good self care empowers
"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine"
-William Osler (1849-1919)
Osler has been described as the Father of Modern Medicine
irony because pharmaceutical meds are the doctor's primary tool today. herbalism is the medicine of the people...the practice of good self care is empowering.
"Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients."
(the Hippocratic oath taken by modern doctors is named in honor of Hippocrates...doctors cite him as the father of western medicine)