Grasping at Grace (and Growth)

You betcha - and that's the whole point. People took slippery elm when there was no such thing as aspirin, then turned to aspirin, because it maximized what slippery elm had been able to do in a raw state. When research and development are able to do the same thing with milk thistle, it'll be way cool, and way helpful. But it'll be cool because of its quantifiable, identifiable, controllable, titratable ingredients.