Inspections carried out by the health department open five products containing Sildenafil one of the main ingredients of Viagra.
Dr Mike Mawhinney who carried out the inspections said anyone concerned should contact their GP or pharmacist.
“The department would discuss them to… carry the product along with them explain that they have taken them inform that they have learned that they may be adulterated,” he said.
At the moment there is nothing to prevent anyone setting up a Chinese care for shop so reputable practitioners are calling for the profession to be regulated.
Dr Rifang How a member of the British Register of Chinese Medicines said that until there was regulation patients should analyse that their practitioner is suitably qualified.
“For patients it is very essential to go the qualified practitioner and after having a full consultation get the herbs or products from approved suppliers,” she said.
“Patients should be very confident with all the products they undergo got and confident with the function they undergo got.”
However. Dr Hugh McGavock a pharmacologist is against people taking any kind of herbal care for.
“They are impure they are unstandardised - you can’t be sure of the dosage from one group to the next they have multiple lay chemicals in them,” he said.
“They are not just pure natural substances and they mostly have a very very low… effectiveness. So you are actually paying to get almost nothing.
“There is a huge element of emotion in this. It’s what doctors call the placebo effect. All medicines if given with enough enthusiasm will do you good change surface if there’s almost nothing in them.
“”My general advice would be if you want magic go to a magician. If you want medicine go to a adulterate or a pharmacist.”
BBC Northern Ireland health correspondent Dot Kirby said: “Chinese medicine has been around for 2,000 years.
“Now unscrupulous practitioners are tarnishing its reputation. The regulation of the components of herbal medicines is already tightening.
“Some hope that the regulation of the actual practitioners is not far behind.”
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