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> Calm & Cool contains valerian root (yes, and herbal) that
> has as its active ingredient L-tryptophan, which is
> forbidden not only in endurance competition but also USAE
> competition (whose drug rules are somewhat laxer than the
> AERC's drug rule).
>
> Yes, it can test positive.
Before the handy-dandy days of injections and pills, pharmacology was a
rather inexact matter of taking plants known to have pharmacological
effects and trying to dose them in such a way that the patient got enough
to work but not so much as to be harmful.  The medicine men and women of
primitive cultures looked at a field of plants just about like a modern
druggist looks at his shelf.  The concept that just because the plant is
growing out there "naturally" it is not a drug, is pretty naive.

Thanks for the one pharmacological detail on C&C, kat.  If such remedies
did not contain pharmacologically active plants (herbs, if you will), they
wouldn't have the desired effects.

Heidi



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