NATURE’S TONICS

MEDICAL MARVELS

During a recent episode of TV series Doc Martin, the grouchy and astonishingly direct doctor approached a herbalist, who had newly arrived in their village, and questioned her medical practices.

She retaliated by questioning his use of modern medicine, vaccines, and when he championed his science over her folk lore, she snatched three bottles of ingredients off her shelf and asked him to name the common link between them.

The answer he gave was that they were all plant based. She agreed and pointed out that most of the medicines that he was using were, in fact, synthesized versions of plant-based medicines.

To a degree she was right, and so was he...

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WORDS: ROGER MORGAN

IMAGES: LEWIS PHILLIPS