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Even chimpanzees do it. Man has used herbs as medicines for at least 5,000 years, and monkeys may have preceded us. We don’t know. We do know that they take the bitter herb aspilia to get rid of internal parasites. They don’t eat this for fun. They wince as they swallow it, and they swallow it without chewing.
Maybe too many of us swallow without chewing the belief that herbs can’t do us any harm, that they are safe because they are natural. But that is not always the case, warns Dr. Varro E. Tyler of Purdue University School of Pharmacy … Continue Reading