Days after the US government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to ban phenylpropanolamine, an ingredient used in dozens of cold products, US pharmacies searched for natural alternatives to replace the common cold. problematic drugs.
At the same time, a product called Airborne, made entirely of natural ingredients, began to be distributed across the country. For Victoria Knight-McDowell, a second-year elementary school teacher in California who pioneered the formula to stay healthy in her classroom, the FDA’s advice couldn’t have come at a better time. Already its Airborne has become a star product in California, where it has been distributed to over 6,000 stores in less than two years and has gained much of its popularity through word of mouth.
To add to the fashion effect of which Californians have the secret, part of the Hollywood community, with Kevin Costner, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in the foreground, has become the ardent propagator.
Airborne blends herbal extracts, amino acids, antioxidants and electrolytes in an orange flavored effervescent tablet. The accompanying ad claims that it gets rid of most colds in less than an hour if you take it at the first sign of a cold … or get your money back.
Each tablet contains 5,000 IU of vitamin A as acetate (100% DQR *), 1,000 mg of vitamin C (1.633% DQR *), 30 IU of vitamin E (100% DQR), 40 mg of magnesium sulfate ( 10% DQR *), 8 mg of zinc sulfate (55% DQR *), 15mcg of selenium, as sodium selenite (21% DQR *), 3 mg of manganese gluconate (86% DQR *), 75mg potassium bicarbonate (2.5% DQR *), 350 mg extracts of western and Chinese medicinal plants (honeysuckle, forsythia, Schizonepeta tenuifolia (Jing jie), ginger, Chinese Vitex (Man jing zi), isatis root and echinacea), and 50 mg of amino acids (glutamine and lysine).
It is not yet known if the product will have an international career, but it seems to have a bright future in the United States in the near term.
HealthPassport.net
* DQR = recommended daily dose
According to BW Healthwire, November, 8, 2000