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Study Asks if Tainted Chinese Herbs Are Harming, Not Healing 绿色和平示警中草药“药中之药” BEIJING — Chinese herbal medicine, an ancient tradition that is supposed to heal, may be doing the opposite: is it also harming people’s health and polluting the environment with pesticides, as a Greenpeace study released Monday suggests? 北京——作为古老传统的中药材本应治病救人，结果却可能适得其反：它是否如绿色和平组织(Greenpeace)周一（6月24日——编注）发布的报告指出的那样，在用农药损害人体健康并污染环境呢？ The study, “Chinese Herbs: Elixir of Health or Pesticide Cocktail?” tested 65 popular Chinese herbs from nine pharmacies in nine Chinese cities and found 48 tested positive for pesticide re