- Composition
- The Secret Ingredient
- Original or Fake?
- Instructions for Use
- Additional Recommendations
Chinese Wild Butterfly promotes losing 5-7 kg per week without harm to health. Is it possible to reduce weight so fast with the usual diet and without increasing physical activity? Let’s see what ingredients are in its composition that supposedly promote active fat burning.
Composition
The text on the capsule packaging in broken Russian says that it contains extracts of plants such as madder, Job’s tears, passionflower, marsh cinquefoil, and so on. However, the fact that there is no complete list of ingredients on the drug’s packaging already raises questions not only for its effectiveness but also its safety.
Online stores that offer to buy Chinese Wild Butterfly give information about several other capsule components. These are lotus leaves, Chinese coffee beans, plantain seed husks, and oriental sisygbekiya. How do these plants affect the human body?
- Madder – in medicine, it is used for kidney disease therapy.
- Job’s tears (adlay, coix, bead tree) – relieves swelling, fever, and inflammation.
- Passionflower (maypop) – some types of maypop are used as a laxative, and others for liver diseases.
- Marsh cinquefoil (sedge, marshlocks) – there is no data on the use of this plant in medicine; not all of its varieties are suitable for consumption.
- Lotus leaves – in oriental medicine, it is used to relieve swelling and inflammation as a general tonic.
- Chinese coffee beans (cassia bean) – stimulate digestion and promote bowel cleansing.
- Plantain seed husks – are a source of fiber and cause a feeling of fullness.
- Oriental sisygbekiya – in oriental medicine, it is used to combat tumors and sometimes as an antipyretic agent.
Capsules with such a composition can rather help get rid of edema and have a positive effect on digestion, but no more.
Secret Ingredient
The Wild Butterfly dietary supplement is in demand thanks to an extensive advertising campaign, as well as the popularity of many other Chinese products for weight loss.
Athletes also buy such pills for “drying” when they need to quickly lose extra pounds while maintaining muscle mass. And it was completely by accident that doping control showed that people taking Wild Butterfly have sibutramine – a prohibited substance – in their bodies.
It is sibutramine in the drug that promotes fat breakdown and reduces appetite, so the capsules often do work. This substance is banned due to the numerous side effects that people who lose weight with it face.
Side effects of sibutramine:
- migraine, dizziness, fainting;
- nervousness, irritability;
- depression;
- memory impairment;
- dry mouth, taste perversion;
- coughing, rhinitis;
- nausea, vomiting;
- gastritis;
- hemorrhoids;
- constipation;
- anorexia;
- increased blood pressure;
- tachycardia;
- skin rashes;
- genitourinary infections.
And this is not even a complete list of adverse reactions that were recorded during controlled studies. Various manias, psychoses, and suicidal tendencies were also noted.
Despite the fact that this substance is officially banned for inclusion in medicines, this prohibition does not apply to dietary supplements. Well, some manufacturers simply do not consider it necessary to indicate sibutramine among the components of their product.
Original or Fake?
Until 2012, the original Chinese slimming drug Meizitang could be bought in pharmacies. Since 2013, these capsules have not been produced – it was in 2013 that sibutramine was recognized worldwide as a prohibited doping agent. But in the same or very similar packaging, online stores offer the Wild Butterfly product. One can only guess about the origin of such a product.
Instructions for Use
According to the information on the packaging, Meizitang capsules should be taken 1 time per day – before or after breakfast. Different Internet resources publish their interpretations of the instructions on their pages. Some sources indicate that the capsules must be taken half an hour before breakfast, others – only after breakfast, and still, others allow the product to be taken during a meal. Some sources write that the indicated dosage should not be exceeded, while others allow taking two capsules per day instead of one.
If the instructions for the drug do not indicate how to take it – before or after meals – then it can be taken regardless of food intake – the effectiveness will not change from this. In cases where the effect of the substance on the body changes depending on food intake, recommendations on this matter must be specified in the instructions. For example, drugs that irritate the gastric mucosa are taken after a meal, and medications that gastric juice will prevent from being absorbed and taking effect in the body should be taken before meals. The lack of uniform information on taking Meizitang indicates that the authors of the instructions on the sites simply do not know the exact composition of the drug.
Additional Recommendations
It is in the best interests of online stores that sell Chinese dietary supplements that their product is bought. If the capsules are ineffective, the Internet will soon be replete with negative customer reviews. Therefore, distributors have figured out a simple trick. Among the recommendations for using the drug are giving up alcohol, increasing the proportion of fresh fruits in the diet, and reducing the consumption of sweet and fatty foods.
It is easy to guess that under such conditions, it is quite possible to lose a few pounds – and without additional pills. Following all the seller’s recommendations, a person drinks pills and loses weight, and then leaves a positive review.
Remember that before taking any weight loss product, a medical examination is necessary. Only a specialist will tell you which weight loss products will be effective and safe specifically in your case.