AS THE APOTHECARY TURNS...

Dr Henry Skinner built what is now Battle Ground Healing Arts as a home side by side with his medical clinic in 1930 and served as a primary care physician for all of North Clark County, WA

Dr Stansbury had a wonderful  friendship with the elderly Dr Skinner and she is currently only the 2nd owner of the property in nearly a century.

Dr Stansbury completed a medical assisting program with an internship at Stanford Hospital, went on to graduate from San Jose State University with honors and was accepted to the naturopathic medical school in Portland, OR.

She moved to Hockinson and commuted to the med school, and also served on several Clark County health and environmental boards.

Dr Stansbury graduated from medical school and established Battle Ground Healing Arts, renting the clinic on Main Street from Dr Henry Skinner.

In this hard-working decade, Dr Stansbury wore many hats: mother, physician, business owner, professor, author, gardener and cheif bottle washer.

Dr Stansbury purchased the BG Healing Arts property from Dr Skinner using the advance she received from her first herb book as a down payment.

Dr Stansbury grew the business into a thriving multidisciplinary facility with acupuncturists, massage therapists, and aestheticians.

Dr Stansbury began to convert what was a 1 car garage on Main Street into a medicinal apothecary to be called our NATURAL GOODS store or "apothecary".

Here is a photo of Dr Stansbury's daughter's lemonade stand in front of the garage that is now the apothecary in BG.

The Reflector, Battle Ground's weekly paper announced the opening of the Natural Goods store and referred to the new business as an "apothecary",  the town's first use of the term. 

 This Reflector article from 2002 uses the terms Healing Arts and Apothecary helping to launch our unique brand. 

As Dr Stansbury built out the apothecary, the  affiliated  "Family Practice" was rebranded as "Healing Arts" in 2002 to better reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the clinicians practicing alongside the NATURAL GOODS apothecary.

This Jan 2002 Photo feaures the new signage.

The NATURAL GOODS apothecary, also known as the HEALING ARTS APOTHECARY was a huge success and brought in patients to our practice and people curious to learn more about alternative medicine.   

Our NATURAL GOODS apothecary continued to flourish and required  hiring additional staff as the supplements, teas, and natural medicines were well received by the community.

 This photo features one of our most popular teas, the HEART CHAKRA blend, formulated by Dr Stansbury and employs flavonoid-rich hawthorn for its  vasoprotective properties.

Dr Jill Stansbury  continued to teach natural products chemistry and research herbal medicine around the world.  

Our apprentices  learned how Dr Stansbury made her medicines, obtained her goods, ran her alternative medicine apothecary, and other skills unique to the BG apothecary biz.

Dr Jill Stansbury was awarded an ethnobotany research grant and traveled to South America frequently, plus taught at 6-10 conferences per year, adding up to being away from Battle Ground  over half of the year for a decade.  

One of our volunteers was hired to run our Natural Goods apothecary while Dr Stansbury traveled extensively.

One of our staff purchased our herb shop inventory and ran our apothecary for her own profit and renamed the shop B.A.N.G - Battle Ground Apothecary and Natural Goods based on our patient referrals and well established  platform of support.

Dr Stansbury conducted extensive ethnobotany research in the Amazon.

Dr Stansbury published another herbal medicine book, the

 PCOS Health and Nutrition Guide, and in these years published dozens of scholarly articles for medical journals and gave over 100 lectures at professional conferences.

Dr Stansbury spent over 6 months in the Amazon and another month or two teaching throughout the country each year.

This was the start of 2 difficult years for our apothecary.

Dr Stansbury realized that she was traveling too much and working too hard on outside projects, and that  communication from afar was too ineffectual to be successful  with the current arrangement.  She decided to stick closer to the Battle Ground apothecary and build out our natural remedies and alternative medicine offerings.

Less than 3 years after attempting to have an apothecary partner, we had to terminate the arrangement.  

We smudged, we painted, and we started up the BG Healing Arts Apothecary for ourselves again in the fall of 2015.

We wished B.A.N.G well  in their new location and referred those seeking their unique offerings their way.  

Upon taking over apothecary operations for ourselves again, the Happy Days Returned!!

Because our former partner used the name B.A.N.G - Battle Ground Apothecary and Natural Goods, Dr Stansbury decided  to take the Natural Goods  sign off the apothecary store front to avoid confusion with their continued use of our original name.  

We simply continued using our long established

Healing Arts Apothecary tradename befitting of our federal trademarks

Battle Ground Healing Arts

and BG Healing Arts.

  With the several challenging years now solidly behind us,  the business flourished and grew.

We installed a new roof and added a new solarium on to our apothecary to  give us more space to accommodate the growing business.

A life long plant lover, Dr Stansbury started propagating house plants and exotic medicinals in the solarium.

The expansion investment started to payoff  immediately with a demonstrable increase in foot traffic and subsequent sales.

 Dr Stansbury's Reasearch Grants were renewed!

Dr Stansbury also received a 5 book contract to codify her life's work in the study of Herbal Medicine into a textbook series entitled 

Herbal Formularies for 

Healthcare Professionals.

Dr Stansbury illustrated the  series herself using her rusty undergraduate degree in scientific illustration.

As royalties started to roll in, Dr Stansbury began turning the medical practice over to her associate physicians and focus on her research and her apothecary.

2018 was another stellar year! 

 We invested in a solar roof, installed a rain catchment system and became a GREEN BUSINESS!

 Dr Stansbury recieved an academic  award!

Dr Stansbury was honored with The Order of the University  from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR  for her textbooks,  her ethnobotany research and for mentoring doctoral students for 30 years.  

3OTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY! 

In the summer of 2019, we celebrated 30 years in business with a 

FARMER'S MARKET

every Saturday throughout the summer

 LINK TO OUR

ANNIVERSARY PHOTOS

Dr Stansbury was hired to formulate Women's Health Products for Wile and this line launched in 2022.

This up and coming company has its heart in the right place and is already showing signs that it will rocket to prominence.

Link here to a Podcast

HOT FLASES, COOL TOPICS

Dr Stansbury's 5 Volume textbook series was selected for an Excellence in Botanical Literature Award by the American Botanical Council at their 2022 awards banquet held at the Natural Products Expo.

Dr Stansbury's textbooks have become recommended or required reading at a number of medical schools throughout the United States.

We were thrilled to host actress Judy Greer at the Healing Arts Apothecary after she and Dr Stansbury worked on a project together in April.

We had such fun and it finally put a fire under us to touch up the paint on the dingy door jamb - because there was a Movie Star visiting and all.

2022 IS GOING REALLY WELL SO FAR!