>Doug also asks:
>
>> If there really were an untapped trove of "cures" in the
>>alternative armamentarium, wouldn't the drug industry be all over
>>them, trying to standardize, patent, and overcharge?
>
>Patent is the problem. You cannot patent something found in nature.
But you can patent substances removed from nature and subsequently processed. As I recall, many, if not a majority, of commercial drugs originate in plants. And if it were removed & processed, doses could be standardized in ways they can't be now. No?
Doug