Many of those types of countries you mention also are in ignorance of the natural things around them that could be of help. It's not the fault of the herbs...it's the lack of education that causes the misery and death.Native Americans are a good example. There is a long standing wealth of knowledge about healing and using herbs in Native tradition, yet when you look at what goes on in the tribes now there's squallor, alcoholism and drugs, obesity, violence....they have forgotten the ways of their grandfathers. The plants and nature surround them still but they no longer "see". Or perhaps they've been "corrupted" by the "white man"'s ways? Diabetes is a rampant disease in Native Americans.The best that medical Science can offer is insulin shots for life and blood Sugar monitors. Meanwhile the traditional remedies they could use, such as tea made from cedar or juniper berries (which grows all around them in the Southwest), rarely get mentioned, let alone taking chromium supplements to improve pancreas function and detoxing the organs from the white flour/white suger lifestyle that got them there in the first place.
Pharmaceuticals are synthesized...MAN MADE. Man cannot improve upon that which God has made perfect, IMO. Every time man tried, the result is side effects and more misery. The difference between a native chewing a leaf off a bush and pure concentrated cocaine(which does not occur in nature without man's help)
Science has declared so many conditions incurable...herpes, cancer, diabetes, muscular dystrophy....on and on. They hold tv telethons to raise money and say..."we're SO close now to a cure" year after year yet it never happens. Cancer is a multibillion dollar industry. If it's cured think of how many jobs and university grants are lost. They have "walks" to cure heart disease, then they all go out for dinner afterwards and eat the very things which give them heart disease. And the bottom line is none of the "science" researchers will look at or acknowledge most of the claims of remedies or cures from alternative or natural healing modalities because there's no BIG BUCKS to be made there. Or else someone will come out with a biased report debunking any given remedy or therapy as "quackery" despite hundreds of people being helped for hundreds of years by the same therapy. And very few are willing to change or give up the lifestyle habits that are feeding their diseases. They just want to take the one pill "cure" and go on eating, drinking, and smoking whatever they damn well please with no consequences.
For someone so into mainstream science, you're posting in a very odd place. Just about every topic in this Curezone forum is not recognized by your science.
"what is impossible with man is possible with God"