ABSTRACT
The model for using Western herbs is ordinary or conventional medicine. This is true because ordinary medicine springs from the practice of herbal medicine as practiced by Hippocrates and Galen with synthetic or semisynthetic drugs used in place of plant-or animal-based medicines. Western, or perhaps more properly European, herbal medicine is practiced in the way that a single medicinal plant or a simple combination is used for a single body area or clinical problem. This style of prescribing is as old as humanity and, in some cases, it even extends into the animal kingdom.
