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Artemis Herbal Medicine
Artemis manufactures and distributes therapeutic standard herbal medicines based on Swiss recipes with several centuries of clinical experience behind them. They supply therapeutic herbal teas, fresh-plant creams (with complementary tinctures for internal use) and the therapeutic St John’s Wort. All medicines are made with organic or bio-dynamically grown herbs.
A loan from Prometheus enabled Artemis to refurbish their newly acquired premises in Dunedin to the necessary production cleanliness standards. It also allowed them to import specialised weighing equipment for their range of therapeutic herbal teas, crafted with organically grown or wild herbs.
Artemis founder Sandra Clair, a traditionally trained Swiss herbalist with an academic background in Ethno-medicine, came to New Zealand 11 years ago. She made Dunedin her home and started a clinic for herbal consultation and body therapy. At that time, Weleda was the only company in New Zealand providing the therapeutic standard of herbal products that Sandra had used in Switzerland. However there were herbal products that Sandra wanted for her clients which Weleda weren't producing so she decided to start making some of her own on a limited basis.
Out of these roots Artemis Herbal Medicine was born in March 1998. Sandra's synergistic herbal mixtures were based on Swiss recipes with several centuries of clinical experience behind them. When word about the qualities of these herbal medicines spread she was asked by management of the local Health Stores in Dunedin to supply them.
From then on it has been a story of continuous growth, with distribution expanding first across the South Island and then making the move further north, especially to Auckland. Today the Artemis range is stocked in over 320 Health Stores and Organic Food Specialists, New Zealand wide.