Dietary Supplements, Natural & Complementary Medicine: pharmacology practice questions

Dietary Supplements, Natural & Complementary Medicine is a high-yield area on the PEBC, NAPLEX, OPRA and FPGEE exams. Phartoonz has 40 exam-style Dietary Supplements, Natural & Complementary Medicine questions, each written to test the clinical decisions these licensing exams actually reward — mechanism of action, dosing, monitoring parameters, adverse effects, contraindications and patient counseling.

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Sample questions

Sample 1

Melatonin is used for the following condition:

1Dyslipidemia
2Insomnia
3Energy
4Depression
5Anxiety

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Sample 2

JB gets cold sores (herpes simplex labialis) whenever he is under stress. Which agent is sometimes recommended to help reduce this occurrence?

1Lycopene
2Lysine
3Red yeast rice
4Plant stanols/sterols
5Fish oils

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Sample 3

JB has high cholesterol. Which of the following agents can help improve cholesterol values? (Select ALL that apply.)

1St. John's wort
2Plant stanols/sterols
3Ginseng
4Statins
5Red yeast rice

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