patients with real health problems, adjusting formulas to maximize effectiveness. This
standard of efficacy that Vitality Works, Inc. brings to the natural products retailer is
unsurpassed by any other company on the market. Vitality Works, Inc. offers you and your
customers years of herbal wisdom
Traditional Herbalism For Todays World.
Organically grown and ethically wild harvested herbs are used in Vitality Works, Inc.
extracts and formulas to bring you the highest quality herbal preparations available.
Vitality Works uses only a select group of herbal wild harvesters whose concerns for the
environment meet our high ethical standards and uncompromising quality control.
The energy behind Vitality Works, Inc. comes from the dedication of Mitch Coven,
Founder of the clinic and herb lab. Personally involved in the clinical work as well as
the manufacturing facility, Mitch is a trained medical herbalist, in clinical practice.
Educated at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, he also us an Instructor of Herbal
Pharmacy at the National College of Phytotherapy as well as
Instructor of Herbal Medicine at the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics. Mitch is
known for the educational intensives and classes he has taught to health professionals,
herbal medicine students and the public across the country. True to his traditional herbal
background, Mitch focuses on developing Vitality Works products based upon the successful
real-life experiences of the many patients who seek help at the Clinic.
Vitality
Works, Inc. is an Albuquerque, New Mexico based liquid herbal extract company owned and
operated by Mitch Coven, a practicing clinical herbalist. He lectures widely on herbal
therapeutics and oversees quality control and product development. Mitch teaches herbal
pharmacy at the National College of Phytotherapy. Founded in 1982, Vitality Works started
as a holistic health clinic focusing on alternative therapies. All of Vitality
Works formulas have been developed through clinical practice and extensive
experience.
To ensure the high quality of our
extracts, our herbal preparations are produced locally in our own manufacturing facility,
an F.DA. Registered and approved homeopathic drug manufacturing site.
All Vitality Works herbs are ethically and ecologically
wildharvested, organically grown by independent farmers with whom we contract, or
selectively imported under strict standards. They are custom picked at the peak of their
season by skilled botanists and herbalists to assure premium quality. Much time and
expense goes into sourcing and purchasing only the freshest and most vital raw materials.
Our herbs are never fumigated or irradiated.
The fresh plant extracts are macerated within 12 to 48 hours from
harvest while the dry plant extracts are ground minutes before extraction and are cold
drip percolated, all to exacting standards to maximize potency. Alcohol and water are used
to extract the most difficult to digest biochemical compounds. Ratios of herb to menstrum
are calculated by the potency of the herb. Extractions are approved by the A.T.F. and use
U.S.P. grade grain alcohol and deionized kinetically stored water. We use pharmaceutical
grade (U.S.P.) grain alcohol, not industrial alcohol or hexane.
Our glycerites (alcohol free) are first extracted in alcohol, then the
alcohol is carefully removed in a manner that will not damage heat sensitive
polysaccharides, then replaced with vegetable glycerine and raw New Mexico honey. All
F.D.A. Good Manufacturing Practices (G.M.P.s) are followed in a microbiologically clean
environment. Tests show our glycerites to be 99.998% alcohol free.
Vitality works is an active member of the American Herbal Products
Association and United Plant
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