I don't particularly like using the term artificial either, even though I do get it. I think it's too glib-sounding... Too much of an implication of fakeness for my liking.
On the other hand, when you synthesize something in the lab, it could still be called 'artificial', but you take great care to get it just right.
/in which Shakey creates her own chemistry-based therapy nomenclature
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'...
At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
...'
Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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