Where does penicillin come from?
a fungus. Is it natural or man-made? There is no place where you can go pick a “penicillin bean” off a tree and eat it. Like almost all conventional medicines, penicillin is derived from a natural substance. The notion that medicines are man-made is inaccurate. Most herbs are treated in some way before they are used in the human body. Boiling, grinding, burning, leaching, chopping, distilling, filtering, bleaching, freezing, and dissolving in another material are all methods used in both herb medicines and conventional medicines. It is true that some conventional medicines may come from animal products, but the Chinese who are given credit for most herbal medicines also use many animal parts in their overall practices, and it is virtually impossible to eat without ingesting some animal material. Milk, butter, eggs, many oils, and virtually all substances from the sea have animal material in them. The point of this discussion is that all medicines–herbal or conventional–must be prepar
