Molecular Multitasking is presented as a novel core concept for herbal medicine, welding molecular physiology and biology with traditional
Western herbal therapeutics. This approach incorporates the latest developments in scientific understanding without contravening the basic principles
of vitalism, a problem inherent in most recent interpretations of scientific phytotherapy.The physiomedicalist analysis of food, medicine and poison
will be revisited in terms of recent basic science research into chemo-preventive properties of botanicals. This model will be applied to cancer to illustrate therapeutic implications for treatment of chronic disease.