Chris Kilham, an ethnobotanist and medicine hunter who has traveled the world for over 20 years working with medicinal plants, echoed Helene's sentiments.
But if medicine is being priced based on factors that have little to do with medicinal value, then patients are being duped.
Tories will cure with medicinal fiscal discipline.
Chimps dose themselves with medicinal plants when they are sick.
Soon, thick warm sesame oil infused with medicinal herbs began to permeate my meager muslin thong.
"Not a normal bamboo", explained Kong Wei, "but one with medicinal qualities".
There was a time when Ms. MacLuan sowed the dirt with medicinal herbs.
Intriguingly, another Neanderthal showed evidence of the use of plants with medicinal value.
The monasteries had a pharmacy and frequently a garden with medicinal plants.
He infuses pisco with medicinal desert herbs such as rica-rica, known by locals to alleviate everything from stomach ache to altitude sickness.
That perception, experts say, is fueled in part by wider familiarity with medicinal marijuana and greater ease in obtaining it.
