2010年8月12日星期四

Beware of toxic herbs in winter tonic

Recently, Yunnan, Food Safety Commission issued an early warning notice to alert the public to prevent food poisoning in autumn and winter, especially medicated tonic. Experts advise, Diet tonic can not ignore the "Food and Medical Use," the toxic ingredients.

Traditional Chinese Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University, director of laughing gulls first pointed out that a lot of folk wisdom of medicated formula, but does not recommend the public to buy as many ingredients as possible to the formula of not just food, or medicine. Presence of some toxic substances, unauthorized consumption is likely to lead poisoning.

In fact, the Ministry of Health had previously announced 87 edible materials, including the peel, dates, yam, etc., this type of material is more safe; a category is under the guidance of doctors, can be used for health food additives. Common with Chinese angelica, Schisandra, pearl powder, propolis, etc.; there is a material are prohibited from adding herbs, such as the octagonal lotus, daughter son, hexagonal lotus and so on, these herbs in Chinese Medicine as "toxic substances", should the inadvertently added , will certainly cause injury. In addition, there are a lot of Chinese food with taboos, such as pig's blood bogey to yellow, Polygonum multiflorum; carp avoid cinnabar; radish bogey to yellow, Polygonum multiflorum; dog meat, almonds and other bogey.

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