ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES AND THE LIVER

The Alternative Medicine Connection has a database of alternative health-care practitioners that you can search by State. Their URL is: http://arxc.com/arxchome.htm

Want to know if a particular herb or dietary supplement is hepatoxic? Take a look at: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/aems.html

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