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Herbs and the Immune System

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

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The Immune System - The Game Board

Most and or all of the compounds that we use in modern medicine at some point come from plants, right? In some capacity. And what was the inflection point in 1864 then? Laziness, basically. So that's when the chemists first came up with a compound that they found was bioactive in the human body. It was a sedative and that led them to go, well, if we can have this power from something created outside of nature's leaf factories, what else can we do?

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