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Module 06: Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Therapies Flashcards

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These are therapies used together with conventional treatment recommended by a person’s health care practitioner.

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Complementary Therapy

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What’s another term for complementary therapies?

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Integrative Health Care Programs

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What are some examples of complementary therapies?

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(1) Therapeutic Touch
(2) Hypnotherapy
(3) Chiropractic Therapy
(4) Guided Imagery
(5) Breathwork

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These are non pharmacological therapies used in place of conventional therapies.

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Alternative Therapies

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What are some examples of alternative therapies?

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(1) Exercise
(2) Chiropractic
(3) Herbal Supplements

E.g. A person with chronic pain uses yoga to encourage flexibility and relaxation at the same time in which analgesics or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed.

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These are interventions done by licensed health care providers.

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Integrative Therapies

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What does integrative therapies emphasize?

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These emphasize the importance of the relationship between the practitioner and the patient.

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How would you describe integrative therapies?

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“A way of being, knowing, doing that advances the health and well-being of persons, families, and communities through caring-healing relationships.”

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This type of complementary therapy refers to the use of natural products.

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Biologically Based Therapies

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What are some examples of biologically based therapies?

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(1) Orthomolecular medicine (megavitamin)
(2) Probiotics (live microorganisms)
(3) The “zone” dietary program

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These types of vitamins increase the intake of vitamin C.

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Orthomolecular medicine (megavitamin)

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This type of complementary therapy refer to the manipulation of energy fields.

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Energy Therapies

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What are some examples of energy therapies?

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(1) Acupuncture
(2) Healing Touch
(3) Reiki Therapy
(4) Therapeutic Touch
(5) Magnet Therapy

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This type of therapy refers to the act of placing hands on or above the body area.

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Reiki Therapy

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This type of complementary therapy refers to the involvement of body with focus on body structures and systems.

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Manipulative and Body Based Methods

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What are some examples of Manipulative and Body Based Methods?

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(1) Acupressure
(2) Chiropractic medicine
(3) Massage Therapy
(4) Simple touch

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This type of complementary therapy refers o the connections between thoughts and physiological functioning?

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Mind-body Interventions

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What are some examples of Mind-Body Interventions?

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(1) Music Therapy
(2) Tai Chi
(3) Yoga

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What are some movement therapies based on Eastern and Western approaches?

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(1) Dance Therapy
(2) Feldenkrais methods
(3) Pilates

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This method pertains to the establishment of good self-image.

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Feldenkrais method

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This type of complementary therapies refer to traditional Chinese medicine and native American traditional healing by asking spirits for direction.

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Whole Medical Systems

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This pertains to how the mind modifies the biochemical functions of the major organ systems in response to feedback.

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Stress response (thoughts and feelings cause the release of certain chemicals)

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This pertains to how the mind reduces generalized cognitive, physiological and behavioral arousal.

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Relaxation Response

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This elongates muscle fibers and reduces the neural impulses sent to the brain thereby decreasing brain activity.

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Relaxation

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These teach individuals ways to change their behavior to help alter physical responses to stress and improve symptoms such as muscle tension, GI discomfort and sleep deprivation.

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Complementary Therapies

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These helps individuals to develop cognitive skills to reduce negative ways of thinking in which they respond to situations in their environment.

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Relaxation Therapy

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This pertains to the ability to identify, differentiate and maintain attention.

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Focusing

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This is the ability to accept and tolerate experiences that are uncertain and unfamiliar.

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Receptivity

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This is the ability to stop unnecessary goal directed and analytic activity.

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Passivity

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What is the long term goal of relaxation therapy?

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People to continually monitor themselves for indicators of tension and consciously let go and release the tension contained in various body parts.

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This training teaches the individual how to effectively rest and reduce tension in the body. The person learns how to detect subtle localized muscle tension sequentially.

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Progressive relaxation

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The goal of this is to still the mind intentionally without the need to tighten and relax any particular body part.

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Passive relaxation (slow abdominal breathing exercises)

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Name the clinical application of relaxation therapy.

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(1) Lowers BP, HR, Muscle tension, improve well being and reduce symptom distress.
(2) Allows Individuals to exert control over their lives.
(3) Reduced turnover and improved patient satisfaction scores

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This often leads to improved staff satisfaction, staff relationships, communication and workload perceptions.

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Deep Breathing Exercises and Focusing

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Name the limitations of relaxation therapy.

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(1) Continued intensification of symptoms or development of new symptoms

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Under limitations of relaxation therapy, This require moderate expenditure of energy which often increases fatigue and limits an individual’s ability to complete relaxation practice and sessions.

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Active Passive Relaxation

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This is an activity that limits stimulus by directing attention to a single or repetitive stimulus to the person is able to become aware of self.

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Meditation

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What are some clinical application of breathing and meditation?

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(1) Relaxing and stilling the mind
(2) Reduces overall systolic and diastolic BP which minimizes hypertensive risks
(3) Reduces relapses in alcohol treatment programs
(4) Patients with cancer often experience depression, anxiety and distress (mindfulness-based cognitive therapies
(5) Patients with PTSD benefits
(6) Improves productivity, mood, increases sense of identity and lowers irritability

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The word meditari means what?

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To pay attention

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What are the four (4) components of meditation?

