Save Our Herbs; the Campaign for the Protection of Herbal Medicine
chris caton | 23.09.2009 10:13 | Culture | Globalisation | Health | World
Without your support our traditional herbal medicines could become obsolete, inaccessible and your freedom of choice taken from you.
Save Our Herbs
The Campaign for the Protection of Herbal Medicine
A new campaign group has formed to oppose changes to UK Medicine laws and proposals for the Government to regulate herbalists.
Cropwatch, The National Health Federation – UK, International Register of Consultant Herbalist and Homeopaths (IRCH), Unani Tibb (Mohsin Institute), Alliance of Registered Homeopaths (ARH), Independent and Individual herbalists Philip Evans, Jennifer Wharam and Chris Caton, have formed an Alliance ‘Save Our Herbs; the Campaign for the Protection of Herbal Medicine’ www.saveourherbs.org.uk
We urge everyone, worldwide to take a look at our website, sign our petition, respond to the DH recent consultation document
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_103567 , write to their MP’s, join our supporter’s forum and spread the word!
Your Traditional Herbal Medicines Need You.
Without your support our traditional herbal medicines could become obsolete, inaccessible and your freedom of choice taken from you.
Chris Caton
Traditional Western Herbalist
herbalist.c.caton@btinternet.com
The Campaign for the Protection of Herbal Medicine
A new campaign group has formed to oppose changes to UK Medicine laws and proposals for the Government to regulate herbalists.
Cropwatch, The National Health Federation – UK, International Register of Consultant Herbalist and Homeopaths (IRCH), Unani Tibb (Mohsin Institute), Alliance of Registered Homeopaths (ARH), Independent and Individual herbalists Philip Evans, Jennifer Wharam and Chris Caton, have formed an Alliance ‘Save Our Herbs; the Campaign for the Protection of Herbal Medicine’ www.saveourherbs.org.uk
We urge everyone, worldwide to take a look at our website, sign our petition, respond to the DH recent consultation document
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Your Traditional Herbal Medicines Need You.
Without your support our traditional herbal medicines could become obsolete, inaccessible and your freedom of choice taken from you.
Chris Caton
Traditional Western Herbalist
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chris caton
e-mail:
contactus@saveourherbs.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.saveourherbs.org.uk
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Woo
23.09.2009 16:12
Tim Vanhoof
I've heard about this...
23.09.2009 17:49
It was mentioned to me. I wasn't sure what I thought. then my sister told me that Holland and Barrett have signs up saying that things like echinacea are being banned. Check out the video on Google videos on Codex by Ian R Crane (his is a better video than the one by the woman from NANP in my opinion) and see what you think - keep an open mind... even if you don't believe everything that's being said, at least think that it could be or some of it could be possible!
I'm not even going to comment on the above comment about the NHS and "real doctors". All I will say is that a lot of the conventional medicines that people use these days have come about from looking at herbal and traditional methods used by tribes for hundreds, thousands of years and then re-made with synthetics. Again, this is mentioned in Ian R Crane's talk.
I don't think I'll spend my time fighting for "real doctors" - they're good when they're stitching people back up and doing surgery... but when they're pumping people full of side-effect-inducing, carcinogenic, inaccurately-animal-tested drugs (4th biggest killer in the UK is side-effects from animal-tested drugs!), well, I don't support that!
I'll stick with my ginger and garlic and herbal (homemade) teas... until the WTO / EU / UK government decide to make those illegal too!
Emma
are they
23.09.2009 19:15
thats crazy
Max
Codex and save our herbs
24.09.2009 02:48
Codex whilst awful and needing protest against, will not affect Medical Herbs. It will affect the herbs we use as food and of course to add the ridiculous situation, herbs that are used as medicines are also used as foods.
So who decides if a herb is a medicine, a food or a poison? The MHRA, a Government body, funded largely by the pharmaceutical companies and set up to regulate the pharmceutical drugs.
The EU directive on traditional herbal medicines was enacted into UK law in 2005 and requires all herbal medicines sold in shops to have a very expensive license by 2011. The MHRA decide which products will be granted a license. Thousands of traditional herbal medicines are likely to be illegal by 2011 due to the expense of licensing, reducing the publics choice and accessibility and replaced by products, often not traditional preparations, being classed as herbal medicines produced by large companies, especially pharamceutical multinational companies.
Chris
chris
Homepage:
http://www.saveourherbs.org.uk
Grow your own.
24.09.2009 14:09
NP
yawn
25.09.2009 11:36
It's a rather sad state of affairs, tho with its increasing lurch towards being an "alternative culture" free-for-all, hardly a surprising one...
anonymous
NHS should pay large herbal medicinal cooperatives rather than patented ripoffs
26.09.2009 19:43
Is there some kind of clinical assesment that can be used for food & herbs we know are safe_ healing as they have been for thousands of years as opposed to manmade chemicals used by bigger pharma companies that need testing clinically???
Patenting manmade copies of natural drugs,nanotech drugs that need computer simulated testing for decades & vivisecting are definetely bad for science & everyone
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