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A Chinese "doctor" has pleaded guilty to selling a civil servant
dangerous herbal pills which gave her cancer and destroyed her
kidneys after years of use.
Patricia Booth went to Ying "Susan" Booth for a natural medicine
to get rid of some spots, and was sold tiny brown "Xie Gan Wan"
tablets.
The 58-year-old civil servant returned to the shop in Chemsford,
Essex for more than five years as she took the tablets three times
a day.
At the Old Bailey in London, a judge said there was no evidence
Wu, 48, knew the pills could be dangerous as there is no regulation
on selling traditional Chinese medicines.
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