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Pharmadrugs combined with chinese herbs spells disaster

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Dear WDDTY:

Re your recent experience with the Chinese herbal combination Happy Wanderer, I wonder if you have seen the story about the 70 women in Brussels who took a Chinese herbal combination for slimming. All have damaged kidneys, four have had transplants and 24 are on kidney dialysis waiting for the transplant operation. (The lethal concoction, devised by a Belgian doctor, mixed western pharmaceuticals with Chinese herbs and gave the herbs undiluted as powders.) The combination with pharma drugs is always a recipe for disaster. Potentially, these herbs can wreck our good natural body vitamin mineral levels, too. Christina McFarlane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.....

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