Guest guest Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 All this time, we have been wrestling with how our profession would be affected by chiros and others doing acupuncture. Meanwhile, our practice of herbology has basically been enshrined in law as " services that [do not] require medical training and credentials. " So while we debate who practice acupuncture, apparently anyone can practice chinese herbal medicine. there is a catch though. You can't use the term chinese herbal medicine or you violate AB 1943 passed last year. Now that's semantics. No controls exist for the terms oriental herbology or oriental medicine. Or east asian med or herbology. This is an easy end run. It is ludicrous to say TCM requires training and ayurveda does not. This is about needles. Chinese Herbs FAX: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 I worked in an herb shop that did most of its business with what I called " cowboy herbalists " . It seems there is a great tradition out there of people mixing their own " brews " , experimenting with different herbs and using them on themselves, family and pets. I really enjoyed these people, very American, in the best folk sense of the word. I hope we are talking about the right for anyone to buy and use any (reasonably safe) herb and not taking that away from people. As for unlicensed people prescribing in a health food store I think that is a different matter. doug , wrote: > All this time, we have been wrestling with how our profession would be > affected by chiros and others doing acupuncture. Meanwhile, our > practice of herbology has basically been enshrined in law as " services > that [do not] require medical training and credentials. " So while we > debate who practice acupuncture, apparently anyone can practice chinese > herbal medicine. there is a catch though. You can't use the term > chinese herbal medicine or you violate AB 1943 passed last year. Now > that's semantics. No controls exist for the terms oriental herbology > or oriental medicine. Or east asian med or herbology. This is an easy > end run. It is ludicrous to say TCM requires training and ayurveda > does not. This is about needles. > > > Chinese Herbs > > > FAX: > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 It seems to me the reason for passing such a ruling would be to allow the health food people to talk to the costumers without being thrown in jail. I think this is a good idea. The public should be able to get some basic understanding of what the products do. Most people won't educate themselves well enough to know why they might take one sup over another and the health food stores know the more knowledgeable the staff the more customers they get. I don't think we will have to worry about people going to the health food store interrupting our income flow. I don't think people will equate the same level of care they would get from one of us to what they could get in the store. On the other hand,,,,, people may think that if they go to a Chiro or MD, they would get the same level of acupuncture care. That to me is much more dangerous to both the patient and our income. Chris In a message dated 4/29/2004 9:27:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, writes: All this time, we have been wrestling with how our profession would be affected by chiros and others doing acupuncture. Meanwhile, our practice of herbology has basically been enshrined in law as " services that [do not] require medical training and credentials. " So while we debate who practice acupuncture, apparently anyone can practice chinese herbal medicine. there is a catch though. You can't use the term chinese herbal medicine or you violate AB 1943 passed last year. Now that's semantics. No controls exist for the terms oriental herbology or oriental medicine. Or east asian med or herbology. This is an easy end run. It is ludicrous to say TCM requires training and ayurveda does not. This is about needles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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