Off The Grid: 5 Healing Weeds Your Doctor Probably Mows Over

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5 Healing Weeds Your Doctor Probably Mows Over

There are a multitude of healing plants which have effectively been used to promote health for hundreds, and sometimes thousands of years. Mainstream heath care practitioners are only beginning to appreciate and recommend these amazing natural remedies.
Physicians and other health care experts did use wild plants extensively until around the early 1900s. They were the main medicines listed in the American Medical Pharmacopeia. Around the turn of the 20th century, the American Medical Association became quite powerful and essentially created a monopoly which resulted in essentially eliminating naturopathic medicine and homeopathy from mainstream America.

“Wonder” Drugs and their Impact on Society and Medicine
With the advent of penicillin and other “miracle drugs,” the medical profession and general public began to believe that pharmaceutical drugs were better and more effective than traditional practices.
While modern pharmaceuticals can be essential life-saving tools, ordinary weeds can work quite well. Often weeds are safer, cheap, and have fewer side effects than modern drugs. Unfortunately, as “wonder” drugs and high tech medical care became more available, people began to take less responsibility for their own health. They left their health care to the “experts.”
Medicine and Money
Ordinary common plants cannot be patented in their original form. Pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars to patent a medicine. Since weeds cannot be patented, there is no financial incentive to invest in research.

In addition, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and health care systems all fund each other. As a result, physicians receive little or no education about the wonders of healing plants.
The Future of Healing
Fortunately, the tide is changing. People are once again taking charge of their own health. We have opportunities to return to our very roots of healing. This does not mean that modern pharmaceuticals and technology is not useful. What this change means is that people are becoming empowered. Over time, our health care system may utilize food, simple home remedies, wild plants, and ground-breaking new pharmaceuticals effectively as part of a broad continuum of health care. In fact, this is the only way that humans and the planet’s resources will survive….More Here

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