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Ms. Toad

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6. This is not traditional medicine -

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #4)

Mon Nov 18, 2013, 10:31 PM

Nov 2013

Traditional medicine, which is treating my daughter's liver disorder, use synthetically produced ursodeoxycholic acid.

The insistence on the use of real bear bile - rather than the synthetically produced version - comes from non-Western (e.g. Chinese traditional) medicine

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