Oddly EnoughKyrgyz health minister promotes herbal COVID-19 cure; expert says it's poisonous
Reuters
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Kyrgyzstan will use a herbal tonic to treat COVID-19, its health minister said on Friday after his president praised the remedy - despite warnings from a medical expert that it contained a potentially lethal poison.
Minister Alymkadyr Beishenaliyev drank a solution made from the roots of aconitum soongaricum at an online briefing to show that it was safe.
"Those with mild symptoms recover within a day, those with more acute form (of the illness) take it three to four days," he said.
President Sadyr Japarov had personally provided doctors with a recipe passed on to him by his father, and they were already using it, Beishenaliyev said.