Herbal Viagra – The real scoop behind their alleged safety

If you are popping herbal Viagra pills and other herbal alternatives, you might have a stroke or may be subject to other adverse health risks. The risk is looming over all men who take these herbal impotence pills but especially on 5.5 million American men who take nitrates and other men on heart and blood pressure medicines.

Mark B. Mycyk, a Chicago emergency room doctor who also supervises Northwestern University’s clinical toxicology research program stated that the number of patients taking alternative medications is increasing by the day and the number of incidents reported at emergency rooms and poison control hot lines are also increasing at an alarming rate.

Director of Oregon-based Flora Research Laboratories, James Neal-Kababick, stated that 90 percent of the samples he examined contained forms of patented pharmaceuticals that the herbal alternatives were claimed to replace. He also found that some of these pills contained two times the dose than that in prescription drugs.

These herbal impotence pills cause many incidents. One involved a 30-year-old man who experienced violent headache and priapism (an erection that does not go away) while another incident reported in a retirement community north of Los Angeles involved an elderly man who took a free sample that put him in the hospital for four days. A man in Michigan also blamed an herbal impotence drug as he suffered from a stroke just 20 minutes after taking a purportedly ‘extremely safe’ drug.

Dr. Linda Silvers, who leads an FDA team that targets fraudulent health products sold online, stated: “The Internet poses many enforcement challenges. A Website can look sophisticated and legitimate, but actually be an illegal operation.” The FDA faces problems of tight budgets, weak regulations, and other priorities, which limits their ability to keep a watch over all the products as they are heavily promoted via spam mails and unreliable websites.

These incidents suggest that it is very important to seek genuine sources that sell branded and authentic prescription drugs. These medications undergo years of testing before they are made publicly available as opposed to herbal alternatives that are not regulated.