Natural medicine

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20140609-131452-47692533.jpg At a Sunday street market in Merida, MX. Every convenience store also sells remedies of questionable efficacy. A tour guide twice brought up the effects of particular foods on one's health... spinach is good for the blood and Coca-Cola light is bad for the pancreas.

What drives the purchase of and culture of so-called "natural medicine"?