People are taking more and more responsibility for their own health. It’s understandable that this hasn’t been the norm until now. It wasn’t all that long ago that we really didn’t have many options for our healthcare. Taking control of our health usually just meant knowing whether or not to go to the doctor. At best it could mean considering whether to get a second opinion or not. But the past decade or two have seen some major changes.

Part of the changes are in regard to our resources. We now have far more resources for healthcare available to us than people have ever had before. At the moment we can hear about almost any natural remedy from human history and order it whenever we want. There is the occasional plant which has been lost to time. And likewise, we can’t always be sure of what plants people referred to …