Yepper.

Those "snake oil salesmen" were old-time herbalists, selling their compounds as remediies for all kinds of ills, and the mixtures WORKED!

Just before 1900, some of Rockefeller's scientists showed him how he could profit from making compounds from petroleum & BigPharma was born...

Then came the medical schols with enormouus endowments!

Then everyone had a car... and quit growing a garden, so they forgot how to eat produce in season, as God planned.

By the time the medical universities began turning out doctors, most honest old-time herbalists were driven out of business, or working at other occupations because their own was suddenly made "illegal."

Then, the most useful of plants were made illegal to grow or possess.

Ciinchona tree banned by Bill Clinton - quinine

Cannabiis banned by a deceived AMA & Congress, paid for by YELLOW JOURNALIST, William Randolph Hurst...

The Emperor Has No Clothes.