[Red Badger]

But this is kidneys, not Liver or gall bladder.................

[Calvin Locke]

Saw a story recently about a guy in the Deep South that had kidney trouble, maybe to the point of destroying both, from drinking too much iced (black) tea, and eating lots of spinach.

Both black tea and spinach are high in oxalates, and he destroyed his kidneys as if he were drinking ethylene glycol (anti-freeze) which metabolizes into oxalic acid, and crystallizes in the kidneys.

I'll take a stab and postulate that the China man was drinking lots of black tea, too.