Sentence examples for herbal from inspiring English sources

However, herbal practitioners don't need a licence to supply medicines that they create on their own premises following one-to-one consultations, as long as they don't contain banned substances.

So, on the plus side, over-the-counter herbal medicines in the UK are now safe and available in a fixed dose.

Herbal medicines are used by about a quarter of adults in the UK, the market is worth at least £485m, and they have a powerful advocate in Prince Charles.

Justin Stebbing, professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College, London, says that many people turn to herbal medicine and complementary therapies when they feel shortchanged by conventional medicine.

One of the most repeated claims is that because the products are herbal they have no side-effects.

Even herbal medicines and herbal supplements used wrongly can kill".

Its own leader makes that clear: "The importance of these papers is not whether they reveal the prince's controversial (or not) views on the European Union directive on herbal medicines.

The relationship between Charles and the prime minister was so close that Blair even asked Charles directly what he wanted him to do about encouraging the use of herbal medicines in the UK, which some scientists believe do not work.

Since 2011, products have to be registered with the Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency MHRAandand granted a traditional herbal registration (THR) before going on sale.

An analysis of 17 randomised controlled trials into the use of herbal preparations in asthma (Chinese and Ayuverdic medicine) found a significant improvement in more than half of the trials.

But concerns over safety, standardisation, interactions with other drugs, as well as extravagant claims and lack of evidence for efficacy have all led to attempts to regulate herbal medicine and its practitioners.