Chinese slimming capsules

Taking herbal food supplements is certainly not free of risk. Since 2005, the poison emergency centres in the German cities of Freiburg and Goettingen have registered a total of 17 patients with health problems after taking Chinese slimming capsules. The pharmacologist Dieter Mueller and his coauthors describe the documented cases of poisoning in the current edition of Deutsches Aerzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106 (13): 218-22)...

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