The ideas of academically qualified herbalists, as well as those of a single herbalist family in Iceland which has acquired its knowledge over the course of many generations, are compared and discussed in order to gain an understanding of the status of herbal medicine tradition in contemporary Icelandic society.
Viðhorf menntaðra grasalækna og grasalæknafjölskyldu einnar (hér kölluð Grasalæknafjölskyldan), sem hefur numið þekkingu sína af eldri kynslóðum langt aftur í ættir, verða borin saman til þess að kanna stöðu grasalækningahefðar í samtímanum.