Comments on: Chinese Herbal Medicine Gave Woman Cancer

By: Tania

Tania — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:42:27 +0000

Thank you ‘Corporal’ for finally having some fact-based comment regarding this matter -There was a court case a few years ago after my mother had to have her kidneys removed after taking some chinese herbal pills to help cure her psoriasis – she also had her urethras (unsure if that is how it is spelt) removed to prevent her getting cancer of the bladder. The case was lost as the chinese practitioner claimed ignorance, even though any pills containing aristolochia had been banned 2 years previously (it was brought to court by the Medicines Control Agency – not my mother) yet still they are getting away with it – unbelievable!

By: Corporal

Corporal — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:22:21 +0000

aristolochic acid is one of the more toxic and carcinogenic substances known to science. Remember the incident in Belgium in 1990s when over 100 women got kidney failure when they took sliimming product that contained aristolochia

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:18:50 +0000

“They did indeed clear up her skin..” – a rather redundant and inappropriate observation under the circumstances, surely!

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:10:37 +0000

Chemotherapy destroys immune system, radiation therapy causes cancer, … so where should we look for something that works?

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:51:18 +0000

Since when does ginger root, boiled cockroach and grounded rhino penis give you cancer?

Sure it doesn’t cure spots but it doesn’t cause cancer either. I think it’s a ridiculous case first of all the woman went to see the chinese alternative medicine store herself.

By: Waq

Waq — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:35:44 +0000

I’m not some kind of hippy alterna-medicine advocate in the slightest but ‘Western’ or REAL medicines sometimes cause cancers too.

The line about the pills clearing up the spots is just stupid too. Most teenagers get sports in their mid/late teens until their late teens/early twenties. The average period they last is less than 5 years. It\’s terrible that they\’re taking credit for the spots going away. It\’s like saying, sorry we gave you cancer and kidney failure but… your spots did go away!

By: Max Sang

Max Sang — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:34:58 +0000

“there’s not that many cases that developed cancer”? You are out of your (demonstrably tiny) mind. Graduate of the Dan Quayle spelling bee competition too, I note.

By: roz

roz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:22:51 +0000

yeah, really…the chinese must be the most advanced medical society in the world if they can pinpoint the cause of any particular cancer with such accuracy. :/ was it pat robertson who said timothy leary’s prostate cancer was caused by all the drugs he took? gee, i never knew pat was chinese!

kidney failure i can believe–nobody ever seems to consider that when they’re ingesting some kinda new substance; but it’s not unusual.

By: Nopke

Nopke — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:06:43 +0000

Hm, from what I read there’s not that many cases that developed cancer after taking them but the FDA will not want to take any risk, and therefor banned them till further research has been done.
Regulat medicine cause so many problems in patients on the side as well .. but will be taken care of by other medicine.
High doses of anything might be good for one thing as usual but might trigger some other things as well (the body after all is a huge network, one change here will lead to several changes in the whole system).

Parts of the potatoe plant and many other plants can not be eaten by many animals .. nor by us.

It is powerfull energy … plants ..

Too much meat, too much of this .. too much of that … all not good if taken over a long period.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:26:56 +0000

Better send this one to the Daily mail… the would love to add this to their 100+ list of things that give you cancer