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There are good news from England in the fight to preserve the freedom to prescribe herbal remedies. As a background, herbal practitioners have been fighting to obtain a derogation from the upcoming European Directive so that they would be able to prescribe unlicensed remedies. This derogation revolved around them being statutorily registered: we have now obtained this. The UK Secretary of State for Health has made an announcement today about regulation of herbal medicine practitioners. The issue of whether or not practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine should be statutorily regulated has been debated since the House of Lords Select Committee report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in 2000. The Health Professions Council (HPC) has now been asked to establish a statutory register for practitioners supplying unlicensed herbal medicines. The proposal is, following creation of this register, to make use of a derogation in European medicines le...

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I would like to expand on what I said about P-6 Neiguan last month. P-6 Neiguan is a complex point, rich in clinical applications. Descend Stomach-Qi P-6 is closely connected to the Stomach channel and, for this reason, it is a major point to make Stomach-Qi descend. For this reason, it treats vomiting, nausea, belching and acid reflux. In order to make Stomach-Qi descend, P-6 combines very well with Ren-13 Shangwan and ST-21 Liangmen. Notice that Ren-13 is better than Ren-12 at making Stomach-Qi descend because it treats specifically the upper part of the stomach. Descend Heart-Qi Besides making Stomach-Qi descend, P-6 also makes Heart-Qi descend. Interestingly, Heart-Qi not descending also causes nausea and vomiting; therefore, when we use P-6 for nausea and vomiting we are acting both on the Stomach and the Heart channel. How do we know whether nausea in a patient is due to rebellious Stomach-Qi or rebellious Heart-Qi? In two ways. Firstly, from the pulse: in case of rebellious Stom...