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Essential oils and flower remedies are often mistaken for one another – but they are not the same products at all.

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

People who have never used flower essences, for instance, may lift the bottle to their nose to see what it smells like – and b

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

shocked to learn that there is no fragrance at all, because flower essences have nothing to do with fragrance; their purpose is

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

to transmit the vibrational properties of individual flowers (or a combination of flowers, in some cases) to humans or animals.

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

On the other hand, essential oils, which are used in aromatherapy, DO have fragrance – and are created for the purpose of extrac

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ting or enhancing the fragrance from the flowers. Both kinds of products are natural medicines that share the following simi

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

arities:

• Flowers are the source of their power

• Both products are considered “holistic” – or part of the complementary

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

and integrative medicine fields – because they address (in most cases) whole body systems rather than symptoms in isolation

• B

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

th hold the “life force” or Chi of the plant from which it was taken

• Both kinds of products are important for their natural

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

healing properties

The main differences between the two kinds of products are:

• They work on different systems in the

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ody; essential oils (or aromatherapy) work through the physical (olfactory) system, and flower essences work through the electri

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

cal (electromagnetic) system.

• Essential oils have fragrance; flower essences do not.

• Essential oils are generally applied

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

opically (although some food-grade oils may be taken internally – be sure to check the manufacturers recommendations and instruc

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

tions before EVER taking essential oils internally, however, because many of them are toxic); flower remedies are drops usually

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

aken orally.

There might be circumstances where both kinds of products would be useful, but in most cases you would seek either

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

one kind of product or the other. If, for instance, you were seeking ways to reduce stress and anxiety, you might take a flowe

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

remedy for stress and anxiety while also relaxing to a nice blend of essential oils in your bath or through an aromatherapy dif

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

fuser. Also, different people might respond better to one kind of remedy vs another; there are people who prefer fragrance – an

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

others who don’t.

If you are in doubt about which kind of product would be right for you, try both – and see which one inspire

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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