Fah Thalai Fone traditional medicine may be required to put up warning in its label



BANGKOK: -- The Food and Drug Administration is to issue an announcement requiring manufacturers of Fah Thalai Jone traditional medicine to put up a warning in its label.

FDA deputy secretary-general Paisal Dunkum said Tuesday that studies by the World Health Organisation and other research works show that the use of Fah Thalai Jone could result to undesirable serious side effects called Anaphylactic shock.

He said that the number of serious cases of Anaphylactic shock were small, including a few cases in Thailand.

For that matter, he said that a subcommittee charged with keeping watch on dangers from the use of drugs for humans found it necessary to take precautionary measure by requiring manufacturers of Fah Thalai Jone to put up a warning in the drug’s label.

Pregnant women, women who breast-feed their babies, people with a history of suffering allergy from the use of the drug are warned not to use the drug. The drug should not be used for seven running days or after three days the drug has proven to be useless, it should be stopped and the patient should consult doctors.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/150253


-- Thai PBS 2016-02-10

I just went through a whole bottle with no issues

I've consumed what in Thailand is called Fah Thalia Fone (Andrographis paniculata.) for many years, plus I grow it, extract it and sell thousands of bottles of the extract every year to consumers, and to medical doctors, naturopathic doctors, and an array of other medicine practitioners. I've never had a problem nor have we ever received a complaint from the tens-of-thousands of bottles we've sold.

The Chinese call it "the king of bitters" and indeed it is very bitter. It's especially effective for fighting bacterail and virus infections and is especially good for colds and flu. The herb has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries. If Andrographis were a problem herb, these centuries of medical use would have noted so many many times, and warnings would have been noted in the hundreds of TCM texts that have been written on herbal medicine.

Edited February 10, 201610 yr by HerbalEd