Hanna Kroeger, Grandmother of Health

Hanna’s Herbal Combinations are special for their healing properties, specific ratios, and purity. This excerpt from Instant Herbal Locator explains how Hanna learned to balance herbal formulas.

I used to mix herbs without rhyme or reason. If mullein is good for the lungs, why not add something else like shave grass for the kidney and peppermint for taste?

Then I met Rev. Dr. Houston who taught me how to mix herbs properly.

He taught me that herbs have a delicate vibration. If you blend herbs together that do not enhance the harmony with each other and for each other, you end up with a dead formula. If you use just one teaspoon too much of one item or another, you end up with a dead formula. If you do not mix the herbs well, you end up with a dead formula.

The healing of herbs is a blending of vibrations with each other and with the one to be healed; the product has to be well-balanced in order to accomplish this. Chemicals do not have to be well-balanced because chemicals have another purpose and heal on another level.

It is just as it is with people.  A well-balanced person can be an immense blessing to their environment. Why is this so? Is it because of the minerals calcium or magnesium or any other minerals or vitamins? No, it is because of the person’s life force energy. They manage to balance in themselves the life energy which makes them balanced. So it is with herb formulas. They have to be balanced carefully to be a blessing to mankind.

Once Hanna understood the importance of balancing herbal formulas, she was able to create combinations that could help a number of people who came to see her at her shop, New Age Foods. During the early years Hanna made her own herbal combinations at the kitchen table, a few capsules at a time, and would give the formulas away to anyone who needed help. As she became known for her formulas and as a master of using subtle and unique combinations of two or more herbs to improve the system of the body as a whole, demand for Hanna’s products grew.

Hanna’s knowledge of herbs and healing led her to look for the causes (and not just effects) of illness and to choose from a well-rounded palette of healing techniques not limited by convention. By looking at physical, emotional, and spiritual motives for ailments she could apply diet, herbs, homeopathics, vitamins, minerals, physical alignment, massage, acupressure, aura balancing, and other practices of natural healing. Hanna never claimed to have any outstanding gifts yet her practices are still followed today and her products are sold around the world. Learn more about Hanna in her books and through the learn link on our website.