botanicals - Answers plant or plant parts to create scents or to develop therapeutic medicinal
treatments
-can come from all parts of plant
-may include chemicals extracted from plants
uses of botanicals - Answers -supplement diet
-provide fragrance
-spices used to flavor food
-cosmetic uses (add fragrance or enhance look)
-additives to prescription and non-prescription drugs
historical uses of botanicals - Answers -Egyptians used myrrh, cumin, caraway, fennel, olive oil
and licorice
-American Indians and early Americans used herbs and bark
-Indians of Peru
-uses in Ayurvedic medicine and TCM
botanical uses in Indians of Peru - Answers -quinine to treat malaria
-limes to prevent scurvy
-foxglove for certain heart conditions
herbalist - Answers practitioner and contributor to field of herbal medicine
crude herbs - Answers collected and dried out, cut and sifted out
-may be cooked into teas
powders - Answers ground crude herbs
-may ingest in natural form or cooked to make teas
teas - Answers aqueous extractions of crude herbs or herbal powders
concentrated herbal extractions - Answers may be in liquid or solid form and anywhere from 2
to 100 times as concentrated as crude herbs
infusion - Answers concentrate made by stepping one ounce of herb into two cups of water
, -use more delicate part of plant (leaves, flowers, and light stems)
tinctures - Answers extracts made by soaking herbs in solution (usually alcohol)
dried decoctions or concentrated granules - Answers herbs cooked as teas and solid residue is
removed, after which remaining liquids are dried out until only powders remain
-powders about 4 times as potent as herb
capsules - Answers powdered herbs, dried decoctions or concentrated extracts placed in gelatin
capsules
bolus - Answers rectal or vaginal suppository
-made with cocoa butter, water or honey mixed with powdered herbs
tablets - Answers powdered herbs, dried decoctions, or concentrated herbal extracts with a
binding substance added, then pressed into this
gelcaps - Answers sealed gelatin capsules that hold either tinctures or concentrated liquid
herbal extracts
bath - Answers 2 to 4 quarts of decoction or infusion, strained and then added to tub of
bathwater
poultice - Answers preparation of fresh, dry, ground or powdered herb and herbal mixture that is
wrapped in thin cotton or wool cloth and applied to skin
fomentation - Answers cloth soaked in infusion or decoction from which all herb as been
strained
liniment - Answers liquid base and is rubbed into sore muscles and joints
-made by making decoration or infusion and rubbing then adding 1/4 to 1/2 part olive oil and/or
rubbing alcohol
1994 - Answers FDA regulated herbs and dietary supplements
How does the FDA regulate dietary supplements? - Answers manufacturers don't have to seek
FDA approval, but FDA supposed to regulate botanicals
DSHEA meaning - Answers US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
DSHEA definition of herbals - Answers -intended to supplement diet
-contains one or more dietary ingredient (vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals and
amino acids or their constituents)