Traditional medicine kill annually 200,000

A story by Reuters that got remarkable little traction. Over the weekend, at a conference on the safety of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangdong, professor Jin Shiming disclosed that 200,000 Chinese die annually because of improper use of the stuff that should heal you.

Mainland Chinese rely more on traditional Chinese medicines than on Western drugs and they tend to use them carelessly because of a widespread misconception that traditional medicines are not toxic or have no side effects.
"People should be told that they can't consume drugs any way they want. There is no drug that has no side effects, they must not take drugs like they eat rice," said Professor Jin Shiming, a committee member of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technological Association.