If you live in the EU, you might be interested in signing this petition (please note you can do so anonymously).
The Government wish to further regulate Herbalists by bringing them under state control, protecting both the function and title of a Herbalist. Alongside this regulation they wish to change the Herbal Medicine laws again to prevent anyone, other than a state regulated herbalist (or possibly other health professional), from prescribing herbs.
This, coupled with a previous change to our herbal medicine laws, will take Herbal Medicine away from the people, with state regulated Herbalists and pharmaceutical companies claiming Herbal Medicine as their own.
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/26781.html
Please pass this link and information onto as many people in the EU (patients, family, friends, practioners, MP’s, MEP’s, media) as possible.
Thank you, Chris.
1 Comment
JohnnySensible (31 comments)
June 3, 2009 at 5:06 amThese are old battles.
Herbalism is too old to be fully controlled in this way – we can always walk along the hedgerows & pick herbs for ourselves & our friends – no-one will arrest us.
…..there are however many quack / charlatan herbalists exploiting naive people – exposing them would be a very good thing.
Thalidomide turned me away from allopathic medicine & onto Jethro Kloss – read the article – SIXTIES CULTURE AND THE RESURGENCE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
by Peter Morrell – http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/articles/pm_60.htm
More from Peter Morrell – HIPPIES, ECO-ACTIVISTS & SIXTIES CULTURE
IN RELATION TO THE ROMANTIC TRADITION &
THE HISTORY OF IDEAS – http://homeoint.org/morrell/misc/hippies.htm
Extract –
+ I am not saying that everything the Hippies did was practical, down-to-earth and useful, however! For example, the much-lampooned organic diets and macrobiotic vegetarianism involved chewing a rather bland mixture of brown rice, chick peas and undercooked pulses and vegetables, with the total conviction that you were chewing your way towards perfect health and some higher meditative state! And that doing this would change the world! +
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I love that line! – it is exactly what I enjoyed for lunch today in Soland – http://www.happycow.net/reviews.php?id=17076