And we also have to keep in mind that this is second hand information.  There is a lot of the story being left out.  Like was she even being compliant with taking the herbs?  Was he there to confirm this?  Was the reaction actually to the herbs, or something else, such as her medications?  Insulin comes from animal sources, which makes it foreign, and a potential allergen.  If she is diabetic she could have reacted to insulin if she was on it.  Herbs are often blamed for reactions to pre-existing conditions or to pharmaceutical drugs.  A great example is with chaparral.  The FDA blamed chaparral for 13 cases of hepatitis.  These were isolated cases within a two year period.  There were no cases ever reported prior despite hundreds of years of use, and no cases since despite chaparral remaining on the market.  So how can this be?  Well the FDA left out the facts that many of the patients had pre-existing liver failure.  And the others were taking pharmaceutical drugs well known for causing liver failure.  They did the same thing with ephedra to get it off the market.  All but one of the deaths were from PHARMACEUTICAL ephedrine HCl, not the herb ephedra.  The one confirmed death was an overdose.  The guy took 8 times the recommended dose.  Yet when the FDA banned ephedra they gave an exemption for the extremely dangerous and concentrated pharmaceutical ephedrine HCl.  Just more proof that the FDA is only out to protect the drug companies.  If you really want to get a laugh go to the FDA's website and look up the Congressional testimony  they used to get the ban on the herb ephedra.  One of the cases they cite was the death of a man who had not even taken any ephedra in over two weeks.  Just imagine if we applied this same principle to all pharmaceutical drugs.  This would make pharmaceutical drugs the number one cause of deaths in the U.S.!!!

So again, where is the evidence that her reaction, whatever it was, occured from the herbs and not one of her medications or an allergic reaction to something in her diet?