One thing I have found interesting lately reading about medicine is how some researchers are actually finding that sometimes it is better to leave certain herbs intact as various chemicals work synergistically. Sort of like how in cannabis you have THC and CBD. CBD apparently mellows out the psychoactive effect of THC.

I think we are going to learn this about a lot of medicines. They like to isolate components because it is patentable. Not to say this is always a bad thing though.