Hello
It is the dose that makes the poison, with tomato leaves we can do poison.
This is accurate and therefore nuanced since it is increasingly recognized that the mere presence, regardless of the dose, can be harmful to health. Execute the alcohol!
I think it is "modern man" with his technology who seeks to concentrate, isolate the most active molecules from others, or even manufacture them (to earn more money in the process.)
And then we observe the side effects (as with white sugar, white flour, and other white powders ...)
Indeed (refined) sugar is not, in the pharmacological sense, a poison and yet its repeated action leads to an organic degradation following all the dangerous manipulations that it will have undergone.
"Chemistry" is used to isolate the active ingredient from a plant.
Chemistry (in the sense of its structure) and biochemistry are confused too easily, that is to say where components are not detached from their biological context.
The goal is to limit and control the undesirable effects, inevitable for an effective drug such as aspirin for example.
The problem is that isolating components of a product, such as willow or others, it induces effects poorly or not perceived during these manipulations. The debates between doctors underline, almost unanimously, that aspirin (which is a fluidifier of the blood) leads to haemorrhages, particularly stomach, especially since this product is on sale and therefore out of any prescription and, according to these same doctors and researchers, today aspirin would probably no longer obtain its MA.
On the other hand, among others:
http://www.plantes-et-sante.fr/jardiner ... la-douleur
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré