Nicknamed the Herb Bus, she had a vision of utilizing mobile medicine as a means of providing earth-based care to underserved communities.

She kitted out the old family VW camper van and hit the road.

Wanting to get herbs directly in the hands of folks who needed them most, Lorna Mauney-Brodek decided to expand her Herbalista family herb practice to include a free mobile clinic. The Herbalista Free Clinic was an attempt at a different way of doing things. Even within the Herbal Community, where we point to the failure of our conventional medical system to provide adequate and accessible care, we sometimes recreate the very same problematic model, where only the privileged few have access to herbalists. King, we have also become the city with the largest income inequality in the United States! This type of contradiction is all too common, with rhetoric often not matching the reality. Martin Luther King who said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”įor a city that prides itself on the egalitarian legacy of Dr. Herbalista was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, home to Dr.

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