April 2, 2009

Let me tell you some interesting recent developments in America. Once the loudest advocates of the “miracle” laboratory-produced drugs, American chemical and drug companies have had in the last few years an astonishing change of heart. In Popular Mechanics (April 1960) an article titled “In Search of Plants that Cure” (James Joseph) revealed that these same drug companies are spending many of their millions in searching out once again plants that have the reputation of healing or curing disease all over the world. Parties of chemists and botanists are being sent out to such out-of-the-way places as Iceland and Yucatan with instructions to bring back any plants known locally as of medicinal use. One researcher (Dr Alfred Taylor of the University of Texas) says, “We’ve never had as much success with chemicals invented by man as we’re having with plant extracts.” How many “witches” were burnt at the stake in medieval times for saying the same? And how many herb users in health and sickness today are figures of fun to their neighbours and long-suffering friends? Perhaps pharmaceutical companies are the ones who have taken the wrong turning for many years.

The millions spent in money and time by such firms, and the advertising they will undoubtedly use, may once again make it seem important to grow the physic gardens of long ago. The wheel is turning full circle, and the “green revolution” appears to be not very far away. I hope the following chapters will give you some of the necessary ammunition to be in the vanguard.

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Related Posts:

• MAINTAINING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE – CONCLUSION
• THE EFFECTS OF SMOKING – BLOOD PRESSURE AND THE PULSE
• COOKING SALT – ADEQUATE SALT INTAKE
• THE CORRECT BAKING PROCESS – INTERESTING OBSERVATION
• VITAMINS – THE MERITS OF FOOD RICH IN VITAMIN Ñ
• THE PANCREAS – INTRODUCTION
• THREADWORMS AND ROUNDWORMS – TREATMENT
• A TYPICAL DAILY PROGRAMME – AFTER BREAKFAST
• THE URINARY BLADDER
• THE HEART – AN INDEFATIGABLE – ORGAN COMPLICATIONS DESERVING ATTENTION (OPPOSITE PHENOMENON)