If it can sell a pill that does nothing more than a cup of tea can do, it will outlaw tea as a cure.
And this criminal activity is not something the pharma industry has to discuss. It's baked into their brains and corporate structure. There's not so much as a wink and a nod...they are wired to destroy any competing products even if such products are plentiful, free, and even more effective.
Here's the humble beginnings of the pharma industry (and they haven't actually changed):
I like that pic, , side show quackery indeed.
It is one of the main reasons the government and all their alphabet agencies (many on the take from Big Pharma) go after homeopathic medicine like it causes the Black Plague and has to be forced through court orders sometimes to tell Big Pharma to take a medicine KNOWN TO CAUSE HEALTH RISKS off the market!!