She Took a Supplement for Constipation. She Ended Up in the Cardiac ICU.
When a 24-year-old woman took a dietary supplement called “raiz de tejocote,” she encountered some dangerous and unpleasant side effects. On arrival to the emergency department, she was experiencing confusion, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, whole-body numbness, pain in her abdomen, and generalized malaise. She had taken four tejocote root pills 14 hours earlier to help trigger…
