In my opinion, all natural health products including traditional Chinese herbal medicines should all be regulated because of the possible side effects that they may have. Children, pregnant, breast feeding women and elderly with serious illness may be particularly affected by products side effects. The ideal system for regulating the natural health products, in my opinion, is a system that considers the safety and the efficacy of the product and evaluate the product of the possibility of side effects before the product can be licenced or approved for marketing.
Natural products include a large and diverse group of substances from a variety of sources. They are produced by marine organisms, bacteria, fungi, and plants. The term includes complex extracts from these producers, and isolated compounds derived from these extracts. Natural health products are defined as, vitamins minerals, herbal remedies, traditional medicines, probiotics and other products like amino acids and essential fatty acids.
Being natural doesn’t mean that the product should be considered a safe product. These products are designed to affect the body and could cause side effects. Natural health
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The natural health product regulations in Canada, require the product to have a product license and site licence and the product must be reviewed for safety, efficacy and quality. The regulations require any site where natural health products are manufactured, imported, labeled, packaged and distributed to have a site license, and the imported products must come from sites that meet the Canadian good manufacturing practices. The product will also undergo a pre-marketing review to evaluate the safety, efficacy and the quality of the product. Products that meet the required criteria will be approved for marketing and issued a natural product number or homeopathic medicine
This product was released in Canada due to an abundant amount of hiking trails and forests. Since there are many Canadians who
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994". December 1, 1995.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a treatment or cure that is given additionally along with doctor’s care. There are many different CAMs such as acupuncture, hypnosis, yoga, massage and herbal therapy. They are very popular in Asia, especially among Chinese communities. However, the use of CAM is very limited in the health care system of many Western countries, including Canada, due to several reasons. In my point of view, it should be formally recognized and provided as a part of mainstream health care system. Firstly, people nowadays would prefer complementary and alternative medicine rather than conventional medicine. Secondly, the altitude of healthcare professionals has changed a lot, most of young physicians are now considering the use of CAMs into their practice. Finally, the government needs to regulate some of the CAM treatments so in order to promote the use of CAMs and create a better healthcare system.
In addition, the agency is also in charge of providing accurate labels without any misleading information (Farley 1). The DSHEA lets “natural” products be sold without any proof that the product is safe. "In 1994 Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which allowed supplements- broadly defined as vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, and other products that don’t contain approved pharmaceutical drugs and don’t claim to treat d...
One of the reasons that there is so much confusion is the lack of involvement by Federal Food and Drug Administrations in herbal remedies. The Dietary Supplement Health Education Act of 1994 put herbal remedies into the category of dietary supplements. This means that these herbal remedies are not subjected to the same sort of testing that over-the-counter or prescription medications are (USFDA). Michael Mc Guffin, the president of the American Herbal Producers Association has said that testing of these products is unnecessary because, “ these products are tested by years and years of use”.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is becoming a more and more accepted form of complementary medicine in the UK. It is thought that about one million adults in Britain have had acupuncture and that a million herbal prescriptions are written every year. Even as little as ten years ago, TCM was still thought of as a border treatment and one would have been hard pressed to find a practitioner outside of London. Since then, complementary or alternative medicine has been flourishing, and Chinese medical centers have been opening on streets all around the country. “The Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine (RCHM), the self-regulating body which embodies practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine, has seen its membership grow by on average 30% per year to about 350 members at present” (Chinese Cures for British Ills, n.d.).
The major use for herbal medicines is for the promotion of health and for therapy for chronic conditions, instead of being used for life-threatening conditions; except in the event of say advanced cancer or new infectious diseases when conventional medicine practices no longer are working an individual may use traditional remedies. While traditional medicines are often mistaken that because they are natural that they are safe, non-toxic, which is not always the case. In cases when an individual is taking herbs with prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, or other herbs that may cause some adverse side affects. As a flourishing commercial enterprise, it doesn’t matter why an individual uses traditional medicines, it provides important health care services for individuals that have access physically or finantually to allopathic
Additionally as interest in Chinese medicine raises in the west due to increasing desire to positive effects of non-western medicine worldwide and incorporate them into FDA approved medical treatments, understanding the foundations of it becomes important from a practical point of view. Because of this I think it is warranted to overview some of the basic history, ideological foundations and diagnostic techniques that shaped this interesting part of Chinese culture and provide my response to what I think it says about china as a whole(although I will not go into major detail about treatment themselves, such as herbology).
Regulation is an important tool used by our government entities that strongly impacts public health. It can be used to enforce new policies and initiatives in order to control risks or dangers to the public and can encourage improved behaviors within the population. There are legal foundations supporting and permitting the use of regulations in our government, and there are recognized times regulation can be justified.
Natural products include dietary supplements and probiotics. Dietary supplements can be anything from multivitamins to supplemental herbs. Probiotics are live bacteria that are found in the digestive tract (National Center, 2011, para.6). H...
Natural foods are described as whole foods that are grown in gardens, and are unprocessed and unrefined. The downside of natural foods is that they have a shorter shelf life then processed foods. These foods are authentically flavorful, have vibrant colors, and rich textures. "Moreover, they are full of the micronutrient vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and fiber. Typically, they require longer preparation times. In contrast, they receive very little media advertising, and are not well funded with government...
Health care laws and regulations influence the delivery of health care services in the United States. Health regulation and regulations agencies develop and enforce laws to protect and improve the access to affordable health care for all Americans. Regulatory agencies affect health care organizations, health care providers, drug and pharmaceutical companies, and health care research.
Schoenbeck, Joan, and Teresa G. Odle. "Traditional Chinese Medicine." The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. Ed. Jacqueline L. Longe. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 2033-2038. Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Traditional herbal medicine comes from many different areas of the world (Indian, Chinese, African, Western, Native American herbs, Ayurvedic and other indigenous medicines) and in most all of them they are still b...
Frequently a person believes that herbal medicine is more naturally safe and soothing than drugs. Nevertheless, there’s no reasonable defense about this. Though many consumers trusted herbal medicine much more than the synthetic medicine because it’s safe and effective, but like anything else, it has its own limitations too. There are several hostile issues related to herbal medicine that has been quite alarming. Notwithstanding, majority of the most popular herbs are at least nearly safe.