When dealing with central regulators, you have to be more cynical. For instance:
The group's ultimate goal is to catalog all folk remedies, making sure the plants are saved in botanical gardens and the products patented country by country. It also envisions writing common codes of ethics and training for folk healers.
"Patented" means regulation according to the patent, which means reserving distribution and use by some with restrictions to others. "Common codes of ethics" means legislation, which means punishment for those who go against the legislation, and once the regulations are in place, they can be easily made more narrow and restrictive. "Training for folk healers" means licensing and punishment for those who refuse to get licenses, and once the licensing procedure is in place, the procedures can easily be made more norrow and restrictive, and expensive.
All the above will ultimately be controlled by whom? Why, those with clout and money, of course. And who would you suppose that would be? 