Part 5—Indications relating to the gastrointestinal system
Indications relating to the gastrointestinal system
1 Aid/assist digestion of glucose/sugar/carbohydrates Scientific Product presentation must not imply or refer to lowering or raising blood sugar/glucose levels from outside of the normal healthy range.
2 Aid/assist digestion of lactose Scientific or Traditional
3 Aid/assist digestion/breakdown of dietary fat Scientific or Traditional If product is indicated for weight loss, label statement: When used in conjunction with a program of reduced intake of dietary calories and increased physical activity.
4 Aid/assist expulsion of intestinal gas Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
5 Aid/assist fat distribution and assimilation in the digestive system Scientific Product presentation must not imply or refer to lowering blood lipids, blood fats and triglycerides.
6 Aid/assist fat emulsification in the digestive system Scientific Product presentation must not imply or refer to lowering blood lipids, blood fats and triglycerides.
7 Aid/assist healthy liver regeneration Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
8 Aid/assist/helps digestion of (state nutrient) Scientific
9 Aid/assist/helps digestion of fats/fatty acids/triglycerides/lipid Scientific Product presentation must not imply or refer to lowering blood lipids, blood fats and triglycerides.
10 Aid/assist/helps elimination of dietary fat Scientific or Traditional If product is indicated for weight loss, label statement: When used in conjunction with a program of reduced intake of dietary calories and increased physical activity.
11 Aid/assist/helps in the management of carbohydrate cravings Scientific or Traditional If product is indicated for weight loss, label statement: When used in conjunction with a program of reduced intake of dietary calories and increased physical activity.
12 Aid/assist/helps in the management of food cravings Scientific or Traditional If product is indicated for weight loss, label statement: When used in conjunction with a program of reduced intake of dietary calories and increased physical activity.
13 Aid/assist/helps in the management of sugar cravings Scientific or Traditional If product is indicated for weight loss, label statement: When used in conjunction with a program of reduced intake of dietary calories and increased physical activity.
14 Aids/assists repair of gastrointestinal/gut wall lining Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
15 Antacid/reduces stomach acid Scientific Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
16 Antiemetic/Decrease/reduce/relieve vomiting Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
17 Aperient/laxative Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
18 Bitter tonic/stimulate gastric secretions Traditional
19 Bowel Tonic Traditional
20 Cholagogue/promote bile flow from gall bladder Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
21 Decrease/reduce carbohydrate cravings Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to eating disorders.
If product is indicated for weight loss, label statement: When used in conjunction with a program of reduced intake of dietary calories and increased physical activity.
22 Decrease/reduce food stagnation associated with poor or sluggish digestion Scientific or Traditional
23 Decrease/reduce loose stools Scientific or Traditional Label statement: Seek medical advice if diarrhoea persists for more than: 6 hours in infants under 6 months, 12 hours in children under 3 years, 24 hours in children aged 3 to 6 years or 48 hours in adults and children over 6 years (or words to that effect).
24 Decrease/reduce sweet taste recognition on the tongue Scientific or Traditional
25 Decrease/reduce/relieve abdominal bloating/distention Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
26 Decrease/reduce/relieve abdominal cramping Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
27 Decrease/reduce/relieve abdominal feeling of fullness Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
28 Decrease/reduce/relieve abdominal griping pain Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
29 Decrease/reduce/relieve abdominal pain/discomfort Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
30 Decrease/reduce/relieve abdominal spasm Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
31 Decrease/reduce/relieve bowel discomfort Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
32 Decrease/reduce/relieve colic (wind/gas pain) Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
33 Decrease/reduce/relieve constipation Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
34 Decrease/reduce/relieve diarrhoea Scientific or Traditional Label statement: Seek medical advice if diarrhoea persists for more than: 6 hours in infants under 6 months, 12 hours in children under 3 years, 24 hours in children aged 3 to 6 years or 48 hours in adults and children over 6 years (or words to that effect).
35 Decrease/reduce/relieve digestive spasms Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
36 Decrease/reduce/relieve excess intestinal gas Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
37 Decrease/reduce/relieve flatulence/carminative Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
38 Decrease/reduce/relieve gastrointestinal pain Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
39 Decrease/reduce/relieve hiccups Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
40 Decrease/reduce/relieve loss of appetite Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to eating disorders.
41 Decrease/reduce/relieve nausea Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
42 Decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms associated with occasional overindulgence Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Product presentation must not encourage excessive or harmful consumption of alcohol or other toxic substances.
