These two types of doctors are not defined by their schooling, licenses or their gender. Mechanics have a more technical way of practicing, the gardeners a more nurturing, sometimes intuitive approach. And this may be true even within different medical disciplines. The botanical materia medica gives suggested doses, but the practitioner should be aware of different prescribing and dosing strategies which might be selected for different patients, and which would require a modification of the dose. He had given up the practice of medicine when he found the therapies of his time to be ineffective and extremely harmful, and did not resume practice until he discovered in homeopathy a means to help people heal gently, rapidly and reliably.
Every housewife is a pharmacist, every loaf of bread is a pharmaceutical preparation.
Reprinted with permission.