I have no itention of hijacking this thread and my apologies to Lynne for detracting from her original intent. Herbalism is interesting and rewarding in many, many ways and I am happy to see a well-thought-out program presented to those who would like to continue the tradition. And I reiterate my best wishes for its success.

As a system of medication, however, it's time is done and I believe it is a piss-poor pretender to "conventional medicine."

Your post of 12:12 above suggests to me you don't know a great deal about herbal medicine.

I hope you pay better attention to your new vocation than you did to the time signature, moo. I have a great deal of expertise on snake-oil salemen.

Peace out ...