He mentions that over the last decade the number of studies on natural medicine published in major scientific journals has soared from the single digits to around 15,000, and that Bastyr University has analyzed the components and medicinal properties of 126 medicinal herbs, including milk thistle's efficacy in treating liver disease and St. John's wort's antidepressive properties.
陳俊旭舉例，過去 10 年間，在各大知名的科學期刊文獻上，自然醫學的研究報導從個位數躍升為 1 萬 5,000 篇；巴斯帝爾大學已分析出 126 種草藥的成分與療效，例如：奶薊子可治療肝病；聖約翰草能治療憂鬱症… …，全都通過臨床實驗且可以重複驗證。