The Lost Art of Medicine

Healing, like growing food, was never meant to be outsourced. It was meant to be lived, practiced, remembered, and passed down.

At one time, it was normal for every household to have some working knowledge of herbal medicine. Shutterstock

Commentary

We often talk about the lost arts of cooking and growing food. We lament the fact that modern people don’t know how to bake bread from scratch or coax tomatoes from a small patch of soil. But there is another kind of loss happening quietly, almost invisibly, and it may be even more consequential for our future.