The view that 'medicine' can only be a physical substance consumed to make an ill person better is unfortunately a sequelae to the reductionist thinking that modern medical science has created.

This has bled through into the 'natural medicine' world with a belief that pharmaceutical medicines get replaced with 'natural' medicines derived from herbs and appropriated from folk/indigenous traditions.

The basis of TCM - as you know - is that illness comes from the deviation from one's 'true nature', and thus 'medicine' is anything which brings us back to that natural state.

And given we are not just a physiological body - we are also emotional, cognitive, spiritual beings - then there are many things that are 'medicine'.

Check out the details in the Natural Medicine Manifesto.

So much of what you do is 'medicine' in my opinion. Art is most definitely medicine, if not just for the artist themselves...

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