Now where did I come across this link? I spend so much time voyaging around the internet, noting articles and ideas to come back to later, that I can rarely remember the original linkage. However, this one was in my 'to investigate further' box, so here goes. The …
Alternative/complementary therapies
Things are Looking up in Europe
The long saga of the banning of many traditional herbs by Brussels (see this post, and this post and acres of material on line) has always smelt bad. The pharmaceutical industry have had it all so much their own way that there just had to have been some sort of collusion. Well, …
Herbs, Allotments, Chard and Asparagus
Few people can have failed to be aware of the impending, and now implemented, ban of the sale of hundreds of herbs used by herbalists, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and Ayurvedic practitioners, amongst many others. A workaround theoretically allows consumers to …
Proposed EU Herbal Regulation Built on a Fallacy
A lengthy article on the Alliance for Natural Health site urging us all to keep up the good fight against the risible (if they were not also so threatening) proposed EU restrictions on the sale of herbal medicines, includes an astonishing piece by Chris Dhaenens of the European …
Preventative and Curative Medicines
I returned last night from the British Society of Ecological Medicine's excellent conference on vaccination and preventative medical interventions (of which nore anon) feeling rather smug that I had not, for almost as long as I could remember, made use of any of the drug based …