[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Of course most modern drugs are derived from natural sources, what's your point???

Prior to the 20th century, all "drugs" are what we would call alternative medicine today. So what.

The choice we have today is whether to take a purified, potent, natural or synthesized pharmaceutical, or just go ahead and get treated as you would have in the 6th century.

If you have a tachyarrhythmia you can take 0.25 mg of pure, synthesized digoxin, or screw around with 1/4 or 1/2 leaf of digitalis, ?size, ? potency

If you have small cell carcinoma of the lung, you can have your oncologist give you an IV infusion of purified taxol, or you can have you "naturopath" recommend you chew on Pacific yew bark

If you have a bad case of influenza A, you can take 75 mg of Tamiflu 2x/day or suck on zinc lozenges all day.

In each example, which do you think is more effective. And skip the crap about "side effects" and "natural cure"----death is natural as well.

Well said.