[MPWG] Fw: Black cohosh: Missing from some medicinal products labelled as such (fwd)

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Jul 17 12:03:20 CDT 2006


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Science News (13May2006, p.293) reports that many "black cohosh" products
(4 of 11 in a lab study) contained Chinese sheng ma rather than the
promised American black cohosh.  Link to article follows:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060513/fob5ref.asp

Larry

Larry Morse
Washington, D.C.
larry.morse.dc at earthlink.net
(larry.e.morse at LEM-Natural-Diversity.com)




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