Big Pharma Scores Big Win: Medicinal Herbs Will Disappear in EU

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http://www.gaia-health.com/articles301/000301-big-pharma-scores-big-win-medicinal-herbs-disappear-eu.shtml

As of 1 April 2011—less than eight months from now—virtually all medicinal herbs will become illegal in the European Union. The approach in the United States is a bit different, but it's having the same devastating effect.

Is there an herbalist in the house? We need to have seeds for all the medicinal plants that we will need. Can somebody come up with a comprehensive list? It doesn't have to go into exhaustive explaination of each plant's uses. We can look that up online later. Right now we just need a comprehensive list of what we should have growing for us. I know of four off the top of my head: Cloves, Black Walnut, Wormwood, and Pumpkin (for the seeds). These are the most powerful anti-parasitic/anti-helminthics in the herbal arsenal.

[Ryder]

Interesting stuff. Right now most doctors advise their patients that they should only take natural medicines that the doctor approves of. Growing your own can take a lot of area and time. Some sources say to look around you for what grows near you. If you have lived in a area for more than a few years you probably have herbs growing that would be good for what ails you. Out side of the closest restaurant to us is a nice patch of "Malva" which can cure gangreen. Stock up on tintures which have a great shelf life. Start a garden no matter how small and plant perrenial herbs. Cilantro can get heavy metals out of your body and will grow quite well in oneof those table top hydroponic gardens.

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How do you use the Malva? Do you take it internally, or do you apply it externally to the site of the gangrene infection?

[Tom Wagner]

WARNING


I am not the right person to address the ban on medicinal herb preparations in Europe, except to say that we all need to grow our own medicine in case of an emergency.  I have been not been able to 'own' land, therefore I tend to grow what I can during one growing season and grab the seed and run.  I would encourage anyone serious about food and medical security when it come to plants......to get even more serious and learn to grow and propagate all kinds of plants and gradually learn how to use plants as medicine.  It will be a life long learning experience and how these things are passed down to the next generation may be counting on you.

I put together a number of links, but the first link should be read first. My father-in-law's mother was an herbalist of sorts and we spent many an hour going through her herbal gardens.  She gave me her library of herbal medicine books just before she died, wanting me to have them.  But raising three young children at the time and working two jobs and running a seed catalog with my breeding work in fruits and vegetables, I had little time to pursue reproducing her herb garden.  At the time nearly thirty years ago...growing herbal medicine plants was akin to being a fruitcake....sigh!


http://www.unitedplantsavers.org/UpS_At_Risk_List.html

For the benefit of the plant communities, wild animals, harvesters, farmers, consumers, manufacturers, retailers and practitioners, we offer this list of wild medicinal plants which we feel are currently most sensitive to the impact of human activities. Our intent is to assure the increasing abundance of the medicinal plants which are currently in decline due to expanding popularity and shrinking habitat and range. UpS is not asking for a moratorium on the use of these herbs. Rather, we are initiating programs designed to preserve these important wild medicinal plants.

“At-Risk” List

•   American Ginseng - Panax quinquefolius
•   Black Cohosh - Actaea  racemosa (Cimicifuga)
•   Bloodroot - Sanguinaria canadensis
•   Blue Cohosh - Caulophyllum thalictroides
•   Echinacea - Echinacea spp.
•   Eyebright - Euphrasia spp.
•   False Unicorn Root - Chamaelirium luteum
Goldenseal - Hydrastis canadensis
•   Lady’s Slipper Orchid - Cypripedium spp.
•   Lomatium - Lomatium dissectum
•   Osha - Ligusticum porteri, L. spp.
•   Peyote - Lophophora williamsii
•   Slippery Elm - Ulmus rubra
•   Sundew - Drosera spp.
•   Trillium, Beth Root -Trillium spp.
•   True Unicorn - Aletris farinosa
•   Venus’ Fly Trap - Dionaea muscipula
•   Virginina Snakeroot - Aristolochia serpentaria
•   Wild Yam - Dioscorea villosa, D. spp.

“To-Watch” List

•   Arnica - Arnica spp.
•   Butterfly Weed - Asclepias tuberosa
•   Cascara Sagrada - Frangula purshiana (Rhamnus)
•   Chaparro - Casatela emoryi
•   Elephant Tree - Bursera microphylla
•   Gentian - Gentiana spp.
•   Goldthread - Coptis spp.
•   Kava Kava - Piper methysticum (Hawaii only)
•   Lobelia - Lobelia spp.
•   Maidenhair Fern - Adiantum pendatum
•   Mayapple - Podophyllum peltatum
•   Oregon Grape - Mahonia spp.
•   Partridge Berry - Mitchella repens
•   Pink Root - Spigelia marilandica
•   Pipsissewa - Chimaphila umbellata
•   Spikenard - Aralia racemosa, A. californica
•   Stone Root - Collinsonia canadensis
•   Stream Orchid - Epipactis gigantea
•   Turkey Corn - Dicentra canadensis
•   White Sage - Salvia apiana
•   Wild Indigo - Baptisia tinctoria
•   Yerba Mansa - Anemopsis californica

