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Misleading: US health agency did not find Chinese herbal medicine 连花清瘟 effective in COVID-19 treatment

25 August 202017 February 2021 Wallace Fan 范雋暉 COVID-19, Eric Domingo, Food and Drug Administration, Ko Chi-Sum, Lianhuaqingwen, National Health Commission, Phytomedicine, PubMed Central, U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information, Zhong Nanshan 2 min read

The study in question was actually conducted by researchers in China and published in a journal by a Dutch company.

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