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Who would have thought it? An investigation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into popular herbal medicines has found that as well as having no proven medicinal benefit, 30 per cent of the products have no herbal content, either. The New York Times reports that tests on certain brands of remedies such as Cinkgo biloba and St John's Wort found that the pills contained rice flour, asparagus, dried radish, wheat, beans, peas and carrots - but no detectable levels of the herbs listed on the label.