•   https://www.gardenmedicinals.com/store/catalog/index.php?cPath=29
•   This has a list of 148 Jeff McCormack’s herbs. I met Jeff back in '83 and talked with him not long after he sold his Southern Seed Exposure business and started his newer venture of garden medicinals

Herbs (Basils)
Herbs (A-C)
Herbs (D-K)
Herbs (L-Q)
Herbs (R-Z)

The following links have some important data to become familiar with...

http://www.sandymushherbs.com
http://www.liveandfeel.com has a great list to choose from…how to use etc.
http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart.php?gc=c101&gclid=CJvlpoGZ4qQCFSdtgwodD1lRLQ
http://www.altnature.com/gallery/
http://www.horizonherbs.com/ftproot/HHCatalogFall2010.pdf

I probably should add that growing herbs for medicinal preparations cannot be a one person venture by him or herself.  You have to have a shared experience with the preparations and one must use the herbs to save them.

Tom Wagner

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Exactly the kind of response I was hoping for. Thanks Tom.

[Lady Lilya]

I have friends who specialize in the growth, harvest, preparation, storage, and prescribing of herbs.  At some point in life, I might get trained in that too.  There are correspondence courses you can take. 

[Dame]

Really useful post. 

I need to dig up a bunch of dandylion and move them somewhere more convenient and organized.  Maybe take a pail and just collect 3 or 4 gallons of roots this fall.  Not sure I can add this to my list.

I have been wondering also if it is too late to put in garlic.  Beeherders mention of still intending to plant fall garlic has me reconsidering.  Perhaps the elevation there equals the latitude here.

[Tom Wagner]

Regarding the logic of European control of herbalist methodologies.


http://ehtpa.eu/pdf/home/letter_mps_summer_2010.pdf

Why is statutory regulation vital?
Firstly it is important to ensure that those practising herbal medicine are properly qualified.
Today, most practitioners are educated to degree level with training that includes a significant
amount of orthodox medical training. However, there is currently no regulation whatsoever anyone,
whether trained or not, can call themselves a herbalist and thus gain access to powerful herbal medicines.
This is clearly not in the public interest.
A second important reason for statutory regulation is that if it fails to go ahead there will be a
loss of a wide range of herbal medicines currently supplied by practitioners to their patients.
Full implementation of the new European Traditional Herbal Medicine Directive in April
2011 will see the end of practitioners prescribing herbal medicines made by manufacturers
and herbal suppliers for prescription to individual patients. This includes all finished products
such as medicinal herbal pills, tablets, capsules, dried herb mixtures and medicinal herbal
ointments made up for individual patients by third-party suppliers. Also under threat are
third-party herbal prescription services that supply individualised herbal prescriptions
(including those comprising tinctures and dried herbs) to named patients at the practitioner’s
request. Over the past 40 years this mode of supply has become an essential part of herbal
practice in the UK and many practitioners are totally reliant on such services. All that will
remain will be herbal medicines prepared by practitioners from their own premises. Thus
without statutory regulation, from April 2011, many patients will be unable to obtain
their usual medicines. The loss of this facility will put many practitioners and several of
their suppliers out of business. This will further damage the UK economy and swell
unemployment during the current economic downturn.

What is statutory regulation?

Statutory regulation exists to protect the public against the risk of poor practice. It works by setting agreed standards of practice and competence by registering those who are competent to practise and restricting the use of specified protected titles to those who are registered.

Hmmm..... Statutory.....The phrase statutory  control is a term used in some legal jurisdictions to describe herbal activities where one participant is below the age of reason required to legally consent to the behavior.  So let me rephrase this... 

STATUTORY GOVERNMENTAL RAPE EXISTS TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE RISK OF THE POOR PRACTICE OF HERBALISTS.  IT WORKS BY SETTING AGREED STANDARDS OF PRACTICE AND COMPETENCE BY REGISTERING THOSE WHO ARE COMPETENT TO PRACTICE RAPE AND THE RESTRICTING THE USE OF SPECIFIED PROTECTED TITLES TO THOSE WHO ARE REGISTERED.

All that will remain will be herbal medicines prepared by practitioners from their own premises. HOW TRUE!

TO PREMISE OR NOT TO PREMISE ....anything else will lead to your demise.

[Lady Lilya]

Statutory means that the type of law is a statute.  A statute is a law created by a regulatory agency, rather than a legislative body. 

[Dame]

In a Common Law country such as UK or Canada; Statutory Law is law created by an act of parliment or a legislature, and then passed by the House of Lords or Senate, and finally brought into practice when signed by the Head of State.  Regulations may be included in the statute, however, are generally left to the beaurocrats and or local elected authorities (by-laws) to develop and are within the context of the statute.

Non-statutary law (common law here) is built on legal precedence as developed by the courts over the years and by long standing practice.

Statutory law generally supercedes common law where there is a statute in place. 

My favorite government function is the statutory review committie's ability to repeal obsolete or redundent statutes.