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Article: Heavy metals in Ayurvedic preparations.(Ayurvedic Science Updates)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
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- May 1, 2005
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An interesting piece of news appeared on 17th December 2004, in the English daily Hindustan Times titled "Some Ayurvedic Drugs Toxic--USA study finds high level of Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic" and reported by S.Raj Gopalan from Washington. This piece of news referred to the study conducted by the Harvard Medical School on Indian Ayurvedic Medicine published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Dr. Robert B. Saper, Dr. Stefanos N. Kales and five others. According to the paper, the Harvard team bought Ayurvedic medicines from about 30 South Asian stores in the Boston area and found that these formulations had "potentially harmful levels of lead, ...
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