TQ: drugs help digest kids have carcinogenic

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Simotang Koufuye Hansen's products Pharmaceutical Co Ltd

According to the dailies Simotang Koufuye, Shanghai is the type of solution to drink for children in the age of file away and the elderly to aid digestion. As part of this drug contains the dry areca nuts, a component has been the World Health Organization (WHO) listed as carcinogenic substances since 2003.

On drugs manufactured by pharmaceutical company Hansen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, based in Hunan province. In the manual, this company did not mention its drug ingredients that can cause cancer.

Many pharmaceutical stores in Changchun City, Northeast Jilin province has removed the product from the booth. Meanwhile a few pharmacies in Shanghai of today still sold. An employee of a pharmaceutical trading company Huashi Pharmacy said "type of immiscibility this drink selling well".

According to the manufacturer's website, Simotang Koufuye contains 4 herbs including areca nut, but do not mention the risk of cancer. The instruction just says that pregnant women or patients gastrointestinal surgery should not drink.

According to the newspaper, the study found those who regularly chewing areca nuts dry at high risk for oral cancer.

From Thursday, the stocks of Hunan Hansen has halted the transaction. Meanwhile the company myself assert message is still out their products are "very safe".

"The formula of the drugs from the time of the Ming dynasty and has been used for hundreds of years. To date no cases of cancer would have to involve Simotang Koufuye are informed, "the company on.

However, the International Agency for research on cancer (ADMINISTERED) WHO's in the message on his Web site on 7/8/2003 confirmed: "areca nut, a popular ingredient in the process of preparing betel, areca dishes is the cause of the oral mucosal fibrosis (a precancerous condition that can evolve into cancer malignant mouth) , led to the conclusion that Areca Nut itself is carcinogenic to humans ".

According to the investigation of the ADMINISTERED, oral cancer often appear more in those areas people have the habit of eating betel palms. Some 390,000 cases of oral cancer and most are estimated annually in the world, up to 228,000 cases (58%) were recorded in southern and southeastern Asia.

In some areas in India, oral cancer is the most common cancer types. The evidence was found in Taiwan and China, where the number of oral cancer cases in men have increased 3 times since the early 1980s. This phenomenon occurs at the same time with the increasing betel chewing areca habits since the early 1970s, mainly in men.=