Asia has a long history of traditional herbalism - Ayurvedic, Chinese, Tibetan and Unani medicine - which remains popular until today. - Zenonas Zolubas/Creative Commons
ASIA has a long history of traditional herbalism – think Ayurvedic, Chinese, Tibetan and Unani medicine.
The 1960s heralded a global shift towards synthetic medication, partly fuelled by advances in mapping the human genome and our understanding of molecular biology.
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