[belenos46]

Lots of examples. 'Thorsons Introductory Guide to Medical Herbalism' is, for example, both required reading for many modern medical degrees and a collection of hundreds (of documented; more realistically, thousands) of years of the medical practice of herbalism.

And if you want some anecdata, I've used plenty of preparations from that text for nausea, fever, menstrual cramps (not mine, clearly), poor clotting, sinus congestion, and likely some things that are slipping my mind.

Plants are where we get a lot of medicines from, and while modern pharmaceutical companies may prefer that information not get spread around (it's basically the whole reason we don't have a widespread practice of western medical herbalism in the US), but the fact remains that if you know how to get the medicine out of the plant, it's still totally possible to do so.

[tekla]

> it's basically the whole reason we don't have a widespread practice of western medical herbalism in the US

Lol, the west doesn't do herbalism because if it works, we just call it medicine.

[sonicshadow]

The west doesn’t believe in herbal remedies because they aren’t patentable by the pharma industrial complex to make $$$