With their wide-spread and easy availability, it is not surprising that hundreds of adverse drug reactions and several deaths have been attributed to ephedra. [14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24 ...

Often, it’s a drug like ephedra, which was all the rage in the ’90s and 2000s. Ephedra did help people lose weight, but it was eventually pulled from the shelves because of its links to heart ...

In 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of ephedra-containing products in the United States due to these risks. An ECA stack contains the following: While its herbal source ...

Drug enforcers said the use of ephedrine extracted cheaply from wild-growing ephedra plant in Afghanistan has almost supplanted pseudoephedrine, a relatively pricey decongestant found in cold ...