Nature Medicine
How plants, animals and natural compounds became the medicines in your cabinet
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May 13, 2026
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They Were Chewing The Answer For 10,000 Years Before Science Arrived
We produce 40,000 tonnes of it every year. It sits in every medicine cabinet on earth. And it started with a tree that humans were chewing for pain relief three and a half thousand years before any chemist arrived.
