A very interesting article and certainly spells hopes for those with a terminal illness for which a cure is still to be found and possibly a lucrative business potential for pharmaceutical companies.
The other thing that came to mind as I read the article was "exploitation of resources" - in the same way coal, petroleum, gas and other natural resources have been exploited by the human race. How long would it be before these wonderful creatures of the ocean disappear before our very eyes because of human greed? And how long would it be before the oceans get so polluted that no living organisms can grow because pharmaceutical companies are employing huge machineries and whatever else to take the resources that they want?
Western medicine takes the approach of extracting the so-called active ingredients of substances, then discard the rest. Such highly concentrated extracts consumed over a long period of time can damage the human body. Chinese medicine takes a different approach. It's not so much about what one single herb can do, or what active ingredients are, but how this single herb, together with other herbs can cure diseases. I am not so sure that "medicine is just chemistry". A few thousand years ago, way before chemistry was known to people, Chinese and many other natives from other parts of the world were already using herbs to cure people, not realizing or paying attention to the active ingredients of substances.
May be the answer to healing lies in how one can live more in accordance and in harmony with nature.
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