Ma Huang Or Ephedra Weight Loss Products
| Ephedra has been used in China for generations for the purpose of weight loss, energy supplements, and bodybuilding. |
It has many names like Ma Huang, Mahuang, Ma Huang root, Mahuanggen, or herbal estasy. When Ephedra is combined with caffeine, it will stimulate body’s metabolism and suppress appetite. However, the effects are short live.
Ephedra is an amphetamine-like compound. It raises blood pressure and heart rate. It will cause blood vessels to constrict. As a result, people are taking Ephedra have high risk of stroke, seizure, heart attack, and seizure, and sudden death.
Ephedra is generally marketed as a dietary supplement. In general, it is the responsibilities of manufacture to ensure the safety of dietary supplement. For awhile, some manufacture try to conceal the risks and the ingredients of Ephedra. They try to mislead consumers, and they try to say that it is all natural. In reality, the products with Ephedra commonly contain synthetic chemicals. In fact, most of the energy and dietary supplements potentially contain Ephedra.
FDA announce the ban of Ephedra in 2003. It announces that all consumers should stop taking all Ephedra dietary supplements.
The drug manufacture has legal responsibility to make the drug as safe as possible. If they fail to provide adequate warnings about the nature of the drugs, , they will be responsible for pharmaceutical liability case.
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