The bible speaks many times of the healing virtue of plants as medicines to heal people and nations. For more than 40,000 years, humans have survived without modern drugs, surgery or radiation and they have enjoyed health. Select members of human societies in all ages were guardians of the knowledge of health and healing and their education in this field was vast. The plants of the forest were their tools. Today over two-thirds of the worlds population use herbal medicine as their primary means of health care.
Herbal medicine fits all the criteria of the scientific method.
Herbal medicine contains one of the largest bodies of knowledge and literature in existence. For all of the physical ills of humanity, there are solutions to be found in the green leafs, buds, inner bark, flowers and roots of plants. For every part of the body there is a corresponding herb which can restore the area to health. The system of herbal medicine involves the whole person. The purification of the blood is considered to be paramount.