Remedies

We’d be the first to agree that modern medicine has moved us on enormously and enabled us to cure and alleviate the symptoms of all sorts of illnesses that were previously impossible to resolve. However, it’s worth remembering that many modern medicines have their basis in natural products and that it’s not entirely coincidental that the big pharmaceutical companies spend time and money searching for and testing plant extracts from the remote parts of the world in the hope of finding compounds that can be used to develop new drugs