Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/ Decades as a professional farmer had clearly taught my mentor a thing or two about the synergistic building-blocks of life itself. "The future of agriculture," he said, "is in the hands of the gardeners." A 3-part thread, then. First, perspective. web.archive.org/web/20080317133924/http://seedambassadors.org/kindmind/2007/07/05/synergy-paradigm-shifting-phytomedicinals/

Despite science’s clear historical role as “an alliance of free spirits in all cultures rebelling against” the tyranny of their local cultures (Freeman Dyson), not a few wise souls aver that the striking absence of scientifically-plausible evidence relating to the efficacy of whole plant medicine is largely a symptom of the materialist limits of the scientific method itself and the tyranny of the biomedical worldview it exclusively validates.
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Despite science’s clear historical role as “an alliance of free spirits in all cultures rebelling against” the tyranny of their local cultures (Freeman Dyson), not a few wise souls aver that the striking absence of scientifically-plausible evidence relating to the efficacy of whole plant medicine is largely a symptom of the materialist limits of the scientific method itself and the tyranny of the biomedical worldview it exclusively validates.

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Quoted by@RizomaSchool Agh. I was confusing and should clarify. We definitely use the root, but _also_ the leaves. Plants are living pharmacies, as I'm sure you already know. It's the synergies which bring magic to our doctoring. That photo of the toddler is angelic, by the by.