Just fooling around, looking on google and came across, "holistic" type nasal decongestant. http://www.springvalleyherbs.com/catalog.php?itemID=1231

Says the active ingrediant is 60mg's of Pseudo HCI (chinese ephedra) and it has some other crap in it like vitamin C, willow bark, blah, blah. I'm wondering if this stuff is a capsule full of a bunch of ground up ma hung and herbal crap, etc. Can pseudo be extracted straight from the dry plant material like with a solvent wash or do you have to distil it, etc.?

Thanks

hi slim

no you can pull the active ingredient you want with any of the alcohols..

the prob being

even good ephreda only has a 3 to 5 percent eph ratio

but if it says 60mgs of pseudo per pill,,

have a go

me again! doing some rsch and have a bottle of ephedra (ephedra sinica 375mg per capsule. put out by Nutraceutical corp. only other ingredients are geletin capsule and magnesuim stearate. cam these be cleaned the same way - alcohol extraction? swim has a whole bottle to play w/.