When Rockefeller was looking to make even more money out of his oil and chemical interests he came across pharmaceuticals and got involved with the Germany company IG Farben.

To help his new manufactured drugs project along he financed universities and medical schools that would teach about his new drugs and he had the textbooks rewritten.

Since then, all natural remedies have been eschewed, deprecated and ridiculed. Why allow people to use a natural remedy when you can put it in a tablet, patent it, and sell it for a small fortune? When the patent runs out, you add another ingredient and patent that!

EDIT: I forgot to mention, his father travelled the US selling a remedy made from, I think, rock oil and water. When it was discovered that it did not cure anything he just moved his wagon, and family, to the next town so JD knew that you could sell anything as a medicine and get away with it.

When Rockefeller was looking to make even more money out of his oil and chemical interests he came across pharmaceuticals and got involved with the Germany company IG Farben.

To help his new manufactured drugs project along he financed universities and medical schools that would teach about his new drugs and he had the textbooks rewritten.

Since then, all natural remedies have been eschewed, deprecated and ridiculed. Why allow people to use a natural remedy when you can put it in a tablet, patent it, and sell it for a small fortune? When the patent runs out, you add another ingredient and patent that!