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Herbal Medicine
Unsafe Imports Slip Through Regulatory Net
AP - Sun Mar 19th 2006 at 9:16 pm ET
What it didn't say was that the herbal medicine, on sale at a store in Queens, contained 2,190 times the amount of mercury considered safe by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Chinese medicine kills one child, makes 151 sick
Reuters - Tue Jun 21st 2005 at 10:56 am ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - Herbal medicine prescribed to primary schoolchildren in southwest China to ward of chickenpox killed one and made 151 sick, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
Need help cutting back on alcohol? Try kudzu
Reuters - Tue May 17th 2005 at 1:57 am ET
Kudzu is one of the ingredients of the Chinese herbal medicine XJL, otherwise known as NPI-028, used for hundreds of years in China to treat inebriation.
Traditional Medicine Derivatives Kill Cancer Cells
Reuters - Tue Apr 19th 2005 at 12:46 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Compounds derived from indirubin, a component of a Chinese herbal medicine, can cause human cancer cells to self-destruct, researchers have shown.
Most Older Adults Use Alternative Medicine
Reuters - Mon Apr 11th 2005 at 11:55 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than 70 percent of adults aged 50 or older use some type of alternative therapy, such as herbal medicine, meditation, or seeing a chiropractor, according to new study findings.
Some Herbs May Help Ease Children's Ills
Reuters - Wed Mar 16th 2005 at 6:22 pm ET
"They need to recognize that treatment of any disease with an herbal medicine is really drug therapy, not dietary supplementation," she told Reuters Health.
No Evidence That Echinacea Treats Colds
Reuters - Fri Mar 4th 2005 at 12:19 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most of the major studies on the effectiveness of echinacea for treatment of the common cold contain major flaws, suggesting that research has not yet established that this herbal medicine is effective, according to a new report.