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Posted on 10/17/2008 1:27:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A ginseng injection contaminated by bacteria caused the deaths of three people using the medicine to treat thrombosis and heart disease, state media reported Tuesday.
Tests on samples of an herbal injection showed the product had been "tainted by bacteria," the State Food and Drug Administration and Ministry of Health said in a joint statement issued Tuesday, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at ap.google.com ...
Batting a 1000 tonight.
Was this tainted ginsing in our Country or China?
Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) is NOT ginseng. It is found in Siberia and northern China. It is a shrub that can grow approx 12’ tall while the true ginseng's are a low herbaceous perennial dying back to the ground every fall. It emerges in the spring. American ginseng (Panax quinquefoilum) and Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng) are true ginseng. “Siberian ginseng” does exhibit some medicinal properties, but is not a true ginseng. It is far less expensive than the true ginseng and for this reason is promoted and sold to unknowing consumers as “ginseng”.
Buyer beware of anything from China! Imported ginseng from Communist China is most likely cultivated and fertilized with human feces along with many U.S. outlawed chemical pesticides, fungicides and herbicides, etc.
Buy American wild if you can afford it.
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