An interesting story about a woman who studied traditional herbal remedies and what she learned:
“Still, much of modern medicine is an attempt to copy nature, she noted. Willow bark – the precursor of aspirin – is one example. Pharmaceutical companies made a synthetic copy of the salicin in the bark, calling it acetylsalic acid, or aspirin.
“You can’t put a patent on something God made, so they photocopy it,” said Evans.
Yet willow bark has thousands of components that aspirin does not, making it far more complex and useful for more ailments than aspirin. It even heals erosions of the stomach lining where aspirin may cause them, she noted.
“Herbs are very complex. Pharmaceuticals are for the most part one main ingredient,” she explained.
That’s not to say that modern medicine doesn’t have its place, said Evans. “Pharmaceutical medicine is wonderful. It saved my father’s life. But it is new,” said Evans. “The fourth leading cause of death in the United States is due to correctly prescribed medicines,” she said, citing the mainstream Journal of the American Medical Association. “It’s a testimony to the fact that modern medicine is new.”
“Herbs have been beside us the whole time – that long timeline. There’s a lot of traditional wisdom we’ve learned over a long time about these plants. The herbal knowledge we have has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. Every time I make a tea I am connecting with that.”
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