Herbal aphrodisiac banned

ABU DHABI — The health authority in Abu Dhabi, has banned, with immediate effect the sale of the herbal drug ‘Tongkat Ali’, and asked the public to be careful when buying medical and medicinal products, specially herbal ones.

Ziad Al Suksuk, director of the health regulation sector at the authority, urged the public to seek information about the medicines prescribed to them.“Laboratory analysis showed that the drug, illegally sold as a herbal medicine for increasing sexual ability, contained a banned substance,” said Dr Mohammed Abu Al Khair, director of medicinal and medical products department at the authority.