I had a friend that was asking about that. I know nothing about it.
Is it a stimulate?
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I had a friend that was asking about that. I know nothing about it.
Is it a stimulate?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonum_multiflorumQuote:
Originally Posted by BoulderDawg
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/hsw_alert.htm
You can OD on anything. The question is whether it is the fault of the patient or the prescriber.
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College graduate dies of liver failure after 'overdose on traditional Chinese medicine' in a bid to treat his hair loss for job search
Cui Fei, 27, was given 'he shou wu' herb by his doctors to help hair growth
He hoped the medicine could help him improve image and find a better job
The masters graduate soon suffered from liver failure and died last month
His family claimed overdose of the remedy was the cause of his death
By TRACY YOU FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:25 EST, 27 January 2016 | UPDATED: 13:37 EST, 27 January 2016
A Chinese college graduate has died after he allegedly consumed over 6.5 lbs of he shou wu, a traditional Chinese medicine, in a bid to treat his hair loss ahead of hunting for a job.
The man, named Cui Fei, died of liver cancer on December 31, 2015, at the 302 Military Hospital in Beijing, according to a report on People's Daily Online.
His parents claimed that Fei, aged 27, had been seeing TCM doctors before he tragically died in a bid to find a better job by treating his hair loss.
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Tragic: A 27-year-old Chinese man has died of liver failure after he allegedly overdosed on a Chinese herb
According to his father Cui Guohua, Fei was a masters student at the College of Life Science and Technology in Central South University of Forestry and Technology and graduated last summer.
In order to increase his chance of finding a better job, Fei, who suffered from hair loss, visited the Jing'an Hospital of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Hebei city on January 31 last year.
The doctors prescribed eight courses of treatment for Fei containing he shou wu, or Chinese knotweed, a type of herbal used in traditional Chinese medicine to help hair growth.
His father Guohua said Fei had showed signs of illness and always found food tasteless while taking the medicine.
Fei realised his hair-loss issue still existed in May, so he decided to go to another hospital for further treatment.
The second hospital, which remained unnamed, prescribed a similar TCM tonic to Fei also containing he shou wu.
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Keen graduate: The college graduate (pictured before his death) wanted to treat his hair loss for job search
Fei found out he suffered from liver damage during a physical checkup on August 26. On September 1, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University diagnosed that the illness had been caused by consumption of medicine.
On November 13, Fei's illness suddenly worsened and he was taken to the 302 Military Hospital in Beijing.
Subsequent medical treatment was not able to resuscitate Fei and he died at around 4am on December 31, 2015.
Fei's parents, who are farmers and have borrowed nearly one million Yuan (£100,000) to try and save Fei, were devastated by the tragic news.
According to Fei's cousin Zhang Hongyun, Fei had taken over 6.5 lbs of he shou wu during his four-month treatment and suspected Fei's death was caused by the overdose on the herbal medicine.
However, a spokesman from Jing'an Hospital of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine told a reporter from Anhui News that the hospital was not responsible for Fei's death.
The spokesman, with the surname of Hu, said: 'Firstly, the diagnosis - hair loss - was correct. The doctors gave a normal prescription. Secondly, the prescription did not exceed the limit on the dose of he shou wu for clinical use.'
Hu also insisted that Fei had not returned to the hospital for follow-up checkups as he had been instructed to do.
According to Hu, the hospital and Fei's parents have reached an agreement to settle the case through their local doctor-patient mediation committee.
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Cause of death? His family claimed that doctors had given him too much he shou wu (pictured), a traditional Chinese medicine used to help hair growth
He shou wu is one of the most popular traditional Chinese medicines in the country.
However, it's understood that the herbal medicine may have side effects, including damage to liver functions.
China Food and Drug Administration released a statement in 2014 in an effort to regulate the usage of he shou wu.
The statement limited the usage of raw he shou wu to 0.05 ounces and processed he shou wu to 0.1 ounces.
It also warned people who have disorder in liver function and whose family have a history of liver disease against using the medicine.
