A Free Lotus!
First of all, let's start with the AWESOME news. We've freed the LOTUS! This means that you can earn this alternative health token by using it on any alternative health content - from meditation to tai chi, yoga to plant based, herbalism to keto, if you have LOTUS staked and you vote on #lotus tagged content, you can earn this token.
And if you'd like to get in touch with some great ideas for use of this token, get in touch! The 
A Good Bye - or a Brand New Beginning?
They say that all good things must come to an end.
As sad as this may be, the good things are ending here at Natural Medicine as we say goodbye to this beautiful, heartfelt, compassionate and caring collective. Started in 2018, we feel proud that we’ve been a source of abundance for many. Through curation, challenges and people just generally being awesome, we’ve worked hard to support as many people as we can. Our curators have worked tirelessly to fight plagiarism, help newbies, find support for undervalued posts, and bring excellent editorials on natural health to the HIVE ecosystem. So many people have given us the warm fuzzies for what we’ve done, and hand on hearts, we feel we’ve made a difference. But now, we arrive at our end - or perhaps just a new beginning.
A few months back,
Whilst we tried our best to find a ‘new’ Natural Medicine take hold, the pandemic has taken its toll on many of us, restructuring our lives both on and off chain in ways we couldn’t have anticipated. No one could possibly commit to what this community demands, and in some ways, we’ve been a victim of our own success. We came to realise that the amount of man hours needed to fight plagiarism, engage with people, and make sure the content was of an excellent standard and maintain community through challenges as well as upvotes, reblogs, tweets and the tokenomics was way beyond what any of us could possibly commit to. This has not been without trying our best, and our fair share of grief and heartache, and painstaking efforts to balance HIVE time and real life time with family, jobs, friends and keeping our mental health in check.
Thus, in the last fortnight, we’ve all begun the process of letting go of Natural Medicine in it's current form. The remaining funds will be powered down (save a little to keep the account voting on alternative health content for delegators) and distributed to the communities who we feel are important personally, due to our shared love of alternative content, gardening, plant medicine and so on. All the LOTUS tokens the account has earnt will be sent to 
Whilst this might seem drastic, in all good ethics, we can’t just let the community limp on in a semi ghost mode. Many of us feel a great deal of responsibility for it and for HIVE itself, and we’d rather come out honestly and say: we’re sorry, we’ve done our best, but now it’s time for a change. Many of us are still committed to HIVE and it’s communities and feel our attention is much better directed into particular areas rather than spreading ourselves as thin as we have.
We hope that our efforts to be transparent are heard. We recognise that those who have invested in our token might be disappointed, but in the face of insurmountable difficulties and the human and financial resources needed to progress it, we simply could not find a way to make it reach its potential. We all feel a twinge of heartache that our dreams were not to be, or are at least postponed until someone comes along to make LOTUS reach the potential we were dreaming about.
However, there’s not one person in the LOTUS team that is totally disappearing on HIVE - we are around in various communities and in various roles, and we hope that in our various ways, we are still very much helping HIVE to reach it's potential, and keeping alternative health alive here as much as we can.
We're not really going, just changing.
FAQ
Q: What happens with the token?
A: Nothing! It's still going! But you'll use the tag #lotus instead to earn it.
Q: Where can I delegate now?
A: Oh goodness, we're glad you asked! There's two new #Lotus communities on HIVE - Plant Power (Vegan) and The Herbal Hive. We suggest you delegate to them! They've got support from The Abundance Tribe and are guaranteed to support #herbalism #lotus #vegan #fungimedicine #plantmedicine #herbalmedicine #plantbased content. See the links below! BUT if you want to keep your delegation to Natural Medicine, this is also a great idea - we set it up on HIVE.vote to autovote on anything that
The Herbal Hive community and curation account is
Plant Power Vegan Community and curation account is
We suggest 
Q: What about the Discord?
A: If you're in the Discord, hang around! We're just renaming it 'Lotus Tribes' - you'll find both Plant Power and The Herbal Hive there, but many of us are keen to chat about alternative health, so feel free to pop in!
Q: I still love the community and I can't find a 'natural medicine' community that fits my content as well. Can I still post there?
A: Absolutely. And if you subscribe to that community, you can still vote on the great content that appears there. Curators will still notice you. Don't forget to use the #lotus tag too!