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Some herbs do fall under that category, but only because dietary supplement restrictions apply to supplements intended to add nutritional value to the diet. quote:A dietary supplement is a product intended for ingestion that contains a "dietary ingredient" intended to add further nutritional value to (supplement) the diet. A "dietary ingredient" may be one, or any combination, of the following substances: Herbal supplements intended for medicinal purposes rather than nutritional purposes aren't covered, though they also aren't allowed to make specific medicinal claims, like saying they will cure or treat some specific ailment. General claims only.
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Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:No, because the FD&C definition of drug includes Huh, I've been misinformed, then; I was under the impression that so long as you didn't make specific medicinal claims, the FDA had no jurisdiction over you. How does something like Airborne or a homeopathic remedy get away with not needing FDA approval, then?
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Tim Raines IRL posted:Placebos work and are very safe; why shouldn't their sale and advocacy be just as allowable as things which are active and potentially much more dangerous? If they sold them as placebos instead of alternative medicine, explained what the placebo effect was, and were regulated to ensure that a situation like the zinc poisoning mentioned earlier couldn't happen, then that would be a more reasonable argument. Just giving placebos as a treatment without stating that they're placebos, though, is medically unethical, because it's misinforming the patient about the nature of the treatment they're receiving.
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Tim Raines IRL posted:I haven't said anything about homeopathy other than that it's bullshit, and therefore won't hurt anything besides your wallet (or help anything besides the provider's bankroll). You're right that acupuncture isn't homeopathic medicine (though I assume that was just a misstatement by the previous poster in refering to any alternative medicine as homeopathic), but it is very much not the case that homeopathy won't hurt anything but your wallet. Zicam Cold Remedy contains zinc acetate diluted to 1/100 and zinc gluconate diluted to 1/10, both still strong enough that some people that have taken it have suffered anosmia as a result of minor zinc toxicity. Earlier in the thread a case was mentioned where a homeopathic treatment even caused blindness through zinc toxicity, which I assume was also Zicam. Because it's labeled "homeopathic", it's exempt from FDA regulation even in spite of this.
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