The crazy "use this remedy for that" claims in USA on remedy containers are required by law. They are/were nothing to do with trying to sell remedies by silly treatment claims and everything to do with FDA requirements to list a remedy in the HPUS:
HPUS - Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, is under the jurisdiction of the FDA. The FDA requires certain conditions to be met for a remedy to be listed in the HPUS. If it is listed, it may be OTC. If it is not listed, it needs a prescription by FDA law.
THAT is why the labeling of non-homeopathic usage started.
So manufacturers were forced to meet the list of conditions for HPUS inclusion in order to be allowed to sell a remedy OTC at all in USA. The HPUS conditions are complicated, but one of the main ways to get a remedy into the HPUS (and thus available without prescription in USA) is to prove in clinical trials that it "can be used for a specific use in a self-limiting condition". In other words - prove it works in some way for something where the condition would heal anyway without it.
However ridiculous this is - and however un-homeopathic it is - this is how things are in USA.
The HPUS contains the recipe for how to make the remedy - and only a manufacturer licensed by the FDA and using the HPUS recipe may make that remedy in USA. And only a remedy made by HPUS in such a licensed facility may be sold as or called a "homeopathic remedy". Mixtures and other stuff can be called "homeopathic" or"homeopathic product" or almost any other way of misusing the word homeopathic or claiming the ingredients "come from the HPUS" etc - but it may not be called specifically a "homeopathic remedy". unless the HPUS recipe is used to make it as a single remedy.
That for example, is why Celletech was at one point closed down - they did not use HPUS recipes but were calling the products homeopathic remedies.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
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