Depending on our ultimate intention, there are 2 issues involved in the therapeutic process.
First, for the straight-forward synthetic chemical we call modern drug, its design and preparation are scientific; but once it enters our complex body, the process is simply trial and error, no different from how our distant ancestors first tasted plants to distinguish the edible ones from the toxic ones; then passed them on to us.
Second, while traditional medicines have been effectively used for millennia in keeping us alive and well, they are no longer truly traditional in recent decades. It seems no one has been interested in preserving them, while Big Pharma with its financial clout, is only interested in obtaining more chemical drugs from them, thus skewing everything to only chemical drugs. It has even somehow persuaded scientists in China to go along. Hence, I’m sad to say, no more traditional Chinese medicines as they have been known, used, and documented! Unless…
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