In the modern era, so-called “medicine” no longer bears any resemblance to the art and science of healing. Instead of being a practice whereby your body’s innate self-healing capabilities are aided, it has become a business enterprise focused solely on money. If the truth about your body’s self-regenerative capabilities were acknowledged, conventional medicine would collapse overnight.
No disease is caused by the lack of a drug. In fact, many diseases are caused by repeated exposure to chemicals that are biologically alien to your body. Drug based medicine is treating poisoning with poisons -- it may be more accurate to call it a form of sorcery, rather than medicine. Hundreds of thousands of people die each year in the U.S. as a direct result of medical treatment.
According to Green Med Info:
"A Pharmakós ... in Ancient Greek religion was a kind of human scapegoat ... expelled from the community at times of disaster ... Calling pharmaceutically-based medicine sacrifice-based, is not just metaphor. Animal sacrifice, in fact, undergirds the entire evidence-based model of drug development and testing, requiring millions of animals be tortured and destroyed every year ... The reality is that medical practice, and the science that informs it, is as much mythos as logos, and one no longer has to look to religion for the absolutist claim to truth. Medical science has laid claim to the body in the same way that religions once laid claim to the soul.”