News
24th October 2009
Petition the Prime Minister
If you would like to sign the petition to the Prime Minister asking him to intercede on our behalf to ensure properly trained and qualified practitioners are allowed to become "authorised persons" and continue the delivery of herbal medicine, deadline for the petition is 26th October 2009, click here
8th October 2009
Herbal Medicines under threat!
The UK Government is thinking about severely restricting the medicines that herbalists can provide. If this is allowed to happen the public could soon lose access to many herbal medicines which are currently available.
If you want to continue to have access to quality herbal care from herbalists then you can help.
Please read the following documents and write to your MP. Then consider responding to the on-line consultation document before the 2nd November.
Severe threat to patients’ herbal choices: a call to action!
The Consultation document is available here
Government questionnaire available here
3rd August 2009
Regulation of Herbal Practitioners
The Government moves to regulate practitioners of herbal medicine and acupuncture. The National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) is strongly in support of this. View the NIMH press release here (July 2009)
Herbal Medicine Week 2009
This year Western Herbal Medicine Week is from 20th to 27th June
The highlight of the week is to be a mass herbal walk on Midsummer’s Eve Tuesday 23rd June. Herbalists all over the country are being encouraged to lead herbal walks through parks, gardens and countryside, showing members of the public the incredible herbal diversity in even the smallest stretches of open space. The choice of date is deliberate, as in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare displayed his considerable knowledge of herbs and their uses.
More details can be found on the National Institute of Medical Herbalists web site.