Pharmaceuticals tend to isolate one aspect of a natural substance and expect it will have better effects concentrated and standardized without the other items naturally occurring in the original substance and often working in synergy...
I'm no fan of pharma... they fuck up most of whatever they get their hands on...
The number 1 goal of creators of pharmaceuticals: to make them patentable. They are NOT the same as the naturally occurring substances. They are fucked with and made completely unnatural. They do not occur in nature.
And actually, people who use natural remedies are nowhere near as stupid as Oak and Dovey want to believe.
The main problem is that Big Pharma has refused for decades to do proper studies of natural remedies because they are only interested in what's patentable. This has caused remedies that are naturally occurring and are not toxic but are healing to be ignored. That is a tragedy for everyone who could be helped by them.
And anyone with a lick of sense knows there are toxic substances in nature. I am sure it's comforting to convince yourself that we are all too stupid to get that. Honestly, there are stupid people in both camps -- the pro-pharmas and the pro-natural remedies. To dismiss people who pursue natural remedies as all ignorant and to present yourself as some sort of holder of knowledge makes you look like a jackass.
SMDH @ all the ignorant assumptions and gross judgments.