'Magical' cures can kill you, warns health chief

By KAWINTRA JAISEU 
THE NATION

 

 

SEEMINGLY effective medicine sets marketed under the “Ya Mor Thahan” (Medicines by Medics) banner can be dangerous and perhaps even lethal.
 

 

Authorities are warning people about the dangers of the sets, often dubbed “magical cures for various diseases”, from gout, to paralysis and inflammed joints. 

 

“Their benefits are exaggerated and they include steroids, controlled medicines that in fact must be prescribed by doctors only,” Khon Kaen’s public health chief Dr Somchaichote Piyawatchwela said yesterday. 

 

 

Prolonged misuse of steroids is harmful to health and in severe cases, can be lethal. 

 

Somchaichote spoke up after receiving an alarming report about a patient who recently went to Si Chomphu Hospital in Khon Kaen’s Si Chomphu district in a terrible state.

 

She had a swollen face and a bump on her neck after taking Ya Mor Thahan sets every two days for more than a year. 

 

Each of these unauthorised Ya Mor Thahan sets costs Bt20 and, says Somchaichote, contains smuggled pills and steroids. 

 

Some even include sleeping pills and Piroxicam, an anti-inflammatory drug often used to treat arthritis.

 

 

“Estimates suggest more than 200 million such pills have already been smuggled into Thailand and sold under the Ya Mor Thahan banner,” he said. 

 

The products are therefore quite widespread but are most common in border provinces. 

 

Late last year, an official found a large quantity of such pills stuffed into bags and abandoned in a vehicle at a checkpoint in Nong Khai province. 

 

Nobody in the vehicle admitted to owning the bags. Analysis later revealed the pills were steroids and painkillers. 

 

 

 “Ya Mor Thahan is used as a banner because the name convinces buyers that medicines are very effective. Medics usually need to prescribe such medicines that give immediate benefit to injured soldiers,” Somchaichote said. 

 

He said his office had already alerted the Food and Drug Administration about Ya Mor Thahan.

 

“We will launch crackdowns on unauthorised medicines,” he said. 

 

Somchaichote added that if any manufacturer of traditional Thai medicines used steroids as one of its ingredient, it would be liable to both a jail term and a fine. 

 

FDA deputy secretary general Dr Surachoke Tangwiwat has urged people to buy medicines from licensed chemists only. 

 

“Beware of medicines with seemingly too good benefits,” he said. “They are prone to contain steroid, which has many undesirable side effects.” 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30357702

 

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"...Magical' cures can kill you, warns health chief..."

 

"...SEEMINGLY effective medicine sets marketed under the “Ya Mor Thahan” (Medicines by Medics) banner can be dangerous and perhaps even lethal..."

 

It is vitally important that these medicines be used in conjunction with your magical amulet. Failure to heed these instructions may result in the user being haunted by an evil spirit or worse.

 

 

(sarcasm alert)

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said his office had already alerted the Food and Drug Administration about Ya Mor Thahan.

“We will launch crackdowns on unauthorised medicines,” he said

The last photo showing (a price?) 150, has a "registered number" 617/25/61. Is this trying to suggest it is approved by some official body?

I wonder what is the longer number to the left of 150 trying to imply as well? Seems to me to be trying to deceive already.

I knew this crazy heavyly bodybuilt fellow at the gym...a real Schwarzie...who used to inject the same hormone and growth enhancers that are given to fatten animals in many EU countries, mainly on the eastern part....and he had a regular pass to the local mental health asylum as through the years he was going bonkers....

48 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

The last photo showing (a price?) 150, has a "registered number" 617/25/61. Is this trying to suggest it is approved by some official body?

I wonder what is the longer number to the left of 150 trying to imply as well? Seems to me to be trying to deceive already.

the first number is the date "617/2561" .. with 2561 corresponding to 2018. The number at the bottom is likely a batch number ... but agree this is probably done to make it appear more legitimate.

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

“Ya Mor Thahan” (Medicines by Medics)

Hey, if it's good for the generals, it must be good for the peasants.

I'll stick to my Dobbies and Ya Dong.

