Better Living Through Chemicals

Isn't there just a part of you that really really wants to believe there is some herbal remedy concatenated in the mysterious orient for anything that might be afflicting you? Doesn't it seem nice to think that over the course of centuries a culture refined and perfected ways for us to treat various medical issues without the use of synthesized chemicals? Yeah I want to believe it too. For the record I'm not a chemist so I guess I really don't know if there might be medicinal value to something like tea or ground up roots from some obscure vegetable. The thing that makes me suspicious though is the people I get this information from, yoga people will go on and on about the long term health benefits of these exotic flora and then they'll say something like; "In ancient China they used grass milk and zumba bark to treat cancer." Or "In India they use florescent fish oil to ward off phenomena." When I hear this I can't help but think have you seen China and India? You really think they have medicine all figured out?