Chinese Meds Distrusted By The Chinese

because of this problem Chinese people would not trust Chinese medications

The problem of fake erectile dysfunction medication in China is growing to such an extent that the Chinese people themselves are extremely suspicious of medication made in their own country and are increasingly requesting medication made in America or Europe. Pharmacists in China tended to be stocked with hundreds of different remedies in different brightly colored boxes and bottles for practically every single illness under the sun and many of them are nothing more than snake-oil remedies.

The problem stems from the fact that the medical market in China is very poorly regulated which means that hundreds of firms who are better at marketing and promoting medicines then manufacturing it have sprung up. The competition is ruthless with the manufacturers making more and more outrageous claims about the benefits of their individual products. Recently the footballer David Beckham found his image plastered all over an impotence product which gave the impression that he was endorsing it. Other celebrities have also been associated with various medical products in China unbeknown to them.

Mr Huang Jianshi from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College explained that because of this problem Chinese people would not trust Chinese medications. He also said that the foreign drug companies like Pfizer tended to work directly with doctors and hospitals rather then with of the local pharmacies and therefore were more trusted by the Chinese people.

The problem however was accentuated because many of the western drugs were considerably more expensive than locally made products and therefore were out of the financial reach of many Chinese people who were therefore forced to try their luck with the Chinese medicines. The Chinese authorities said that they were trying to stop the problem but it was not easy as their population was so big.  The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration dealt with almost 330,000 instances of illegal distribution of medication in 2007 and issued over $100 million in fines but because the market is so lucrative and so big manufacturers are still pushing ahead.

At Ukmedix News our advice is simple; only use tried and tested medication which subjected to scrutiny from national health authorities such as the European Medicines Agency and the Food & Drug Administration in America.