That sounds accurate. Plants do have tons of chemicals, some of them may have very potent effects on the body chemistry. Unlike homeopathy where the proposed ef

That sounds accurate. Plants do have tons of chemicals, some of them may have very potent effects on the body chemistry. Unlike homeopathy where the proposed effect model defies physics, there's nothing implausible here, the problem with herbal remedies may be that ingesting a very complex cocktail of chemicals and thinking "it's fine because it's natural" is not always the best approach. It's usually not easy to properly understand what happens when ingesting such mixtures. Evolutionary, things that are very likely to seriously hurt you have been probably excluded by now, but it's still pretty poorly understood what exactly is going on when you use some "natural herbal mix". So, anybody who makes bold claims about what exactly is the action of this or that herbal remedy, usually is not painting the whole picture.