Almost one fourth of pharmaceutical drugs are derived from botanicals? Modern medicine alters the natural state of the plant chemical and the end result is a chemically synthesised end product.
Mankind’s search for drugs made by nature dates back centuries with the intention of discovering treatment for illness. In human history the struggle with illness led to the pursuit of therapeutic effects of plant parts and their constituents, mainly via traditional tribes, soon discovered by explorers and then trained professionals in the modernised world.
Modern science acknowledged the active action in plants and continued to include findings in modern pharmacotherapy to create a range of synthesised drugs based on plant constituents.
You can now understand that plant & herbal medicine and its effectiveness to treat illness has been successfully used for centuries!