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- Embed this noticePlenty of homeopathic stores sell willow bark pills. It's not some wide ranging conspiracy, it's industrialization. Producing enough willow trees to put willow bark in every wal mart in america is very expensive. Much cheaper to synthezise it, and eventually make E. Coli produce it.
This is why drug discovery proceeds in this way;
Step 1: find natural product that does something.
Step 2: Find out which part of the natural product is active.
Step 3: Find a way to make that active form from some other component.
Step 4: Get E. Coli to grow it.
Step 5: Profit.