If the availability of professional Medical Herbalism is a concern, then your support and assistance with a campaign to prevent the government announcing a U-turn on its 2011 promise to bring in statutory regulation (SR) of herbalists is needed. This may have serious implications both for UK herbal practitioners and for everyone’s access to effective and safe herbal medicine. For more information and to support […]
What’s different about Medical Herbalists?
What makes a Medical Herbalist distinctive? What’s their approach to treating people? Nadine McBay asks Medical Herbalist Catriona Gibson about training and the future of Medical Herbalism.
What is herbal medicine?
What is herbal medicine? Medical Herbalist Catriona Gibson tells Nadine McBay some of the basic principles of prescribing herbs for an individual.
What can I expect when I see a herbalist?
Medical Herbalist Catriona Gibson tells Nadine McBay what to expect when you come to see a herbalist for the first time.
Why come to see a Medical Herbalist?
Medical Herbalist Catriona Gibson practises at Woodland Herbs and sees people who are experiencing a broad range of conditions, issues and ailments. Here she speaks with Nadine McBay about why people come to see a Medical Herbalist.
Professional Herbal Regulation
This year the government announced that statutory regulation of herbalists shoudl take place during 2012. this is great news and will ensure that the public will continue to have access to a very wide range of herbs, through a qualified medical herbalist. Here at glasgow-herbalist.co.uk all of our herbalists will satisfy the proposed requirements for statutory regulation and means that our clients will continue to […]
Threat to Herbalist Professionals
The European Traditional Herbal Medicine Directive will be fully implemented in April 2011. From this time it will only be possible to buy medicinal herbs that are prepackaged, limiting the sale of some herbal products. It is forseen that this will also limit the use of herbs by herbal practitioners. Herbalists often have herbal preparations prepared specifically for each patient they see by others (called […]