In AS 08.45 and in this chapter,

1. (1) "dietetics"

   1. (A) includes the use of nutritional therapies, nutritional counseling, nutritional substances, vitamins, minerals, and supplements to promote health and to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, illness, and conditions;
   2. (B) does not include the use of a prescription drug, poison, or controlled substance;
2. (2) "division" means the division assigned occupational licensing functions in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;

3. (3) "herbal remedy"

   1. (A) includes medicines derived from or a concentrate or extract of a plant, tree, root, moss, fungus, or other natural substance;
   2. (B) does not include a prescription drug, poison, or controlled substance;
4. (4) "homeopathic remedy" means a remedy defined in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States Abstracts 1993, revised as of December 1992 and adopted by reference except for a prescription drug, poison, or controlled substance;
5. (5) "hydrotherapy" means the use of water in all forms and temperatures to promote health and to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, illness, and conditions;
6. (6) "NPLEX" means the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examination;
7. (7) "poison" means a substance given in a manner that has a likelihood of causing physical injury or death;
8. (8) "prescription drug" means a controlled substance or other medicine requiring a prescription from a physician licensed under AS 08.64 or from another health care professional authorized to issue prescriptions by the law of this state;
9. (9) "sanitation" means the use of an antiseptic, disinfectant, bactericide, pediculicide, virucide, soap, detergent, and light to promote health and to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, illness, and conditions;
10. (10) "suggestion" means the use of education, counseling, teaching, meditation, and assessment to promote health of mind and body and to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, illness, and conditions;
11. (11) "surgery" means the use of a scalpel, sharp cutting instrument, laser, electrical current, or other device to incise or remove living tissue; "surgery" does not include venipuncture or the removal of foreign objects from external tissue.

(Eff. 7/28/94, Register 131; am 12/7/2006, Register 180; am 1/9/2014, Register 209)