An Iraqi woman buys traditional herbal medicines at a shop in Baghdad, Iraq. — Reuters
WHEN a pharmacist in Iraq told Umm Mohammed her prescription for a skin ailment would cost about 800,000 dinars (US$611), she turned to cheaper natural remedies as some of her relatives had done.
In a herbal remedy shop, the 34-year-old mother-of-two found a treatment eight times cheaper.
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