Europe to Ban Hundreds of Herbal Remedies
December 30th, 2010Via: Independent:
Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law.
With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for decades.
From 1 May 2011, traditional herbal medicinal products must be licensed or prescribed by a registered herbal practitioner to comply with an EU directive passed in 2004. The directive was introduced in response to rising concern over adverse effects caused by herbal medicines.
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According to the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), which represents herbal practitioners, not a single product used in traditional Chinese medicine or ayurvedic medicine has been licensed. In Europe, around 200 products from 27 plant species have been licensed but there are 300 plant species in use in the UK alone.
Time to harmonize…
A close friend of mine almost died on prescriptions following a major op, but was treated just in time by ‘inherited knowledge’ – his new wife was wise to remove the prescriptions (more thsn 10 at once – as if that alone isn’t bad enough) and treated with *berries*. Person alive and well a decade later, the prescriptions were offloaded later, unused. Doctor didn’t know.
Wikipedia as always, provides acknowledgement without conviction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus#Medicinal_use
Another friend in the medical profession has confirmed to me that younger trainees are now taught to correlate symptoms with drugs. It’s nothing more than a big game of Mah-Jong with chemicals. Doctors’ wisdom is diminishing rapidly.
It’s wise to learn about what grows, before nobody else knows…