Healing Herbs from Your Kitchen

There are alternatives to Big Pharma. Patricia Renard Scholes became introduced to herbal medicine when told her about an article that said those who have been prescribed simvastatin, a generic statin drug used to treat high cholesterol, have a fifty-percent chance of developing Parkinson's-like symptoms if they go off the drug.

This was the drug her doctors had prescribed for her. She became enraged. Why had her doctors poisoned her? Didn't they know about alternatives that wouldn't cause a...