Allopathic medicines (pharmaceuticals), the bulk of which come from plants, are an important source of primary health care for 2 1/2 to 3 billion people in the developing world.  Aspirin, digitalis, and morphine were all folk remedies long before they were discovered by modern medicine. Unfortunately,  modern medicine's new techniques: A) Extrapolate the active ingredient,  B) Synthetically re-create the biomolecular structure (designer drugs) and, C)  "PRESCRIPTION ONLY" to monopolize the market on herbal ingredient by the pharmaceuticals lead to:

1. Detrimental toxicity to the liver and body.
2. In high potency drugs, the side effects can be greater than the healing effect, especially when taken
for long periods of time.
3. Abandoning the old way of preparing the medicinal herbs (discovered over the millenniums) with the
whole plant and its God designed natural enzymes.  This time proven method was abandoned over the
last 70 yrs by pharmaceutical companies for high quantity active ingredient extrapolation techniques
and toxic synthetic designer drugs.                                                                                                      The third statement readily opposes the ancient methods as seen with Chinese herbology, for example:
a.  Chinese herbologist feels that if the herbal remedy is not expected to work immediately and if the
remedy has not worked in approximately 2 weeks, it is not appropriate for the ailment.
b.  The Chinese use herbs and formulas to balance the meridians or energies which in turn effectively
assist the bodies innate healing mechanisms to heal itself, not mask the bodies warning systems 
or override the bodies innate healing systems as seen in U.S. conventional medicines.