Re: Does Dr. Schulze and Southern Botanicals have some of the same quality products?

The owner of Southern Botanicals, Ron Radstrom, was actually trained by Schulze. Schulze sold seminar training in So Cal for how to make his herbal formulas, He taught these saying that he wanted to see a hundred American Botanical Pharmacies around the country to make herbal formulas available to all. While many went to the week-long seminars, not everyone followed through making the herbal preparations. Ron Radstrom was one of those who did. He went to Schulze trainings several times. He believed in the cause and passed on the training to others out of his house initially helping others to make herbal formulas for their own use. Ron trained some who went on to have their own herbal formulas businesses now like Doc Shillington who went on to become a certified naturopath and has his online Academy of Natural Healing. Also Sindi Holmlund who makes some of the herbal products plus her own line of bioidentical hormone creams. This wasn't a rip-off of Schulze, it was started at a time when Schulze was promoting for and charging a fee to learn to make his formulas. At some point, Schulze decided Health Freedom Resources and Radstrom were a threat to him.

There are no court records to be found because there was no court case – so despite the rant post writer’s insistence on his version of the “truth”, you won't find it regards a court case. Schulze did have his lawyer threaten Radstrom to take Schulze’s name off articles posted for information on Health Freedom Resources' website, and Radstrom did so. Health Freedom Resources was originally a large free information website where articles were posted, while later Southern Botanicals was a small off-shoot site to sell products.

Thereafter Radstrom got permission from the Christopher Foundation to continue to make the formulas as these formulas were originally developed by Dr Christopher and learned from him by Schulze.

Natural solutions are a crusade for Ron Radstrom - and once he got started and saw the results people got, he didn't quit. He is passionate, constantly does research and shares it with individuals. Also he credits Schulze for his training, and admires the many years of clinical experience Schulze comes from.

There is a Southern Botanicals, a Western Botanicals and even a Northern Botanicals, all people who made the formulas Schulze taught. There was no surreptitious "copying" - these formulas were taught straight out at Schulze's seminars in So Cal in the 1990's. Jon Barron of Baseline Nutritionals and Blessed Herbs were also students of Schulze and they make and market similar formulas and have expanded with some of their own. Southern Botanicals is a fairly small company, but dedicated.

Ron Radstrom is not out to make a profit at any cost. He doesn't make small shot glasses to market products that were sold in larger bottles at a reasonable price. He is very careful to use organic and wild-crafted American grown herbs that haven't been fumigated or irradiated in transit. Quality is a big point for him and his products are not cheap knock-offs. They are the real deal. He also carries whole food nutritional products too as to him that is the logical end conclusion of what has to change to regain good health. Radstrom has spent years looking into farming methods and meeting with farmers to research how food is best raised/grown for health.

Sam Biser made the book Curing with Cayenne which is currently out of print, but available in total in various places on the internet. Ron Radstrom got one of these and shares it with others from time to time - never sold it. Never altered it either – I have seen it. Biser got screwed by Schulze in the book/video deal, and backed out of natural health work entirely.

More facts: Southern Botanicals never had labels colored at all similar to Schulze’s current brown and yellow labels, which by the way, are not what Schulze had in the early days but are a more recent marketing choice. Southern Botanicals never had any labels similar to Schulze’s. They always have had white, or the blue-green labels, or new ones now that white with herbal images. Nor is the business named Southern Botanicals “Pharmacy”.

And yes, Schulze is currently copying Ron Radstrom's slight packaging innovations and also has been buying advertising adwords using Radstom's product name. You can also see that Schulze wrote his own website home page headline as "Health is Freedom", trying to try to capture business from Radstrom’s Health Freedom Resources’ website. The point was and is to get natural herbal remedies in use to help people. It’s a big country and there are lots and lots of people who haven’t even been introduced yet. No need to fight over them.
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