Cui Fei's cousin Zhang said neither hospital had tested Fei's liver functions before prescribing he shou wu to him.
Basic common sense is needed in all circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoulderDawg
Go and see a TCM herbal practitioner. Self diagnosis, taking more than the required dosage, mixing with other drugs and herbal preparations is a cause for disaster.
Mis-identification of the plant species, whether one or all is not good and that also adds to what was reported. Be safe.
Xie wasn't a 'TCM practitioner'. He was just hoping to run a scam.
That's a lot of scratch for a sweet potato. :oQuote:
Chinese man’s giant human-shaped vegetable turns out to be a man-made fake
Massive 12kg tuber found on a building site was thought to be a valuable root used in traditional medicine, but it was actually just a sweet potato
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 07 February, 2018, 3:10pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 07 February, 2018, 3:10pm
Yujing Liu
https://cdn1.i-scmp.com/sites/defaul...?itok=9yM8AH16
A Chinese man who discovered a huge human-shaped root vegetable, which some people thought might be a rare plant used in herbal medicine, described his find as a “treasure”, even though it turned out to be worthless.
The man, identified only by his surname Xie, said he was amazed when he stumbled on the 80cm (2.6 feet) long tuber, which weighed in at a whopping 12kg (26.5 pounds), while he was working at a construction site in the southern city of Shenzhen, Chongqing News Channel reported on Monday.
“I was so surprised. I had never seen anything like it before,” he said. “I think it’s a treasure.”
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Xie’s friends and neighbours convinced him he had found a giant he shou wu root, which might have been worth a fortune. Photo: Cq.qq.com
When Xie was preparing to head home to Chongqing for the Lunar New Year holiday, he packed up the giant vegetable with the rest of things.
It was only when he got back to the southwestern megacity and chatted to his friends and neighbours that he began to think his find might be something special.
The consensus was that it was the root of a Polygonum multiflorum plant, known as he shou wu in China and tuber fleeceflower in North America.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the plant, which grows in the mountains of central and southern China, is regarded for its rejuvenating properties, with the roots used for everything from promoting fertility to restoring hair colour.
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Keen to find out more, Xie got in touch with his local television station and an investigation was launched.
Members of the public interviewed on the Daily 360 show on Monday were in no doubt as to what he had unearthed.
“It’s 100 per cent a he shou wu herb – look at its leaves,” said a man who claimed to be a farmer.
A woman was more poetic in her description of the giant root.
“It could have become an elf, but you dug it up before it had chance to run away,” she said.
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One woman suggested the giant root might have grown up to be an elf. Photo: Cq.qq.com
Despite their collective certainty, a local scientist contacted by the television station had bad news for Xie and his optimistic entourage.
“It’s a sweet potato,” said Yang Min, director of pharmaceutical preparations at Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
“When you see a root with such a regular shape, it has almost certainly been moulded into shape.”
The giveaway was the discrepancy in the proportions of the root and leaves, he said.
“This can’t be he shou wu, because they grow very slowly. The leaves are disproportionately thin compared with the root, which [to get to such a size] would have taken several decades to grow.”
Although Xie’s vegetable did not cost him anything, Yang said there had been cases of people growing sweet potatoes in moulds and then selling them on to unsuspecting buyers.
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A scientist said the anthropomorphic root was a sweet potato that had probably been moulded into shape. Photo: Cq.qq.com
In 2016, a man in central China’s Hubei province paid 8,000 yuan (US$1,270) for a human-shaped he shou wu root, which also turned out to be a sweet potato.
While there is no evidence to support the belief that human-shaped plants are any more efficacious than their regular counterparts, in 2015, auction firm Artron Auction put an estimate of HK$200,000 (US$25,600) to HK$400,000 on an anthropomorphic root weighing just 297 grams (10.5 ounces).
Despite coming so close to a possible fortune, Xie was phlegmatic about his new “friend”.
“It probably took a long time to grow this big,” he said. “It looks like a human, and it’s wild.”
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