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| 4 Herbal Medicine, Healing, and Cancer |
| Each tree, shrub, and herb, down even to the grasses and mosses, agreed to furnish a remedy for some one of the diseases named, and each said: I shall appear to help man when he calls upon me in his need. Cherokee prayer |
| For hundreds, if not thousands of years, herbs have been esteemed for their healing value. Today, however, with the advent of modern medicine, herbs are considered inferior to drugs in many of the "developed" nations. In the United States, for example, most physicians consider ,herbs "unproven remedies," an ineffective relic of a primitive, unenlightened past. |
| I believe that herbsgrowing in our gardens, around our homes, in fields, woods, and even in the cracks of city sidewalksare God's wonderful gift to us. I often see burdock, red clover, dandelion, and plantain popping up in the |
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