The place where this gets really entertaining is certain areas of Wikipedia. Sometimes I research natural medicine by consulting the relevant articles there, an

The place where this gets really entertaining is certain areas of Wikipedia. Sometimes I research natural medicine by consulting the relevant articles there, and you can really tell when a substance is efficacious, because Wikipedia has gone out of its way to flatly deny the existence of evidence for that, and "the lady doth protest too much" about said lack of evidence. Of course there is abundant evidence that herbal/natural remedies work: thousands and thousands of years' worth, but said evidence has systematically been supressed, destroyed, and denied by that which came after it (many times, on behalf of the Catholic Church which sought to erase paganism in all its forms, which included herbalism and natural healing.) For example, the Aztecs used the poinsetta plant as an antipyretic, which may explain its quite widespread cultivation by the time that the Conquistadores arrived, who subsequently used it as a symbol of Christmas. But it's hilarious to read the medical "experts" of Wikipedia hold their breath and stamp their widdle feet as they insist that stuff doesn't work, because nobody's dissected and tested it in a sterile lab over the last 50 years.