I have been following the herb posts with interest.  I wish I were wiser in
herbal lore.  Personally, I have used a few herbal remedies and at least one
homeopathic remedy very successfully (or was it my mind-over-matter??  Who
knows??)  But I tend to agree with Julie Graves Moy that caution is needed.
 I've posted before about the mother who presented with a baby who sweated
like crazy and had forceful vomiting tho was otherwise healthy and
well-growing.  After much digging, discovered mom was drinking 3-4 cups of
strongly brewed camomile tea every day to accomplish soothing of infant and
herself.  A perusal of R. Lawrence's article about herbs (where she discusses
Mother's Milk Tea, etc) listed toxic effects of too much camomile as sweating
and vomiting.  Behaviors stopped when tea discontinued.

The problem is that most people don't have access to a trained, skilled
herbalist.  A lot of the  people I run into read about something somewhere in
who knows what source, or their aunt tells them, and they are pretty sure
they remember what she said to do...  Many people believe that anything worth
dosing is worth over-dosing.  More is better.  They do the same thing with
vitamins and with drugs.  All of which is dangerous.  I think it's a
testimony to human hardiness that we all don't drop dead of our own excesses.

Barbara Wilson-Clay, BSE, IBCLC
priv. pract. Austin, Tx