That does not include those that died, or were made ill, at home. But drugs are scientific and can easily be monopolized for incredible profits. Herbs are cheap even free. Nearly all are safe, with no side effects. Nutrition is the basis for good health and prevention of illness.
Herbs are the most nutritious of all foods.
They are ideal for health maintenance because you can take them every day, providing the nutrients your heart and other organs need, without danger of fatal overdose. There is an enormous popular movement towards natural health maintenance and away from medical treatment. Trust and confidence fall to new lows with each report about killer drugs, unnecessary surgery, failed medical devices and FDA indifference. For thousands of years herbs have been used in the treatment of disease. From the time of King Solomon, who was reputed to be the wisest man of his time and a great herbal physician, on down to Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Galen and all through the Middle Ages, right up to the present time there has always been great herbologists.