EPHEDRA

Subject of a 2004 F.D.A. dietary supplement ban

• Banned dietary supplement

• Banned medicine used to treat asthma

• Dangerous diet pill ingredient

• Desert plant

• F.D.A.-banned supplement

• F.D.A.-banned weight-loss supplement

• FDA-banned herbal supplement

• Ingredient in a controversial diet supplement

• Nearly leafless desert plant

• Recently banned weight-loss substance

• Subject of an FDA dietary-supplement ban

• Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds