otb01 said:I'm pretty sure they still have ephedra (ma huang) in chinatowns
Yeah, but they're not idiots: they saw what happened to those veterinary places selling strong tincture. I've tried to get Ma Huang in chinese herb stores and got nowhere.
Perhaps, if you have contacts, some Asian friends who speak the lingo. But even then I wouldn't count on it. I wouldn't order anything like that mail order, either. Agricultural products suffer a fair degree of scrutiny for other reasons.