43 Decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of heartburn Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
44 Decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of indigestion/dyspepsia Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
45 Decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of lactose intolerance Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
46 Decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of motion/travel/sea sickness Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
47 Decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of nervous indigestion Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
48 Decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of stomach upsets Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
49 Digestive tonic/Improve digestive weakness Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
50 Enhance the assimilation/transportation of nutrients Scientific or Traditional
51 Enhance/ promote stomach health Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
52 Enhance/improve/promote/increase bowel regularity Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
53 Enhance/improve/promote/increase bowel waste elimination Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
54 Enhance/promote healthy digestion Scientific or Traditional
55 Help reduce occurrence of symptoms of medically diagnosed Irritable Bowel Syndrome Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, worsen or episodes become more frequent talk to your medical practitioner.
Product presentation must only refer to medically diagnosed IBS.
56 Help restore good/beneficial/friendly gut flora after antibiotic use Scientific
57 Helps balance brain-gut interaction Traditional
58 Helps decrease/reduce dietary fat absorption in digestive system Scientific or Traditional If product is indicated for weight loss, label statement: When used in conjunction with a program of reduced intake of dietary calories and increased physical activity.
59 Helps decrease/reduce/relieve brain-gut interaction Traditional
60 Helps decrease/reduce/relieve mild gastrointestinal tract inflammation Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
61 Helps decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of infant colic Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist or worsen talk to your medical practitioner.
62 Helps decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of mild gastritis Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist or worsen talk to your medical practitioner.
Product presentation must only refer to mild gastritis.
63 Helps decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of occasional hangovers Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not encourage excessive or harmful consumption of alcohol or other toxic substances.
64 Helps decrease/reduce/relieve symptoms of traveller's diarrhoea Scientific or Traditional Label statement: Seek medical advice if diarrhoea persists for more than: 6 hours in infants under 6 months, 12 hours in children under 3 years, 24 hours in children aged 3 to 6 years or 48 hours in adults and children over 6 years (or words to that effect).
65 Helps delay stomach (gastric) emptying Scientific or Traditional
66 Helps enhance/improve/promote taste sensation Scientific or Traditional
67 Helps enhance/improve/promote/increase bile secretion/flow Scientific or Traditional
68 Helps enhance/improve/promote/increase healthy digestive system flora/good bacteria growth Scientific or Traditional
70 Helps enhance/improve/promote/increase intestinal transit time Scientific or Traditional
71 Helps enhance/promote gallbladder health Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
72 Helps enhance/promote gastrointestinal system health Scientific or Traditional
73 Helps enhance/promote gastrointestinal system mucosa health Scientific or Traditional
74 Helps enhance/promote healthy colon function Scientific or Traditional
75 Helps enhance/promote healthy digestive system function Scientific or Traditional
76 Helps enhance/promote healthy gallbladder function Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
77 Helps enhance/promote healthy liver function Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
78 Helps enhance/promote healthy small intestine function Scientific or Traditional
79 Helps maintain/support bile secretion/flow Scientific or Traditional
80 Helps maintain/support good/beneficial/friendly gut flora during antibiotic use Scientific
81 Helps reduce occurrence of abdominal bloating Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
82 Helps reduce occurrence of abdominal spasm Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
83 Helps reduce occurrence of constipation Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
84 Helps reduce occurrence of diarrhoea Scientific or Traditional Label statement: Seek medical advice if diarrhoea persists for more than: 6 hours in infants under 6 months, 12 hours in children under 3 years, 24 hours in children aged 3 to 6 years or 48 hours in adults and children over 6 years (or words to that effect).
85 Helps reduce occurrence of symptoms of indigestion/dyspepsia Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
86 Helps reduce occurrence of symptoms of medically diagnosed gluten sensitivity caused by inadvertent gluten ingestion Scientific Label statement: If symptoms persist, worsen or episodes become more frequent talk to your medical practitioner.
Label statement: For use only in conjunction with a gluten-free diet.
