“they are all “newly discovered.”
Not necessarily. That Willow Tree bark powder had been used for quite awhile before Herr Bayer put it in pill form and called it Asprin.
Thank you for explicitly stating the obvious to the troll.
I think the thread title suggests proprietary pharmaceuticals. Drug companies aren’t going to spend a billion dollars developing active ingredients that can’t be patented.
True. And many other remedies discovered over the millennia. I’m amazed at some of the discoveries. I started taking psyllium husk powder for gut health. Whoever would have thought of taking the husks from a seed and asking “I wonder what happens if we eat this sludge that forms after we mix the husks with water?”