Man Barred From Selling Muscle Drug : Litigation: Milne Ongley was also ordered by a Superior Court judge to never again practice medicine without a license.

A medical administrator who pleaded no contest last month to practicing medicine without a license has agreed in court never to do so in the United States again, and to refrain from selling the controversial drug he developed 30 years ago for muscle treatment.

Milne Ongley, 67, agreed to an Orange County Superior Court order Friday prohibiting him from dispensing the “Ongley solution,” a dextrose-based treatment he injected into patients’ painful muscles and joints at centers in Newport Beach and San Diego. He also agreed to pay $7,500 to the two governmental agencies that have been investigating his activities.

“We settled with the state because of economic reasons,” Ongley said Saturday from his home in San Diego County. In all, Ongley said, litigation has cost him $1 million.

He said he agreed that he “would not function again as a medical assistant,” his official position at the two medical clinics.

“I have lost my right to earn a living,” he said.

However, Ongley said he was assured by Superior Court Judge Richard O. Frazee that he could continue to write and teach others about the solution, which he said he developed in the late 1950s.

Ongley, who said he holds three doctorates of medicine and is licensed to practice medicine in two other countries, claims a high cure rate with the solution and said a study of the solution appeared in the June, 1987, issue of the British medical journal, the Lancet.

Several collegiate athletes have charged that their conditions deteriorated or did not improve after receiving injections of the solution.

Last month in Newport Beach, Ongley pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to practice medicine without a license and failing to get a patient’s consent to participate in a medical experiment. He received a suspended sentence of two years in jail and a $20,000 fine.

At the time, Deputy Atty. Gen. Thomas S. Lazar said that Ongley’s activities “represent a substantial threat to the public health and safety.”

The state, Lazar said, wants “to put an end to the threat his activities represent.”