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New Entry Birthwort Plant’s Dark Side: Contaminated Grain Linked To Kidney Disease And Cancer In Balkan Countries

By admin2 | March 24, 2008

MedicalSeeds from birthwort (Aristolochia clematis), a plant which grows in wheat fields in the Balkan region and which has been used throughout Europe and Asia as an herbal remedy for 2000 years, is contaminating the wheat grain, leading to a devastating kidney disease affecting rural residents in that region, a study led by Dr. Arthur Grollman of Stony Brook University and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (July 17) suggests. [click link for full article]
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