Quoth AccountingDrone
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THIS is why I use pharmaceuticals rather than herbals, except when the herbal is known to be non-dangerous if taken in 'excess'. For instance, I'll have a lemon and honey 'tea' when I have a cold and want my sinuses cleared; both lemon and honey can be taken safely at much greater than the 'roughly a teaspoon' I use.
But unless the 'herbal medicine' is something like that, really, really think hard about how you 'know' the dosage of the active chemical in the herbal medicine; how you know impurities - especially dangerous ones - have been removed; and how you know that the dosage is effective for your particular situation.
You know ... the stuff that the medical profession has been working on since the first empirical test for scurvy medications, back in the Age of Sail.
(Yeah, there've been a lot of blunders, too. But that's when empirical testing in western medicine really started kicking off.)
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