Imagine you have two types of people who help you feel better when you are sick. One is your grandma, who makes homemade soup and gives you warm hugs to make you feel better. The other is a doctor who gives you medicine in a bottle. Sometimes, big companies make the medicine in the bottle, and they are like the pharmaceutical companies.
Pharmaceutical companies spend lots of money to make the medicine in the bottle. They want people to buy their medicine because that's how they make money. But sometimes, people also talk about natural ways to feel better like eating fruits and vegetables or doing yoga.
Pharmaceutical companies might not like these natural ways because they can't make money from them. They want people to buy their medicine instead. So, they might try to ignore or dismiss natural healing to make sure more people buy their medicine.
It's like if your friend made delicious lemonade and wanted everyone to drink it, but a big lemonade company didn't like that because they want people to buy their lemonade. The big lemonade company might say bad things about your friend's lemonade to make people buy theirs instead.
So, pharmaceutical companies dismiss natural healing sometimes because they want people to buy their medicine and not use natural ways to feel better. It's important to remember that both medicine and natural healing can help us feel better, and we should listen to our bodies to know what is best for us!