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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks Roxann, You explain things in a way that is easy to understand.  I 
follow the direction of your thinking;  But, I'm still trying to learn how to 
make what you wrote and what what Wendy and other have said, also -- 
practical for me.

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--- On Sat, 12/27/08, roxann <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com> wrote:

> Yes, I mean the allopathic drugs prescribed by doctors. The reason I don't 
> trust them is because our bodies did not evolve to recognize them as they 
> have with plants and herbs. A prescription drug isolates one compound or 
> one component of what makes a plant effective (if it is a plant-based
drug), and then synthetically reproduces it. Herbs contain dozens or more 
components that work together to bring about a change or make an effect, and 
even though sciences identifies one or two of them as the 'active'
ingredient, they all work together and i don't like separating out the 
'active' ingredient. For example,the plant once used in a lot of diet 
products, ephedra, has...............................................