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Beware of those folk medicines!



Houston: Maria didn`t mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite.

Worried about her daughters` lack of appetite, the young Houston mother was merely following her grandmother`s advice when she gave the two girls and a niece a dose of “greta” _ a Mexican folk medicine used to treat children`s stomach ailments.

What Maria did not know then, but now will never forget, is that the bright orange powder is nearly 90 per cent lead.

Text and Images: AP

Image:Herbal remedies line the shelves at a yerberia, a store selling herbal remedies, in Houston.

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