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The truth of the accident-some patients died from side effects of Xiao Chai Hu Tang
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DOI   10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2002.01.32
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Yukiharu Awashima Japan Shunkoen Chinese Medicine Research Group 546~0024 
Abstract
    In Japan,with the simplification of decoction,pharmaceutics of Chinese herbs has been in the age of "pharmaceutics of granule estract".The report that Xiao Chai Hu Tang was effective for intractable chronic hepatitis was responded widely.This prescription has been widely used by doctors of Western Medicine.But they gave it to patients with chronic hepatitis,ignoring the theory of diagnosis and treatment based on differentiation of symptoms and signs.The accident that some patients died from side effects of Xiao Chai Hu Tang was reported in the national newspaper on January 2000.Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine and clinical experts all over the world were shocked.In this article,I will present the truth.And I hope that it can be a clue of future article,and research.

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