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• They will be here again soon, digging around in gardens and along roadsides, people collecting herbs.
• According to those who are familiar with the hobby, there are more and more of these people around every year - a veritable phenomenon.
• Helsinki resident Henriette Kress, 42, could serve as an example.
• For her, the hobby began in her native Germany at the tender age of five.
• Her childhood home was on an island where it was customary that the houses specialised in different medicinal herbs, and the people knew to seek help from a certain house", Kress recounts.
• Over the course of the coming summer, Henriette Kress will guide readers of Helsingin Sanomat into the secret world of natural and cultivated medicinal plants.
• Kress estimates that her website is the most comprehensive of its type in the world.
• Kress has taken all of the website's over 6,000 pictures herself.
• She has also published two books on plants, and her pictures of plants have been published in The Wall Street Journal, among others.
• The Kress family moved from Germany to Liljendal, a Swedish-speaking area of Eastern Uusimaa, in the 1970s.
• Henriette graduated from the Swedish School of Economics and worked for years as financial manager for a Finnish subsidiary of an international firm.
• After graduating, she has made her living from herbs.
• The collection of herbs has long traditions nonetheless, and herbal medicine is a part of cultural history.
• There are written documents on the use and cultivation of herbs in Finland that date back to the 15th century.
• "In self-care you either strengthen the functions of your body or help ease simple ailments.
• For example, if you have a headache, try this herb", Kress explains.

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