Natural products have been used for healing since ancient times. The father of medicine, Hippocrates, treated pains and fevers with a preparation made from white willow bark. But some natural products quickly proved to be toxic, particularly botulinum toxin, one of the world’s most virulent poisons, responsible for serious neurological diseases. In France, 5% of poisonings detected by poison control centers are of plant origin.
Everything is chemical in nature. Life is based on chemical reactions, and all living matter, including humans, is made up of chemicals. Plants are actually real chemical factories in miniature, capable of synthesizing several different molecules, sometimes so complex that it is impossible even for a chemist to synthesize them in a laboratory. You probably have no idea that strawberries contain dozens of chemical molecules, dyes and even…
Source: Le Figaro
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