Boy what a mouthful of mush! I dont trust pharmaceuticals because in just a short period they have proven to be derilect! Name it is has a bad rep! They all have huge potential for toxicity with reletively small doses! And as usual your attitude that allopathic pharmaceutical medicine is the standard and everything else is substandard is just your bigotry talking !
But good for you, I wonder how many dbble blind studies where done on opiates lol! before they where used as a pain killer lol! I have a pharmacist friend who admits that only opiates and aspirin have any real affect in the drug store and they are both old herbal remedies anyway so you in a sense have benefitted from herbal remedies without your own knowledge!
So yah ok you have an open mind! lolol!