FDA Showing an Interest in Woman's Cap

Ithaca, NY-   The FDA has shown an interest in Woman's Cap. Acupuncturists and Chinese herbologists Jin Fang and John Shang have been clinically using Woman's Cap for menopausal patients with very good results since June of 2003.

Menopausal symptoms are: foggy thinking, hot flashes, insomnia, weakness and fatigue, hip or joint pain, dry or wrinkly skin, nervousness, vertigo, headache, heart palpitations, and a lack of sexual desire. Women are in peri menopausal, menopausal, or post menopausal and are age 40-60 years old; they take two pills before a meal in the morning and two pills before a meal at night for 3-4 months.  The effective rate of Woman's Cap is above 90% so far.  

Jin Fang and John Shang work with two scientists: Dr. Li, who was a post doctorate in natural medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center and now works at a Pharmaceutical Company; and Dr. Liu, who graduated from Chicago Medical School with a PhD and Pharma D in pharmaceutics and now works at a Pharmaceutical Company.

Jin Fang and John Shang extended the application of Woman's Cap to include the following conditions:

• infertility: 4 of the 6 patients who have conceived in 2004 have used Woman's Cap in conjunction with Jin Fang's special herbal formulas, Baby Boom I and Baby Boom II;
• fibromyalgia: patients using Women's Cap in conjunction with acupuncture treatment have seen very positive results;
• depression: women who are 40-60 years old have combined Woman's Cap with Jin Fang's special herbal formula Happy Mood to maximize their ability to think and to do things clearly;
• male problems: add one single Chinese herb to Woman's Cap to get a happy result.  Currently, the research team in China is investigating this use of Woman's Cap to develop Men's Cap.

The FDA will review all the scientific researching data from China and the international evaluation forms from the current clinical practice in the USA, and will conduct more extensive lab tests in the USA, before hopefully undertaking a larger scale clinical trial.

Jin Fang and John Shang and their entire team thank the people of Ithaca for their firm support.  Ithaca is an incubator with great people and is where Woman's Cap was first tested.  The Ithaca Journal on October 27, 2003, was the first newspaper in the nation to report on the Woman's Cap study.  Without all the support of the people of Ithaca, Woman's Cap would not have reached this important FDA milestone.  The team asks for the continuing support of people currently using Woman's Cap to fill out their clinical evaluation forms. Jin Fang & John Shang will collect these forms and forward them to the FDA as needed.

The team promises to continue working hard to let the American people know more about the power of Chinese medicine.  Their goal is to take more Chinese herbal medicine to the FDA for review in the future.  

I come from three generations of medical practice. My parents both are pharmacists in Western medicine. My heart and soul are in medicine and my patients. Most of my family and relatives are in the medical field. They are very open to both medicines. They are especially much excited about the biotech medicine research like Woman's Cap.

My products have come a very long way. More than 14 years ago, I started to formulate Happy Mood, Baby Boom I and II for this community. Many of my patients still remember they are cooking and drinking herbs. In later years they became capsules wrapped in a plastic bag. About three years ago, the tablets finally made it. They are being manufactured at a California herbal manufacturing company. Today, all my bottles are made in California. They are all natural and quality controlled. They meet GMP standard & WTO rules. The tablets formula's also meet FDA standard for heavy metals, bacteria and pesticide residues. From inside the pill to outside the label, they are all FDA inspected.

All of these herbs are available either online or at our office pharmacy. Unlike other pharmacies, I am also the clinician who developed the formulas! This makes our pharmacy the first of its kind, online or off.

I am very fortunate that I have had many great scientists and doctors to work with. Dr. Jing-rong Li, who was a post doctorate in natural medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center and now works at Roche Pharmaceutical Company, helped me design the FDA compliant labels. Dr. Daniel Liu, who graduated from Chicago Medical School with a PhD and Pharma D in pharmaceutics, now works at Schering Plough Pharmaceutical Company, designed the international evaluation form for the clinical trial for Woman's Cap. Dr. Zhangping Peng, my husband's brother-in-law, who obtained his MD and PhD in cardiology in China and is now a post doctorate at North Carolina Medical School, assisted in information research. Dr. Xiaohang Yang, my bother-in-law, a PhD in bio engineering from Dartmouth and a post doctorate at MIT who is now one of the heads at Singapore National University Biotech Institute, helped me with product terminology. I am also grateful for the great support from my family--my husband, John Shang, who was a chief orthopedic surgeon in China, and my daughter, Rebecca. Without their advice and help, these herbal formulas would not be on the market. Today, these formulas go all over the country: AZ, CA, FL, IL, NH, MA, MI, MD, NC, NY, OH, PA, SC, SD, TX, and even Johannesburg, South Africa. Many people throughout the world whom I've never met order them.

Some people have questions about the minerals content in the soil in which the herbs are grown. That is an excellent question. I have to tell you that I don't know the content of the soil in China, but the one thing I do know is that when they come to the USA they all are inspected by the FDA and follow WTO rules. I eat rice, fruit and vegetables everyday. I enjoy eating them because of their color, taste, smell and freshness; I never think about the mineral content of the soil.

We want people to LOOK GOOD and FEEL GOOD!