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By Mr Ghaz on October 17th, 2009
Green Medicine: A Grass-roots Approach to Illness
One major advantage of Chinese herbal remedies is that they are relatively inexpensive – certainly in comparison with the $28.5 billion that people in the United States recently spent on “drugs and sundries” in one year. It was the cost factor that in 1974 led the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) to encourage all countries in the Third World to develop their own traditional systems of medicine. At the time, the move was criticized as “giving the green light to witch doctors,” but its proponents called it a very necessary measure because of the urgent health problems of developing countries.
