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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Phytochemical researcher [[Varro Eugene Tyler]] described paraherbalism as "faulty or inferior herbalism based on pseudoscience", using scientific terminology but lacking scientific evidence for safety and efficacy. Tyler listed ten [[fallacy|fallacies]] that distinguished herbalism from paraherbalism, including claims that there is a [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy]] to suppress safe and effective herbs, herbs can not cause harm, that whole herbs are more effective than molecules isolated from the plants, herbs are superior to drugs, the [[doctrine of signatures]] (the belief that the shape of the plant indicates its function) is valid, dilution of substances increases their potency (a doctrine of the pseudoscience of [[homeopathy]]), astrological alignments are significant, animal testing is not appropriate to indicate human effects, [[anecdotal evidence]] is an effective means of proving a substance works and herbs were created by God to cure disease. Tyler suggests that none of these beliefs have any basis in fact.</div>FuzzyBot