Herbal Products Flashcards
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)
Provided Guidelines for Marketing and Labeling (but Not testing or quality assurance) of Dietary Supplements, such as herbal preparations.
**Label Cannot make Specific Therapeutic or Health Claims
**Can Describe Role in Affecting “Structure or Function in Humans”
**Labels must state that product has *Not been Evaluated by FDA
**Labels must state that is Not Intended “to Diagnose, Treat, Cure, or Prevent Any Disease.”
Problems in Evaluation and Use of Herbal Products:
1) Lack of Well-designed, Well-controlled, Blinded studies of safety and effectiveness.
- -*Natural does not mean Safe.
- -Lack of Long-term Studies in children, elderly, chronic disease
- -Lack of Reproductive studies in pregnant and nursing women
2) Identification of Active Constituents
3) Quality Control
Cranberry
*UTI;
Antioxidant
Saw Palmetto
*BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia)
Soy
*Menopausal Symptoms
Garlic
*Lowers Blood Lipids
Ginseng
Tonic, “sexual performance enhancer”
St. John’s Wort
*Depression
**Induces Cyt P450!!
(deactivation of oral contraceptives and HIV anti-retrovirals)
Echinacea
Immune stimulant
Ginkgo
- Circulatory Stimulant (reduces Coagulation)
* Dementia
Milk Thistle
*Reduces Liver Damage
Ginger
*Anti-Emetic
reduces Motion Sickness
Feverfew
*Migraine Prophylaxis
Black Cohosh
*PMS, *Menstrual Symptoms
Contains some Hepatotoxins though! (hepatotoxicity!)
*UTI;
Antioxidant
Cranberry
*BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia)
Saw Palmetto
