Re: Ephedra for asthma

 I used to use ephedra for my asthma, but can't find it anymore except in diet pills, which have too many extra ingredients, and in 8 mg tablets with 200 mg guafenesin. I tried those, but they don't work, and I can't take 3 of them to get close to the 25 mg I need, because 600 mg of guafenesin is too much. The 25 mg tablets online are outrageously expensive, like $80 a bottle. Does anyone know if there is a natural product that I can use that does not have all these extra ingredients?

Ephedra (ma huang) was banned by the FDA in the US years ago after falsely attributing many deaths to the herb when in fact all but one death was due to synthetic pharmaceutical ephedrine HCl.  The one death from the herb ephedra was due to an overdose when the person took 8 times the recommended dose.  The FDA also used other excuses to ban ephedra including blaming a death that had absolutely nothing to do with the herb or the drug and claiming ephedra caused other adverse effects including pregnancy (reported during Congressional testimony).  They also tried to clam that ephedra was used to manufacture methamphetamine, which is a total fabrication as well I addressed in this post;

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1870295#i

Anyway, using ephedra on a regular basis will actually make the underlying problem of the asthma worse as this will crash the adrenals.  Yes, the Chinese have been using ephedra for thousands of years, but they knew to use it very intermittently and to support the adrenals in the process with herbs such as licorice root.

Anyway, there is an alternative to ephedra called coleus forskohlii that will counter the leukotrienes and histamine associated with asthma by blocking cyclic adenosine monophosphate phosphodiesterase (cAMPPDE), without raising the pulse and blood pressure or crashing the adrenals as with ephedra:

http://mountainmistbotanicals.com/info/Asthma.htm

To actually get rid on the asthma requires rebuilding the adrenals.  Here is additional information on that:

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1527351#i