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Article: Homeopathic remedies win adherents.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Chain Drug Review
- Article date:
- May 22, 2000
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NEW YORK -- Sales of homeopathic cough/cold items have benefited by consumers' willingness to try alternative remedies.
While lay people often confuse homeopathic products with such natural items as herbs, there is an important distinction to be made between the two.
Homeopathic medicine is based on the principle of stimulating the body's immune system by treating symptoms with substances that evoke a similar symptom.
And while herbal and vitamin supplements are limited to making structure/function claims on their labeling under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, homeopathic remedies are classified as drugs and thus required to ...