It’s often dumb too, there is nothing denoting plant smells as to one gender. The smell of flowers, of herbs, is not something one sex apreciates more than another.

Only in the modern era with the advent of drugs and the destruction of small farmers and even most vegetable and herb gardens, with 99 percent of produce coming from factory farms, has it been seen as weak and womanly for men to use herbal medicines, and to appreciate flowers and herbs and the like.

For thousands of years we used plants for medicine, and not it’s seen as womanly, and of course the drug companies have campaigned to remove our rights to do it completely, for our own protection. We could hurt ourselves, leave it to the trained professionals that operate on the rules government stipulates. As if we could all get medical coverage and drug coverage in this medical hellscape even if we did surrender our rights to treat ourselves.

I don’t think I should have to get a permission slip from a doctor to do things all generations prior to the last few have.

What a wild pivot from “flowers are for all genders” to 'bring back homeopathic medicine, I don’t need no stinking doctors telling me what plants I should rub on my wounds!" lmao

Herbal medicine is how we created aspirin, and is a mix of actually effective things that have become medicine over time and placebos. It generally has positive outcomes.

Homeopathic ‘medicine’ is magic water that heals with vibrations. It is 100% bullshit.

Nicolas Culpeper wrote his Complete Herbal in the mid 17th century, and I think I’m right in saying it’s never been out of print. It’s a great read - if you ever imagined travelling back in time to his day, this book would put you right off. It’s full of remedies for foul ulcers, bloody flux and plague sores.

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