Good medicine.

“Their benefits are exaggerated and they include steroids, controlled medicines that in fact must be prescribed by doctors only,”

 

I've got some bad news for you Somchaichote

Thailand is an adman's dream; an uneducated, gullible population who still believe in ghosts; magic; amulets.  Check out the number of trees wearing dresses!

2 hours ago, observer90210 said:

I knew this crazy heavyly bodybuilt fellow at the gym...a real Schwarzie...who used to inject the same hormone and growth enhancers that are given to fatten animals in many EU countries, mainly on the eastern part....and he had a regular pass to the local mental health asylum as through the years he was going bonkers....

Did they get a good price for him when he went for slaughter?

2 hours ago, lupin said:

the first number is the date "617/2561" .. with 2561 corresponding to 2018. The number at the bottom is likely a batch number ... but agree this is probably done to make it appear more legitimate. 

I agree with you about the date, but it does actually say 'registered number' in Thai, not date.

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by bluesofa

Legalize medical marijuana and most people suffering from diseases that cause chronic pain will dump these 'dicey' meds. 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

'Magical' cures can kill you, warns health chief

As he rearranged his lucky magical amulets around his neck to stop him from choking

...beware of confusion when instructions are only in Chinese...

For instance Viagra has to be swallowed and not to be sniffed

But lucky amulets ,belief in afterlife and other "approved " mumbo jumbo crap is fine, the world of insanity, not  limited to Thailand only mind

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

Thailand is an adman's dream; an uneducated, gullible population who still believe in ghosts; magic; amulets.  Check out the number of trees wearing dresses!

They must be "appropriately dressed" at  all times, covering their leg.

4 hours ago, lupin said:

the first number is the date "617/2561" .. with 2561 corresponding to 2018. The number at the bottom is likely a batch number ... but agree this is probably done to make it appear more legitimate.

 

Except that thais would write the date 176, not with the month first. 

Third world people have much less choices of cure,

lucky us living in wealthy countries.   

Not to worry, every village has a few heroes to demonstrate that these pills could even be taken wit the local wine or beer.

Every day we have a new tablet or potion that is going to change our world for us. If you are a believer well and good if you die at least you gave it a try.

Anything Big Pharma produces is loaded with Toxins which just alleviates one condition and moves it to the Liver.....then more pills for those problems...CBD is on its way...

Yes1 all this crap stuff is really over priced cocky <deleted> with extra added toxins, guaranteed to empty your pocket or make one BBQ material.

Just now, BORRISGOODENUF said:

Yes1 all this crap stuff is really over priced cocky <deleted> with extra added toxins, guaranteed to empty your pocket or make one BBQ material.

Actually, really Cocky turds!

 

If you fall for something, you can fall for anything.

Even if you go to a pharmacist on the high street or hospital can you actually be sure what you're getting is what has been prescribed...
If it comes direct from the manufacturer then maybe ok, but I don't trust anything that comes in a bottle over the internet!

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Late last year, an official found a large quantity of such pills stuffed into bags and abandoned in a vehicle at a checkpoint in Nong Khai province. 

 

Nobody in the vehicle admitted to owning the bags. 

" Pills ?? .. Ohh those pills " ..

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by Justgrazing
Sp

6 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Did they get a good price for him when he went for slaughter?

Hard to swallow !

17 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

"...Magical' cures can kill you, warns health chief..."

 

"...SEEMINGLY effective medicine sets marketed under the “Ya Mor Thahan” (Medicines by Medics) banner can be dangerous and perhaps even lethal..."

 

It is vitally important that these medicines be used in conjunction with your magical amulet. Failure to heed these instructions may result in the user being haunted by an evil spirit or worse.

 

 

(sarcasm alert)

 

.... or worse.  "Two, or more, evil spirits"   (Warning: Smarty pants alert.)

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by The Deerhunter

On 11/2/2018 at 8:22 AM, CALSinCM said:

Legalize medical marijuana and most people suffering from diseases that cause chronic pain will dump these 'dicey' meds. 

Why , it's just another magical cure, it wont cure your arthritis.