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(1) Quiet Space
(2) Comfortable position
(3) Receptive attitude
(4) Focus attention

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This is a mind body therapy that uses the conscious mind to create mental images to stimulate physical changes in body, improved perceived well being, and or enhance self awareness.

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Imagery or Visualization

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What are some limitations of meditation?

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(1) Person who has a strong fear of losing control can perceive it as a form of mind control and thus will be resistant to the technique.
(2) Patients will become hypertensive
(3) Increases the effects of certain drugs

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What are the clinical applications of imagery?

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(1) May provoke powerful psychophysiological responses, such as changes in GI secretions, body chemistry, blood flow, wound healing and heart rate.
(2) Helps control or relieve pain, decrease nightmares and improve sleep.
(3) Aids in chronic conditions such as asthma, sickle cell anemia and migraines

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What are some limitations of imagery?

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(1) Increased anxiety and fear among PTSD patients and social anxiety patients
(2) Patients with COPD and asthma may experience airway obstruction

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This is a mind body technique that uses instruments to teach self-regulation and voluntary self control over physiologic responses.

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Biofeedback

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This regulates or realigns vital energy. It modifies response of the body to pain and how pain is processed by the central neural pathways and cerebral function.

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Acupuncture

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This is the act of placing practitioners open palms either on or close to the body of a person.

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Therapeutic touch

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This views health as life in balance which manifests as lustrous hair, a radiant complexion, engaged interactions, a body that functions without limitations and emotional balance.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine

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This is a chemical compound or substance produced by a living organism and includes herbal medicines, dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, essential oils and probiotics.

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Natural product

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Stress response is a what?

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An adaptive response

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Complementary therapies require:

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(1) Involvement
(2) Commitment

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This is done for a person who experiences chronic pain to encourage flexibility and relaxation at the same time in which analgesics or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed

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Yoga

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This consist of one or more dietary ingredients including vitamins, minerals, herbs, or other botanical products

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Dietary Supplements

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This pertains to a vegan diet

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Macrobiotic Diet

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This pertains to fungi-based
(mushrooms) products

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Myotherapies

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This is a traditional Chinese method of producing analgesia or altering the function of a body system by inserting thin needles along the meridians as direct manipulation of energetic meridians influences deeper internal organs by redirecting qi.

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Acupuncture

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This is biomedical therapy that directly utilizes gentle touch on or close to body in order to influence and support human energy system and bring balance to the whole body in all aspects, credentials of practitioners.

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Healing Touch

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This is derived from ancient Buddhist rituals, practitioner places hand on or above a body area and transfers “universal life energy” providing strength, harmony, and balance to treat patient’s health disturbances

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Reiki Therapy

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This is the direction of a practitioner’s balanced energies in an intentional manner towards those of a patient, hands of the practitioner lay on or close to the patient’s body

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Therapeutic touch

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In this, magnets are applied to the body surface, producing a measurable magnetic field, it is used primarily to alleviate pain associated with musculoskeletal injuries or disorders

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Magnet Therapy

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This is the application of digital pressure in a specified way on designated points on the body to relieve pain, produce algesia, or regulate body function

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Acupressure

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This is known as the manipulation of spinal column and includes physiotherapy and diet therapy

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Chiropractic Medicine

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This is the manipulation of soft tissues through stroking, rubbing, or kneading to increase, circulation, improve muscle tone, and provide relaxation

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Massage Therapy

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This is the act of touching the patient in an appropriate and gentle way to make connection, display acceptance, and give appreciation

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Simple Touch

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This is used to reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, and express their unspoken and frequently unconscious concerns about their disease

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Art Therapy

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This is the act of providing person
with visual or auditory information about autonomic physiological functions of the body like muscle tension, skin temperature, and brain wave activity through the use of instruments

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Biofeedback

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This is the act of using a variety of
breathing patterns to relax, invigorate, or open emotional channels

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Breathwork

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This pertains to the act of concentrating on an image or a series of images to treat pathological conditions

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Guided imagery

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This is a self-directed practice for relaxing the body and calming the mind using focused rhythmic breathing

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Meditation

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This is used to to address physical, psychological, cognitive, and social needs of
individuals with disabilities and
illnesses, it improves physical
movement and/o communication, develops emotional expression, evokes memories, and distracts people who are in pain

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Music Therapy

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This is an incorporation of breath, movement, and meditation to cleanse, strengthen, and circulate vital life energy and blood, it stimulates the immune system, and maintain external and
internal balance

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Tai Chi

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This pertains to act of focusing on body musculature, posture, breathing mechanisms, and consciousness, it aims to achieve attainment of physical and mental well-being through mastery of body through exercise, holding of
postures, proper breathing, and
meditation

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Yoga

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Their type of healing aims to create a balance between the patient and environment, thereby
sustaining health

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Latin American

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Their type of healing pertains to the act of asking spirits for their direction in bringing healing to people to promote wholeness
and healing

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Native American

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This pertains to therapeutics focused on treating the whole person and promoting health and well-being rather than an individual disease

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Naturopathic Medicine

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This is a chemical compound or
substance produced by a living organism, it includes herbal medicines/botanicals, dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals,
myotherapies, essential oils, and
probiotics. Most are sold over the counter as dietary supplements

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Natural Product

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These are notapproved for use as
drugs and are not regulated by FDA, companies are allowed to sell for as long as there are no health claims written on their
labels

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Herbal Medicines

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