A few months ago I started studying herbalism. I became quite obsessed and was amazed by the properties of healing plants. With the numerous health issues I have been dealing with, I was able to basically stop taking pharmaceuticals and replace them with herbal remedies. The only pharmaceutical drug I take is levothyroxine which is a thyroid hormone, but I do hope that I can eventually wean myself off this as well.
When you start to understand the origins of pharmaceuticals you'll start to realise that it was never about healing people, it was always about profits.
They can't patent plants, but if they modify the plant and extract certain properties and combine that with other chemicals and call it a "medicine" they may be able to patent it. And therefore have exclusive rights to profit from it for a certain amount of time...
A few months ago I started studying herbalism. I became quite obsessed and was amazed by the properties of healing plants. With the numerous health issues I have been dealing with, I was able to basically stop taking pharmaceuticals and replace them with herbal remedies. The only pharmaceutical drug I take is levothyroxine which is a thyroid hormone, but I do hope that I can eventually wean myself off this as well.
When you start to understand the origins of pharmaceuticals you'll start to realise that it was never about healing people, it was always about profits.
They can't patent plants, but if they modify the plant and extract certain properties and combine that with other chemicals and call it a "medicine" they may be able to patent it. And therefore have exclusive rights to profit from it for a certain amount of time...