The soft drink industry is trying to change face in the midst of the rising health epidemics of Obesity and Diabetes that it is causing. Coke is launching a new coke with vitamins added and Pepsi is now launching a beverage with some natural ingredients. But are they any better that before?

Western herbal medicine has its roots both in the indigenous practices of the British Isles (Bryce, 1988), and in the European and Greco-Roman traditions, and can be traced back to prominent physicians such as Hippocrates (Acker, 1995).