Simon Mills
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 26 Dec
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When we lived in the countryside, when we lived close to nature, that was very much around us.
And in every little community, there'd be someone, usually a woman, who would know their way around the plants and would help you out when you had an illness and a sickness.
I'm not saying that there's a golden age, but when we moved into cities, we lost a lot.
Apart from anything else, we were living on top of each other.
We had to drink each other's water.
You know, there was a lot of new illnesses, sicknesses, pestilences and so on that only came in cities.
In that world, the herbs couldn't cut it.
So we needed stronger stuff.
So they started using minerals.
They started using things that were poisons.
And the original physician's job was to be the only guy who could handle medicines that other people would not be safe to use.
And so you got your training to use these much more powerful medicines.
And it was thought that the old plant things were too soft and gentle.
And so they were generally discarded.
And then you develop these medicines into pills because often they were powders anyway.
And, you know, then the pharmaceutical industry came in and branded and made proprietary materials from them.
And that drifted a long way from just going down to a hedgerow, going into the garden, going into the kitchen and picking up remedies.
They do, yes.
I mean, most do.
I mean, if you're Inuit and Northern territories in Canada and Alaska, you would probably not have very many plants to choose from.
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