Threat to Herbalism affecting New Zealand

June 26, 2005

Societ. MedicalConspiracies@googlegroy of Natural Therapists & Researchers

Incorporated

28 Jellicoe St. Te Puke 3071 N.Z. Email: nat.opc

AK 642 111

Herbalism and Maori Rongoa Medicine under Threat

The Society of Natural Therapists and Researchers Inc. are in the

process of forming a New Zealand Association of Herbalists because we

are finding increasingly that the Allopathic Medical Profession are

trying to take over Herbalism with the impending attempted takeover of

the Trans Tasman Joint Therapeutic Agency.

The New Zealand Association of Medical Herbalists will require a

minimum of 3 years full-time training in Medical Sciences and Herbal

Medicine. To licence Herbalism under Medical Herbalism is totally

wrong. Why register Herbalism under Medicine which is most recent,

whereas Herbalism has been around for 5000 years?

The N.Z. Charter of Health Practioners Inc. has urged our support for

a campaign to stop the Trans Tasman Joint Therapeutic Agency. That

Agency is Codex driven, to lower the effectiveness of Natural Medicine

by reducing allowable doses and so is diverting public spending on

healthcare away from Natural and towards Allopathic Medication. The

Trans Tasman Agency if allowed by the New Zealand public would impose

an additional cost on every Natural Product of $30,000; being $5,000

upon application, $10,000 upon presentation and $15,000 upon testing.

The proposed Joint Agency would now also include Herbal and

Homeobotanical Medicine and Maori Rongoa Medicine and so would be

restrictive. It is designed to restrict the use of Natural Medicine as

has happened in other Overseas Countries. Please phone and write to

your Member of Parliament and help stop this over-regulation of our

freedom of health choice that was designed by the Pharmaceutical

Industry to control our spending on health care. Documents are

Don Paterson

Secretary S.N.T.R. Inc.

07 573 9403

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