Ace, don't be offended. You state why you believe in it and I state why I'm skeptical. We're both allowed. Having an auto-immune disorder, I stay far away from anything herbal that doesn't have hard clinical evidence backing it up. For instance, I cannot take echinacea. My mother blithely doses herself and my father with everything under the sun, until her neurosurgeon and the oncologist said NO because they're seeing some problems. Many, many people are unaware of the contra-indications for herbal remedies because there are very few reputable case studies and sadly, due to the economics with the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA, unlikely to be.

My own neurologist promotes some homeopathic treatments, but only when he can find good clinical studies to back up his recommendation.