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july 13, 2017 03:08pm

BULGARIA - WORLD REFLEXOLOGY WEEK

World Reflexology Awareness Week runs from 18 - 24 September 2017. During this week I'll be offering reduced-price taster sessions. These will be 30 minute sessions in either face or foot reflexology and will be in Skalsko in Dryanovo Municipality, Bulgaria. For further information or to book a session, please email liz@patcholeherherbs.co.uk.

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

may 17, 2017 08:39pm

Article on Medical Herbalism in Spring Edition of Exmoor Magazine

http://www.patcholeherbs.co.uk/may2017article.pdf

This article is produced by kind permission of Exmoor Magazine.
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Posted By: liz.lillicrap

march 03, 2017 02:51pm

New fees for 2017

From 1 March fees will be:-
First consultation - adult £45.00
First consultation - 0 - 16 years £25.00
Follow-up consultation - adult £22.00
Follow-up consultation - 0 - 16 years £15.00
Tinctures per 100 ml £8.00
Reflexology fees remain the same.
Due to BACS payments sometimes taking 1 - 2 weeks after receipt of consultation and medicine, I will in future have to request part payment in advance.

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

october 31, 2016 12:16pm

TELEPHONE NUMBER

The landline number has now reverted to the original one shown on website, leaflets etc. That is: 01271 882179

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

october 27, 2016 10:49pm

Updated contact details

Due to complications with BT landline and internet we now have another landline number. This may be temporary but for the moment it is 01271 889083.

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

may 31, 2016 05:41pm

REVISION TO WEBSITE

Please note that the cost of a Reflexology session is £30.00 - the price of £27.00 on the website is out of date by 3 or 4 years!

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

march 23, 2016 05:47pm

TEMPORARY TELEPHONE NUMBER

First of all - apologies to those of you who have not been able to contact me on my landline. We now have a temporary landline number - 01271 882018 - which will be in use until the old landline number is reinstated.

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

september 12, 2015 02:50pm

Herb Walks

I am trying to get an idea of who would be interested in a walk looking at and identifying medicinal herbs and their uses - both in North Devon and in the Dryanovo area of Bulgaria. This would be for 2016. If you have any thoughts on this please email me on liz@patcholeherbs.co.uk.

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

april 09, 2015 02:11pm

REGULATION OF HERBALISTS

Government Report fails millions of herbal medicine patients and practitioners!
A report concerning the regulation of herbalists published in the dying days of the last parliament represents a total U-turn by the government and a betrayal of the millions of people who consult herbal practitioners.
• In 2014 the government convened yet another Expert Working Group to consider the statutory regulation of herbalists to ensure herbal practice meets the highest standards.
• There have already been three previous formal committees that recommended the statutory regulation of herbalists to provide a legal basis for practice and safeguards for the public.
• There have been two UK wide Dept of Health public consultations about this both of which recorded overwhelming public support for herbal statutory regulation.
• In 2011 the Secretary of State for Health announced that the statutory regulation of herbalists would go ahead.
• Now the government has done a complete U-turn publishing a new report on herbal regulation that has recommended this should not happen.
• The majority of the Expert Group convened to advise the government on this matter has written to the Health Minister to say they do not agree with this U-turn but their views are being ignored. The Expert Group was not shown a draft of the Report before publication despite assurances that the Group would be fully consulted.
• Voluntary regulation is no substitute for statutory regulation; it cannot assure public choice and public safety as substandard practitioners cannot be struck off.
• The report suggests that herbal medicines can be recategorised as foods. If this happens many herbal medicines will no longer be legally available.
• The report fails to recognise robust existing processes and academic standards established by a number of responsible UK herbal voluntary registers.
• The report makes no provision to replace a off –site supply of herbal medicines to practitioners to take account of recent changes in EU medicines law. Without this route of supply, practitioners without dispensing facilities will be forced to give up practice and their patients will lose access to herbal treatment on which they rely. The report betrays earlier proposals that would have corrected this in the UK.
• The report claims that there is insufficient research to justify statutory regulation and published a ‘randomly selected’ number of research reviews never shown to the Expert Group. Exactly the same measure applied to dentistry recently demonstrated that “the overall quality of evidence can be regarded as low or nonexistent for most of the dental procedures assessed”. The yardstick used in the report is clearly unfit for purpose. There are many thousands of scientific papers underpinning the therapeutic value of herbal medicines which is why WHO is calling on all national health systems to integrate traditional (herbal) medicine into medical practice.

Please ask your constituency candidates if they support the statutory regulation of the herbalists. Please consider only voting for candidates who support herbal statutory regulation!

Thank you for your help. For your interest, our full response to the report on herbal regulation and the report itself can be accessed on http://ehtpa.eu/.

Posted By: liz.lillicrap

february 19, 2015 03:11pm

CLEANING PLASTIC BOTTLES

We often visit one of my Bulgarian teachers, Ivanka, an elderly lady who lives in the summer months in a very small hamlet at the end of a track. She has water from a spring and a little further away is a well so when we visit we take her supplies of drinking water. On one occasion we had no more large water containers for the next visit and all she had was one rather greenish plastic water bottle. So, she picked a stalk or two of stinging nettle, put them in the bottle with a little water, swished it around a bit and, amazingly, the bottle was clean.

Posted By: liz.lillicrap