Early pioneers did not have access to healthcare and learned to grow or gather their own medicines.
Many very beneficial plants can be found by walking around our neighborhood and looking on the most "unkempt" yards at the "weeds". Or if you are fortunate to live near a forested area, you might find some real treasures.
We had a professional biologist speak to our Garden Club. He stated that the more he studied medicinal herbs and plants, the more he realized that most of our "modern" medicines are actually derived from plants. But "Big Pharma" can't make any money that way, so they "refine" the elements found in the herbs and promote them as "new discoveries". Many other helpful elements found in the plants are refined away and we are better off making our own tinctures and salves to get the full benefits from medicinal herbs and plants.
If you are interested in Medicinal Herbs, here is a great site to bookmark:
Top 10 Anti-Inflammatory Herbs
