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The Pill

So you've tried some sensational herbal pill which carried fantastic claims and one or a number of certain scenarios happened:

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Herbal medicine overtly endangered in UK, and blindly in South Africa

The last time that herbal medicine was placed in jeopardy in the UK was in 1994 when the Government's plans to "harmonise" the UK Medicines Act of 1968 with the main European Medicines Directive (then called Directive 65/65 EEC). This, in effect, threatened all UK herbalists and their suppliers with being driven out of business on January 1st 1995 when the new EU regulations came into force.

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From April 2011, a new EU law will mean that even fully qualified Chinese medicine practitioners will lose access to the majority of the herbs and medicines on which they rely.

You need 2 minutes of your time to try to stop injustice in the UK.  (South Africans, the same is trying to come your way, in just a slightly different form.  Do not be blinded by authority.)

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Compliance

Apart from the methodology of a great medicine like the Chinese one, right compliance with treatment is essential for successful outcome.  Conversely, wrong compliance is the one biggest cause of failed treatment.

To ease Chinese medicine patients into wholesome self help,  I have added a new Cateogory to this Clinic blog:  "Treatment compliance".  This is to create a stage on which patients, who have stumbled upon this matchless theatre of Chinese medicine, may open up to their living, changing, progressing drama awarely:

• To understand how our overt expectations of the drama may differ from the actual script inside us
• How the very drama that will be our true katharsis  may unfold itself in ways we didn't anticipate or demand at the outset
• How, to be the living protagonist we want to be,  we may have to abandon  our judging selves to the part and engage with our own, organic drama

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The fallacy

"This formula worked for me last time I had a cold so it should be good for this one".

This is a common misconception.  Why?

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