The enemy of sensible plant use is patents. Monopoly in Pharma. Another ban a-borning: Wyeth pushing FDA to ban plant extracts for treatments

Sassafras and its ban (sassafras safrole can't be patented) and the estrogen issue - same issue with Wyeth-Big-Pharma and use of horse urine instead of natural plant extracts? See post at Sassafras Tree. Those sites can go in either blog.

For all this, the argument is not that plants are better than lab chemicals - plants have big downsides. See Herbal Misconceptions at www.tinajuanfitness.info/articles/art091598.

The position here is to approach the topic with equal testing, and information and doses, not arbitrary and self-serving bans on the plant sources. Monopoly in Pharma. Acting badly.