Shoaib sought help from local medicine man......who inadvertently provided him with anabolic steroids
Well - How ridiculous is this news item at Dawn.com!
Cricket-Shoaib's herbal medicine could be to blame, doctor says LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar, sent home from the Champions Trophy after failing a drugs test, could have taken nandrolone inadvertently while being treated with herbal medicine, his doctor said. "After undergoing surgery in Australia earlier and subsequent treatment for the stress fracture, Shoaib has been seeing a hakim in Pakistan. It is a possibility that nandrolone drug was mixed in herbal medicines that he has been taking. "He has been tested during the ICC events and 2003 World Cup but he has never tested positive," doctor Tauseef Razzaq said. On Tuesday, Shoaib met PCB director of operations Saleem Altaf but both men declined to give details of their meeting. "I met Shoaib this morning and we had a detailed discussion. Asif is due to meet me later in the afternoon. Everything is under control," Altaf told the Press Trust of India. Altaf said the board was in the process of organising a tribunal to hear both players and recommend disciplinary action. "It should be finalised later today because we want to have the hearing as soon as possible," he said.
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herbal medicine is the most ancient form of medical practice together with chanting and other forms of rituals.
at present herbal medicine has grown in popularity in urban cities for. many people are turning to alternative medicine to relieve minor illness and sometimes used herbs to cure serious diseases such as cancer.
herbs are the primary ingredient for the modern drugs which undergoes series of refinements to make it more safe to humans.
herbal medicine very effective yet without any side effects as compared to synthetic drugs.
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