04/06/2026
"The displacement of natural medicine from the center of healthcare was not the result of scientific failure. It was the result of a structural transformation in how medicine was regulated, funded, and rewarded." In other words, you can't patent and make money off of God's medicine. 🌿
From the 1899 Merck Manual to a 1932 pharmacist’s map, the historical record is unambiguous: natural medicine was displaced not because it failed, but because it couldn’t be owned.