During the last 200 years pills have become kind of the holy grale for medicine. Although there is some evidence, that few illnesses, especially mental ones, can be treated successfully by these drugs doctors still stick to them in an unprecedented way. Old wisdom falls victim to aggressive marketing and an industry mainly focused on profit. Potent healing plants get prohibited or stigmatized and illnesses often don't get a treatment in order to be cured, but to generate new loyal customers betraying the trust of whole societies.
