The trick, of course, is to not decimate the library while searching for a single best seller. Humans have a bad track record of that going back millennia. (See #Silphium.)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium

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Traditional healers, herbalists, Asian-medicine practitioners and NDs already know this. It’s only the rate poorly informed person in pharma-land who is surprised.

“As of September 2019, over 50% of currently available FDA-approved drugs are either directly or indirectly derived from natural products.”
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https://theconversation.com/nature-is-the-worlds-original-pharmacy-returning-to-medicines-roots-could-help-fill-drug-discovery-gaps-176963

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