Arsenic and Mercury in Traditional Chinese Herbal Balls

21 September 1995

journal article
letter
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 333 (12), 803-804
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199509213331217

Abstract

While examining imported traditional Chinese medicines for the presence of products from endangered species, we have detected potentially toxic levels of arsenic and mercury in certain herbal-ball preparations.

Keywords

ARSENIC
HERBAL BALL
ENDANGERED
MEDICINES
TOXIC
CHINESE HERBAL
TRADITIONAL CHINESE
MERCURY IN TRADITIONAL

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Chinese herbal medicine induced acute renal failure
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995
Arsenic and mercury intoxication due to Indian ethnic remedies.
BMJ, 1993

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