Dominating, money-driven systems have taken over our food supply, our healthcare system, and co-opted our awareness of our natural deep intelligence and connectedness. Chronic inflammatory diseases thrive today because these larger systems have created the environment for them and have conditioned us to rely on these external power structures to make us well. Dr. Maker-Clark guides us to the medicines we really need, which are all around us. Most are free and vital parts of our ancestral cultures. The medicines in this book are all easily accessible and often immediately effective. Through these foods, breathwork practices, and movement, we create true wholeness, not by patching our pain with Band-Aids, convenient drugs, and drive-by doctor s visits. Awakening to these true medicines, going back to the sources, and integrating powerful healthful practices creates a path for individuals and communities to move toward radical social change. Medicine for All People is a manifesto whose goal is to help us heal from the individual and collective trauma of injustice and support a transition from a culture of stress and sickness to one of healing and belonging. Medicine for All People is a path to a blooming and vibrant future, through the accessible and deeply rooted wisdom of our collective past.
