Consider this before taking herbal medicine, doctors warn cancer patients

Doctors have raised concern over the uptake of herbal medicine that interrupts the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. [iStockphoto]

When 10-year-old Duncan woke up with itchiness and acute pain in his right eye in June last year, his grandmother, Rose Auma, crushed some herbs and put the mixture in his eye, hoping the symptoms would go away.

Instead, the eye bulged and the boy lost his vision in that eye.