Peg,

My point is not to disparage anybody--as I said, I am a great believer in alternative medical treatments--However, many people who buy aromatherapy products, herbal medicines, and alternative medicines, do buy them from *part time* people who have no formal qualifications to recommend treatments or remedies, but often ask for therapeutic advice from these people, they usually give it, and, at least if customers use what they buy, they follow that advice--this is not a good thing, no matter what kind of medicine one believes in--

The real problem is that medical knowledge is still pretty much a blank area for most people--Dr. Mark has shared a bit of information on body temperature that most lay people have never learned--and yet most people, most of the time, are their own doctors, diagnosing and treating fevers and whatever other health problems that they have, by choosing from the stock at the drugstore or supermarket--

And, on the occasion that they do visit a trained physician, most people don't understand enough of what they are told to make good choices about the treatments that are offered--This is the biggest problem of all--