Before commercial pharmaceuticals existed as big business, even before the dawn of patent medicines—“cures” concocted by doctors or chemists or even quacks—there existed an agrarian culture that went back thousands of years, one that used time-tested herbs and other healing plants to combat sickness and disease, treat wounds and infections, and help ease pregnancy and childbirth.
Dried herbs
Hibiscus
Spikenard
Cinnamon tea
Garlic and onions