Product presentation must not imply or refer to individuals with coeliac disease or dermatitis herpetiformis.
87 Helps reduce occurrence of symptoms of motion/travel/sea sickness Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
88 Helps reduce occurrence of symptoms of traveller's diarrhoea Scientific or Traditional Label statement: Seek medical advice if diarrhoea persists for more than: 6 hours in infants under 6 months, 12 hours in children under 3 years, 24 hours in children aged 3 to 6 years or 48 hours in adults and children over 6 years (or words to that effect).
89 Helps regulate appetite Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to eating disorders.
90 Helps restore good/beneficial/friendly intestinal/gut/bowel flora Scientific or Traditional
92 Hepatoprotectant/protect the liver Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not encourage excessive or harmful consumption of alcohol or other toxic substances.
93 Increase bowel movements by increasing stool bulk Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
94 Liver tonic/Enhance liver health Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
95 Maintain/support bile production Scientific or Traditional
96 Maintain/support bowel regularity Scientific or Traditional Label statement: Drink plenty of water (or words to that effect).
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
97 Maintain/support bowel regularity by increasing stool bulk Scientific or Traditional Label statement: Drink plenty of water (or words to that effect).
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
98 Maintain/support digestion/assimilation of nutrients Scientific or Traditional
99 Maintain/support digestive system health Scientific or Traditional
100 Maintain/support gallbladder function Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
101 Maintain/support gallbladder health Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
102 Maintain/support gastrointestinal mucosal membrane health Scientific or Traditional
103 Maintain/support gastrointestinal system health Scientific or Traditional
104 Maintain/support good/beneficial/friendly bacteria adherence to intestinal mucosa Scientific
105 Maintain/support healthy appetite Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to eating disorders.
106 Maintain/support healthy bowel/colon function Scientific or Traditional
107 Maintain/support healthy digestion Scientific or Traditional
108 Maintain/support healthy digestive system function Scientific or Traditional
109 Maintain/support healthy gastrointestinal function Scientific or Traditional
110 Maintain/support healthy liver function Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
111 Maintain/support healthy liver regeneration Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
112 Maintain/support healthy mucous linings of the digestive system Scientific or Traditional
113 Maintain/support healthy small intestine function Scientific or Traditional
115 Maintain/support intestinal health Scientific or Traditional
116 Maintain/support intestinal transit time Scientific or Traditional
117 Maintain/support liver health Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
118 Maintain/support small intestine health Scientific or Traditional
119 Maintain/support small intestine good/beneficial/friendly flora Scientific
120 Maintain/support smell sensation Scientific or Traditional
121 Maintain/support stomach function Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
122 Maintain/support stomach health Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to disease in any body organ.
123 Maintain/support taste sensation Scientific or Traditional
125 Orexigenic/improve/promote healthy appetite Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to eating disorders.
126 Promote bile flow from liver/chloretic Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
127 Promote/enhance feeling of satiety Scientific or Traditional
128 Promote/increase bowel evacuation Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
129 Reduce occurrence of excess intestinal wind/gas Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
130 Reduce occurrence of nausea/vomiting Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
131 Reduce/decrease/supress hunger/appetite Scientific or Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to eating disorders.
132 Relief of symptoms of medically diagnosed Irritable Bowel Syndrome Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist or worsen talk to your medical practitioner.
Product presentation must only refer to medically diagnosed IBS.
133 Relieve digestive discomfort Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
134 Relieve dry stools Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
135 Relieve excessive belching Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
136 Sialagogue/promote saliva production Traditional
137 Softens stool to ease bowel motions Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
138 Soothe gastro-intestinal tract mucous membranes Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
139 Stimulant laxative Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.
Label statement: Do not use when abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting are present or if you develop diarrhoea. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding - seek the advice of a healthcare professional before taking this product (or words to that effect).
140 Stimulates/increases digestive gastric hydrochloric acid secretion Scientific or Traditional
141 Tonify/nourish/strengthen/replenish liver Traditional Product presentation must not imply or refer to liver disease, such as cirrhosis, hepatitis.
142 Vermifuge/helps remove intestinal threadworms/pinworms Scientific or Traditional Label statement: If symptoms persist, talk to your health professional.