I'm so glad plants exist 
we humans are kinda predisposed to pay attention to animals. plants merge in the background unnoticed, until you make a deliberate effort to learn their names by handling and looking and smelling and just IRL 3D interacting with them. once you know a plant it pops out to your brain, "oh there's some yarrow". and if you know how to use them it's "oh there's a good bunch of yarrow on this block huh, if I ever get wounded on this area I know where to go."
herbalists often call this to have an "ally". e.g. whenever I look at red clover I automatically think like, "high in isoflavones, coumarin, irilone. estrogenic, anti-thrombosis, progestinic. trans girl ally." and the way it feels to me is like, "ok girl you're on synth HRT that's #valid. but if those supply chains ever get disrupted? we're here for you."
St. John's wort? antidepressant, antiestrogenic. transmasc ally. "ever got a boy feeling down, can't access therapists for SSRIs, I'm proven to be as effective as pills, call me. you don't need a Termin or a Krankenkasse I'm here for you."
(also St. John's Wort: "btw I fuck up a lot of drugs so show some respect, do your research before trying me out")
some people: "that's all placebo plants don't do anything"
me who got my breasts to bud and curve my T-shirts on plants alone during the 6 months I was gatekept from HRT: sure bud, I guess all those chemicals are inert until you put them in a blister pack
@elilla It's an even more absurd argument when you consider that *the pharmaceutical industry itself* recognizes that they do in fact do something, because otherwise they wouldn't be in the 'interactions' section of medication
