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People can buy over the counter medicines in drug store or pharmacy easily. Some of the medicines which be used for cold or flu contain stimulants. The stimulants such as caffeine and methylephedrine were banned by the International Olympic Committee. If athletes take these medicines, they may violate the rule of the International Olympic Committee. The purposes of this thesis were to investigate the over the counter medicine containing doping stimulants in Taiwan area as well as establish these data to a databank and a website. The results showed that there were 17 stimulants over the counter, including bambuterol, caffeine, ephedrine, etilefrine, formoterol, methoxyphenamine, methylphenidate, methylephedrine, nikethamide, phenylephrine, phenylpropanolamine, pseudoephedrine,salbutamol, salmeterol, selegiline, strychnine and terbutaline. The detail information of all of these medicines will be discussed in this thesis and can be searched from the website of http://192.83.181.227/doping. This result can provide more information to athletes and avoid them misuse careless.
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