TRADITIONAL MEDICINES & NATURAL PRODUCTS

Question 1

_____________ refers to health practices, approaches, knowledge, and beliefs incorporating plant, animal, and mineral-based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques, and exercises, applied singularly or in combination to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses or maintain well-being.

Answer 1

Traditional medicine

Question 2

It is the sum total of the knowledge, skill, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness.

Answer 2

Traditional medicine

Question 3

Although written records about medicinal plants dated back at least 5,000 years to the Sumerians, who described well- established medicinal uses for such plants as laurel, caraway, and thyme, archeological studies have shown that the practice of herbal medicine dates as far back as 60,000 years ago in ______ and 8,000 years ago in ______

Answer 3

a. Iraq
b. China

Question 4

include herbs, herbal materials, herbal preparations, and finished herbal products that contain, as active ingredients, parts of plants, other plant materials or combinations thereof.

Answer 4

HERBAL MEDICINES

Question 5

The WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific has adopted three resolutions, a. _____ b. ____ and c. _______ recognizing that traditional medicine practices, particularly herbal medicine and acupuncture, constitute appropriate health practices that can be integrated into national health strategies.

Answer 5

WPR/RC36.R6 in 1985,
WPR/RC38.R16 in 1987, and
WPR/RC52.R4 in 2001

Question 6

preparations from plant materials whose claimed application is/are based only on experience of long usage which should be at least 5 or more decades as documented in medical, historical and ethnological literature

Answer 6

Traditionally used Herbal Products

Question 7

• finished labeled medicinal products that contain active ingredient/s aerial or underground part(s) of plants or any other plant material or combination thereof, whether in the crude state or as plant preparations. Herbal medicines may contain excipients in addition to the active ingredient
  ● Shall have a specific therapeutic claim(s) and shall be Intended for use in the diagnosis, alleviation, cure or treatment of disease, promotion of health, or intended to affect or modify the structure or any function of the body of humans or animals

Answer 7

Herbal medicines