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With the UK looking to enforce stricter regulation on the sale and marketing of vapes to address question marks over their safety and help protect young people, there has been a rise in herbal vapes. ...

Consumers in the UK are increasingly turning to “natural” remedies. Consumers consider them to be healthier and safer than synthetic or standard medicines. Euromonitor’s latest research on the herbal ...

People have used herbs for thousands of years, relying on powdered supplements, teas, tinctures, and skin creams to help treat everything from skin rashes to mild depression. Herbal supplements, also ...

There is a big difference between using a scientifically proven herbal medicine for a specific condition and consulting a traditional herbalist, and thus receiving herbal therapy via this route. No ...

AN Oxford herbalist says her business has been saved after the Government announ- ced plans to register UK practitioners for the first time. Louanne Richards feared her Raleigh Park Clinic, in Botley, ...

Shops and clinics selling herbal and Chinese medicine are to be regulated for the first time. Health Secretary Andy Burnham has indicated he will tighten the law in an attempt to protect the public ...