Walk into any pharmacy right now. The shelves are stacked floor to ceiling with pills. Pain pills. Sleep pills. Digestion pills. Each one costs you between $10 and $50 a bottle. Each one comes with a list of side effects longer than the label itself.
Now walk into a medieval monastery garden in 1250. You would find over 400 plants growing in careful rows. Each one was a medicine. The monks who tended those gardens could treat pain, infection, fever, sleeplessness, and stomach problems using nothing but what grew in the dirt. No lab. No factory. No prescription. Just plants and knowledge built up over a thousand years of daily use.
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