Was Whole Foods on strike or sumtin’ back then?
It almost sounds like they are saying the neanderthals were smarter than we are now. I bet their teachers weren’t a bunch of liberals. They say the Amazonian Rain Forest has all the medicine we would ever need if you know where to look and process it.
On “Survivor Man” he says that in most places if something will make you sick or hurt, there is another plant that will make you better growing in the same area.
Where I live we have prickly plant called “Devil’s Club” with big spikes and leaves that will act like stinging nettles. But - in the same forest is a fern with fern with very small leaves and you crush those up and some spit and it takes away the sting.
I was on a job and my knee went bad. I ran out of Advil but an Indian family gave me some balm made out of the Devil’s Club root. They viewed it as a cure-all for any kind of pain. (Didn’t work for a torn miniscus!)