TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINES ARE NOT WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE
March 1st, 2016
Several brands of traditional Chinese medicines have been found to contain illegal substances not fit for human consumption, according to a study carried out by Australia’s Perth-based Curtin University, Murdoch University, also in Perth, and the University of Adelaide.
Researchers from the three universities tested 26 widely available medicines and found that more than 90% of them contained ingredients not listed on the products’ labels.
Half contained toxic amounts of heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium and lead, and another contained strychnine, often ...
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