Because they are not drugs, herbals and other dietary supplements cannot claim to cure, prevent, treat, or diagnose this.
What is disease?
100
This first law affecting pharmaceuticals was passed in 1906 and really only dealt with labeling regulations
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
100
The acronym for Good Manufacturing Processes
What is GMP?
100
This little plant might help control cholesterol problems, but it definitely keeps vampires away.
What is garlic?
100
Another name for an allergic response (such as a rash) to an herbal
What is hypersensitivity?
200
This agency does not evaluate herbs or supplements for safety or effectiveness in same manner as prescription medications
Who is the FDA?
200
The Pure Food and Drug Act tirggered the creation of this government agency.
What is the FDA?
200
The DSHEA states that a botanical or herbal must be “prepared, packed, or held” under this standard
What is GMP or Good Manuafcturing Practice?
200
Echinacea might help this malady to end sooner.
What is the common cold?
200
This FDA guideline, which kicked in in 2008, should help with the problem of misleading content or concentrations of herbals.
What is GMP?
300
This publication sets the standards for drug identity, strength, quality, purity, packaging, and labeling.
What is USP or USP-NF?
300
Before it was called the Food and Drug Administration, it was called the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration, and before that it was called this.
What is the Bureau of Chemistry?
300
This law required that herbs:
Be labeled as dietary supplement
Identify all ingredients by name
List quantity of each ingredient
Identify plant and plant part from which ingredient is derived
What is the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994?
300
Said to be antihepatotoxic, or, it can help if you ingest a funky mushroom
What is Milk Thistle?
300
This safety issue would be addressed better if an independent not-for-profit organization with the requisite testing experience and facilities could verify purity. Unfortunately this is usually discovered after consumers have been exposed.
What is contamination with toxic material?
400
The earliest "drugs" were made from these.
What are plants?
400
Federal FDCA of 1938 distinguished between prescription and these drugs, which led to the prescription-only method of drug acquisition common today.
What is Over The Counter?
400
Science of selecting and preparing plant materials for medical use
What is pharmacognosy?
400
Black Cohosh can help ladies who are suffering with hot flashes and other symptoms of this.
What is menopause?
400
Since herbals are absorbed across the GI tract, metabolized by the liver, and excreted by the kidneys, there is concern about how they do this with other drugs.
What is Herbal-Drug Interaction?
500
These compounds are not essential to basic plant cell survival, but some have evolved to:
Conserve moisture
Ward off herbaceous animals
Fight fungal, bacterial, and viral infections
What is a secondary metabolite?
500
The 1937 “Elixir of sulfanilamide” tragedy killed more than 100 patients, promting the creation of this law which finally required manufacturers to prove drug’s effectiveness and safety
What is the FDCA or Food Drug and Cosmetic Act?
500
Manufacturers can only market them with health claims and may not make any claims as to their use in treating disease
What are herbal or supplements?
500
Old men, who have trouble with their prostate swelling up, might get help from this herb.