Buying Ephedra
If you try buying ephedra in the United States, you might have a problem finding it. Ephedra was banned from the United States in 2006 because there were too many reports of health problems caused by ephedra, some of them severe and even some deaths. Ephedra caused many side effects and there were many reports of strokes, heart attacks and even deaths so the Food and Drug Administration felt compelled to get ephedra banned in the United States. The numbers of people injured were just too large to ignore. The side effects reported were strokes, heart attacks, insomnia, nausea, vomiting, anxiety, high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, irregular heart beat, nervousness, tremors, allergies, itching, hives, psychosis, seizures, and more.
Ephedra was found in many products and was used for weight loss, asthma, common colds, sinus congestion, congestion of the bronchial tubes and lungs, as an energy booster, a sports performance booster and other medicinal purposes. Ephedra has been used for over 5,000 years by the Chinese. Ephedra is one of the oldest medicines on record. It has also been used by the Native Americans, Mexicans, and Mormons for many years. Ephedra is found in different deserts around the world and it is known by several different names. Other names for ephedra are Squaws Tea, Desert Tea, Mormons Tea, Herbal Ecstasy, Chinese Ephedra, Ma Huang, and Epitonin.
Ephedra has been banned in the United States two times. The first time was in 2003 after the FDA had received over 800 reports of serious health issues such as strokes and heart attacks and even death had been reported from 1994 until 2003. Some people did not thing ephedra was dangerous to use so they filed a petition with the courts to get the ban on ephedra lifted. The court ruled in favor of the public and lifted the ban on ephedra in 2005. They did not feel that the FDA had showed enough evidence that ephedra was dangerous if taken in small amounts of less than 10 mg. After the ban was lifted the FDA continued getting reports of people suffering from strokes and heart attacks even when taking only 8 mg of ephedra. From 1997 until 2006 there were over 1,000 reports of hospital emergencies and at least 17 deaths from the use of ephedra. The FDA had some of the products that contained ephedra to see how much ephedra was in them. Some of the products had more ephedra per dose than was stated on the labels and some had less than what was on the labels. There was some that contained no ephedra at all. The FDA filed their findings and reports back to court and ephedra was again banned from the United States for the second time in late 2006.
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