Incredible article, thank you for weighing in! And thanks @riverflows for turning me on to it!!

I was just nodding my head the entire time. Your pics were spot on too- the money slot for a coin and the US filled with pills! The saddest part to me is that the entire nation of the US is brainwashed against other forms of medicine (of course there are many natural resurgence here too) and will defend the “right” of the big pharma, monetized doctors and control of the FDA.

Western medicine became more and more caught up in its hubris, branding age-old, proven, natural and therefore UNPATENTABLE remedies which would compete with their own as "anecdotal", unscientifically proven and unsafe, if not illegal and fake!

So well said. They want a monopoly on medicine (though their form of it is severely lacking and would be well complemented with natural medicine or as your diagram said “body as garden” and not machine medicine..). As an herbalist, we have to learn to not make statements or “claims” that the FDA would deem overstepping our place, which is certainly, always, a few steps below “modern medicine” and of course, not as effective in their eyes.

Loved your story of the Chinese diognostic... I have had horrible experiences with the medical system here—- as you say, it cannot heal many things and they just throw pills at you. In fact, it doesn’t focus on healing but on covering up or fixing surface symptoms. But my stories will be saved for a future @naturalmedicine challenge that is coming soon (and I hope you’ll participate as well!). Thanks again for your erudite, informed and insightful response!