The Native American traditions gained more followers each year and nowadays it became an important part of the ‘healthy lifestyle’ to include their recipes among the daily rutines. Marie Miczak in her book Nature’s Weeds, Native Medicines: Native American Herbal Secrets states that in the 21st century the Native American mixtures are no longer considered as only folk medicine. As she explains, “scientific studies done in this country and abroad have given us perceptiveness as to the therapeutic action of numerous herbal formulas”. There is also a job created for scientists by the Merck and Company pharmaceutical center in the topic; they have to study aboriginal medicine and separate those that are mostly useless from those that are actually working.
All in all, there might be some Native American medicine recipes that are not that trustworthy or serious, but if the biggest pharmaceutical companies study and plan to use their traditional potions, the Native American healers must know something.
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