Comment on Avoiding those “dangerous” herbal medicines… by Don.
This paragraph encapsulates it for me: “However, if the true motive of the regulatory authorities was to ensure the safety and effectiveness of medicines, they would be putting their resources into much more pressing priorities than the tiny herbal market with its pharmocopoeia of remedies which have, in many cases, a track record of centuries of use and which are, as a group, orders of magnitude safer than pharmaceutical drugs.”