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Aristolochia toxicity: heads-up reminder

onafixedincome
12 years ago

Yahoo just ran a story about an herbal remedy containing artistolochic acid (from A. clematis, I believe) which has been linked to kidney and urinary tract cancers. The description of the action of the acid is fascinating, and to no small extent, scary...

So I thought I'd post it as a heads-up reminder that if you aren't a Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar, it is definitely NOT a salad green of choice. :)

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/171/5/449.full

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12110620

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