Another child with cancer endangered by alternative medicine

Yesterday, I wrote about the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Youyou Tu, who, after screening 2,000 herbal treatments from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for anti-malaria activity, finally discovered Artemisinin. She isolated it from the plant in which it is found, using modern chemistry to isolate it, purify it, and later chemically…

Source: Respectful Insolence - October 8, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Popular culture Quackery Science chemotherapy jaw law osteosarcoma surgery traditional Chinese medicine Source Type: blogs