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KMID : 0861020120270020025
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Korea Journal of Herbology
2012 Volume.27 No. 2 p.25 ~ p.29
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A Research on Management System of Herbal Medicine in Common Use for Food and Medicine
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Kweon Kee-Tae
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Abstract
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Objectives: This article reviews a solution preventing the illegal distribution of herbal medicine in common use
for food and medicine and risks on public health by conducting safety management of food and medicine.
Also, this article would like to contribute to improvement of public health treating diseases in compliance with
accurate diagnosis and prescription of Oriental Medicine Doctor(“OMD”)’s.
Methods: An approach in this research can be categorized into two ： first, to examine the current
administrative situation and problems of herbal medicine in common use for food and medicine based on policy
documents of Ministry of Health and Welfare and Korea Food and Drug Adminstration(“KFDA”) and academic
articles of the herbal medicine；second, to find reasonable administrative solutions to solve the problems.
Solutions: A solution is to strengthen the management level of herbal medicine in common use for food and
medicine by selecting 117 items as target items requiring concentrated management. In case herbal medicine is
imported for food, KFDA strengthens the quality management level of herbal medicine by making use of
inspection frequency at random, collecting and verifying herbal medicine on the market. However, KFDA
decides to maintain current different quality specification system of food and medicine reflecting a civil
complaint that quality specification of food and medicine should separately managed according to the purpose of
use. Herbal medicine as medicine that is functioned as treating diseases and alleviating symptoms, unlike
herbal medicine for food, can cure all kinds of diseases by recovering inner balance of human body, making
use of other properties of herbal medicine. Medicine has its own properties. If a doctor uses properties of
medicine appropriately, he cures diseases. If a doctor uses herbal medicine inappropriately. he may damage
human body. Thus, whether side effects of medicine depend on a doctor who uses herbal medicine.
Conclusions: All herbal medicine will be supplied into the market after strict safety control of manufacturers of
herbal medicine according to the revised Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, beginning in April, 2012. Thus, people can
take safer and more reliable herbal medicine through strengthening safety management of herbal medicine and
improving quality and transparency in the distribution system. Herbal medicine should appropriately be
prescribed by licensed OMD because herbal medicine is used to treat diseases and alleviate symptoms, unlike
herbal medicine for food
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KEYWORD
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Management System, Herbal Medicine, Common Use, Food, Medicine
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