Modern Medicine Is Only Possible Because It Was Built Off of Traditional Medicine

Some of our most important pharmaceuticals, these are drugs that are listed by the world health organization as essential medicines, many of these originated in plants. Some modern scientists and medical practitioners just don't see the value of herbs. There are some things in nature that will definitely kill you. And then there's also this idea that some plants can cure everything. Human medicine has developed over centuries and centuries of trial and error. If we're going to find the medicines of the future, we have to recognize, number one, where our current medicines come from; and number two, take a really hard look at what our future holds. We're losing species faster than we can study them.