I've got arthritis of both feet and left hand, Spondylitis of the spine and neck, and I take it for the pain relief.
In my backward country (Britain) the same thing happens all the time, I think the big pharmaceutical companies
Lobbying the government might have something to do with it. just doesn’t make any sense to give chemicals instead
of nature’s own cure, not cost affective to the state or the taxpayer, only the pharmaceutical companies make the big bucks.