A mortar and pestle, used in making natural medicines

Alternative Medicines

Vitamin U

Vitamin U

As with vitamin T, not much is known about vitamin U either. It is found in raw cabbage, has no known toxicity, and may be helpful in healing ulcers of the skin and intestinal tract. This nutrient is probably allantoin, which has tissue-healing...

Arsenic

Arsenic

Despite arsenic's reputation as a poison, it actually has fairly low toxicity in comparison with some other metals, although with chronic exposure there is some concern about arsenic's effect on chromosomes and its carcinogenicity.

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