OUR APOTHECARY IN BATTLE GROUND IS RUN BY PHYSICIANS. EXPERTS IN NATURAL MEDICINE!
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OUR APOTHECARY IN BATTLE GROUND IS RUN BY PHYSICIANS. EXPERTS IN NATURAL MEDICINE!
OVER 30 YEARS IN BUSINESS IS ENOUGH TIME TO GENERATE A STORY. HERE'S OURS.
The wild, winding and wonderful history of our
Battle Ground Healing Arts Apothecary
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
every Saturday throughout the summer
This was a difficult year for much of the planet as the COVID virus hit, businesses shut down, forest fires raged, and social issues became urgent and sometimes violent.
We felt very fortunate that our apothecary was able to thrive and allowed to stay open as an essential business. We were able to share our strength with others offering expert medical care, free services for some populations, and gave away essential medicines and goods to those in need.
The 4th Volume of Dr Stansbury's Textbooks was published and received rave reviews.
Link here to the publisher's site - Chelsea Green, to purchase the scholarly, in-depth texts that showcase both folkloric and modern molecular research on herbal medicine.
All 5 volumes of the Herbal Formulary series are now available, also on Amazon.
The plants and gardens did not seem fazed by the strife in the world and we were blessed with a wonderful year for fruits and flowers.
We offered online classes instead of our usual in-person gatherings due to the restrictions on social gatherings.
We joined forces with Yacolt Mountain Farms again to make our 2nd annual Farmer's Market a big success, even wearing masks.
We launched our own small line of drinks and snacks -
Medicine Gourmet!
Our maiden product was
Medicine Chocolate,
a vegan sugar-free, spicy and medicinal hot chocolate that we offer free to all customers through the winter months.
Our affiliated medical clinic welcomed Dr Sorenson, Dr Frieze, and Dr Loch to the practice expanding our offerings to the community.
We upped our Apothecary offerings to fulfill the needs of our growing medical clinic and, added a professional consulting service for clinicians
As our new physicians take over clinical practice,
Dr Stansbury is able to focus on
The BG Healing Arts Apothecary and professional formulation offerings, and on her ethnobotany research and writing.
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
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!
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