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Faith makes regulating herbal medicine difficult


Faith makes regulating herbal medicine difficult
A judge this week called for traditional medicine to be regulated, but it’s not easy when practitioners make claims based on faith You may have read about Ying Wu this week: a traditional Chinese medicine doctor operating out of a shop in Chelmsford, Essex, who for several years prescribed pills with high doses of a dangerous substance to treat the acne of senior civil servant Patricia Booth, 58 …

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