In 1992, Joe Y.C. Ho, a Canadian of Chinese decent, came to know one of the many versions of Rene Caisse s tea. Ho also observed the benefits of the herbal drink on other degenerative conditions especially when it was used with another Yucca product. Ho decided to bring the incredible herbal drinks to Asia where a lot of people were also suffering from cancer and various kinds of degenerative diseases. In November 1992, the products were introduced in Hong Kong and Taiwan. There were many favorable responses to the remedy including many miraculous cases.
China has a very stringent system to control imported goods.
Even food items have to go through the appropriate application for import permit. The import permit application was submitted to the Ministry of Health of China in early 1993 and was immediately turned down. The main reason was because that several herbs in the products were not indigenous in China and they were not in the Chinese Official Herbal Directory. The rest is history. This was the first time import permits were issued by the Chinese Government to non-traditional Chinese medicines to be imported in China for a major disease.