Deaths and the darker side of modern Chinese medicine
Hundreds of injections based on traditional recipes are sold in China, some without stringent trials
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Early on a snowy, winter morning in January 2012, Wu Xiaoliang, a 37-year-old farmer, stopped by his local doctor to remedy a headache. At a small clinic near his village he received two injections made from traditional Chinese herbs. Hours later, villagers saw him struggling to prop himself up on his moped as he drove home.
By noon, he was dead.
What killed Mr Wu was later described in an autopsy report as a "drug allergy." But doctors couldn't pinpoint what he was allergic to because the shots he was given contained dozens, if not hundreds, of different compounds extracted from two herbs.
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