A new report, discredits the effectiveness of Chinese herbs against SARS.

SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, before it was brought under control infected 8,098 people worldwide and killed 774, according to the World Health Organization.

"Chinese herbs combined with Western medicines made no difference in decreasing morbidity [illness] versus Western medicines alone," says Dr. Xuemei Liu of the West China Hospital in Sichuan wrote in the report, published by The Cochrane Library and featured by Reuters.