Go online, call up your favorite search engine and do a casual search for HCG Kits. Online, you are liable to find over two million websites that are willing, eager and even anxious to sell you a kit complete with a full supply of HCG and needle syringes.

Even if the FDA approved HCG for weight loss (it doesn’t,  but this is not a reason for concern. Read on in order to learn why the HCG diet is perfectly safe and effective), there is no way that an individual can legally possess needle syringes in the U.S. without having a prescription from a licensed physician.

Why Injectable HCG is Not a Good Idea

You’ll probably notice that most of the HCG kits you see offered on the World Wide Web are from retailers in foreign countries such as Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia or Brazil. These are countries in which the pharmaceutical industry is not well-regulated (and this is probably why the government-run health care agencies in these countries import drugs from the U.S. and the E.U.). Regulation for the homeopathic industry is virtually non-existent.

What this means is that you have no assurance that what you receive (assuming you receive anything at all) isn’t expired or tainted or even if it’s genuine HCG at all.

There is then the issue of the needle syringes. There is a reason that needles are tightly regulated in the U.S., and it has everything to do with the nation’s draconian drug policies. Because these policies presume guilt until innocence is proven, if you are caught possessing needle syringes without a prescription, you could find yourself in more trouble than you bargained for.

If on the other hand you do go to the trouble and expense of getting a prescription for injectable HCG and the required syringes, you’ll have to go to the trouble of mixing the substance in a sterile container, measuring it into the syringe and sticking yourself three times a day.

Would you really want to do that if a less painful, more convenient and less expensive alternative was available?

There is an Alternative to Injections

HCG drops are economical and easy to purchase and even easier to use. The solution is already mixed for you. All you need to do is place .4 milliliters (about 14 drops) under your tongue and hold them there for a few minutes before every meal. (The reason you don’t simply swallow is because homeopathic remedies like HCG drops are easily destroyed in the stomach before they can be absorbed into the bloodstream.)

In addition, most HCG drops are manufactured in the U.S. Not only will you not have the expense of having them shipped from outside the country and the risk of having the package seized by Customs, you have the peace of mind knowing that you are getting a quality product from a licensed laboratory that must operate according to FDA rules and regulation. Furthermore, the product must also meet HPUS (Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States) standards.