Herbs and minerals are our most natural resource even before medicine became it's common. People have neglected the natural in defense of ills that create a harmful destruction to the body, this type of remedy is now considered alternative approach to medicine.  What is a given is that society has found a way to make money from medicine that is designed to slow the progression of illnesses but not necessarily cure them all together.  Therefore, medicine has not developed any one potion that can create a immunity to disease over time.

We have to consider what arrived first, prevention or cure? In prevention we have a known antidote that can immunize the body to thwart off disease and contamination. Thus, a treatment will attempt to accomplish the same but to what extent with regard to cost, mental and physical effect on the body?

In the natural defense by the intake of minerals and herbs the body will absorb and develop a tolerance to therefore begin to protect itself naturally from disease with less side affect as this prevention would be to develop defense against illness before potental onset.  If a body is not being supplemented naturally how can it be of defense to itself against any carcinogen and disease?  The cure and or medicine created to prolong is not of any defense for the future, it just infact attempts to kill and fight off what disease is in a body presently.

If white tea were used more commonly it may prove to be of resource against viruses like Lassa fever because it could rid the body of harmful toxins ingested.