Professional Products Containing Ephedra/Ma Huang

[Guest guest]

Taken from the Honso enewletter.

 

The announcement of the FDA ban on Ma Huang (ephedra) has surprised

all of us. This is such an effective tool for Chinese medicine

practitioners in treating respiratory related diseases that they

simply cannot afford to lose it. Fortunately, the FDA announcement

has included a statement that excluded the Chinese medicine

practitioners from the ruling. The statement reads like this: " the

rule does not pertain to traditional Chinese herbal remedies. It

generally doesn't apply to products like herbal teas that are

regulated as conventional foods " . Although the details of this

regulation are still unclear, some manufacturers will list products

that contain Ma Huang.

 

Is this correct? Does is change across states? Any comments?

 

Attilio

[Guest guest]

Attilio,

 

Michael McGuffin says the final ruling of the FDA is not in yet. He is assuming that the FDA register will reflect something akin to California law as written by Senator Jackie Spier. If that's the case, then what's written below will be true. Generally the FDA and federal lawmakers follow case law and established state legislation to write their federal register. Let's hope they fully plagiarize CA state law.

 

Emmanuel Segmen

 

 

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Chinese Medicine

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:22 AM

Professional Products Containing Ephedra/Ma Huang

Taken from the Honso enewletter.The announcement of the FDA ban on Ma Huang (ephedra) has surprised all of us. This is such an effective tool for Chinese medicine practitioners in treating respiratory related diseases that they simply cannot afford to lose it. Fortunately, the FDA announcement has included a statement that excluded the Chinese medicine practitioners from the ruling. The statement reads like this: "the rule does not pertain to traditional Chinese herbal remedies. It generally doesn't apply to products like herbal teas that are regulated as conventional foods". Although the details of this regulation are still unclear, some manufacturers will list products that contain Ma Huang. Is this correct? Does is change across states? Any comments?AttilioMembership requires that you do not post any commerical, swear, religious, spam messages,flame another member or swear. To change your email settings, i.e. individually, daily digest or none, visit the groups’ homepage: Chinese Medicine/ click ‘edit my membership' on the right hand side and adjust accordingly. To send an email to<Chinese Medicine- > from the email account you joined with. You will be removed automatically but will still recieve messages for a few days.

 

 

[Guest guest]

Attilio,

 

As someone on the CHA list pointed out on a recent post, the rule

does not really exclude tcm practitioners. It excludes tcm herbal

remedies or herbal teas.

 

I've just came across a post by Michael Pressman from ABC news, on

the google alternative site newsgroup. I've posted it below.

 

 

MPressman (michael.pressman)

Ephedra Ban - ABC News

 

Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative

2004-01-06 18:53:39 PST

 

 

Ephedra Users

 

Upset about the ban?

 

What's next? Are you stockpiling? Trying to get it elsewhere?

 

ABC News-20/20 is working on a report about Ephedra and what people

are doing about the impending ban. We would like to hear from you.

 

Please email Michael Pressman, producer, at

 

michael.pressman

 

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I've reformated the email so that does not truncate it:

 

michael.pressman AT abc.com

 

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/index.html

 

You could also go to ABC's website on their 20/20 page and halfway

down the page there's a link that says: • 20/20 Wants to Talk to You

Our producers want your help on upcoming 20/20 stories. Take a look

at some of the stories we're working on, and let us know if you'd

like to share your story. Follow that link and you'll end up on the

page where they have form to fill out should you (anyone here) want

to talk with them about the Ephedra ban.

 

I encourage all of you to follow this story on 20/20. It could make a

difference.

 

Regards,

 

Fernando

 

 

 

 

Chinese Medicine , " Attilio

DAlberto " <attiliodalberto> wrote:

Fortunately, the FDA announcement

> has included a statement that excluded the Chinese medicine

> practitioners from the ruling. The statement reads like this: " the

> rule does not pertain to traditional Chinese herbal remedies. It

> generally doesn't apply to products like herbal teas that are

> regulated as conventional foods " .

> Is this correct? Does is change across states? Any comments?

>

> Attilio