Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor

Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a "discriminatory and disproportionate" European law.

With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for decades. Rest of article here

In they article they site adverse health affects that can sometimes happen well how about the government approved drugs that have killed people too, I think the real burr is that the drug companies don't own the natural ones.  If I want to put something into my body that's my decision so long as it does not affect anyone else. The only thing this is about is control. Damn it next thing they will tell us is that we can't pick our own noses..