Popular Herbs in the U.S.

Market Overview

Definition Guide

Herbal Marketplace Self-prescribed Reasons

Energy Colds Immunity Sleep

Challenges Education Use Benefits Safety Quality Drug interactions

Nature’s Medicine Ancient Beginnings

Sumerians (4000BC) Chinese & Egyptians (3000 BC)

Nature’s Aspirin Hippocrates & Dioscorides (400 BC)

Treatment for Malaria Jesuit’s Powder (1630 AD)

The First Anesthetic Indians of the Andes (1500 AD)

What is an Herb? Herbs as medicinal are crude drugs of

vegetable origin used for the treatment of disease states or to attain/maintain improved health.

Herbs conform to drugs when they are used in the treatment, cure, mitigation of disease or improvement of health.

Manufacturer Claims DefinedStructure/Function Disease

Helps maintain a health cardiovascular system

Helps prevent cardiovascular disease

Helps prevent heart attacks

Crepe Statement~~

This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Controversy and Warnings Standardized Quality & Safety

Contamination Controlled Studies Drug interactions Pregnancy

Lactation Treat symptoms not

disease

Top TEN Herbs Considered Safe & Effective Echinacea

Feverfew

Garlic

Ginger

Ginko Biloba

Ginseng

Milk thistle

Saw Palmetto

St. John’s Wart

Valerian Root

Herbs That Should Be Used with Caution Ma Huang Chaparrall Yohimbe Lobelia Comfrey Germander

Stroke Liver toxicity Kidney failure Coma Liver toxicity Liver toxicity

Resources for the Health Care Professional United States Pharmacopoeia

www.usp.org American Herbal & Therapeutics

www.herbal-aph.org Commission E

www.Herbalgram.org FDA’s Med Watch

www.fda.gov/medwatch NIH Office of Alternative Medicine

www.clinicaltrials.gov www.dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov