This is an opportunity to have a short consultation with me to explore your health issues, for me to do any relevant examinations, make suggestions for herbs and other advice depending on your individual needs and generally discuss with you what herbal medicine might be able to offer you.

Call in at the shop or ring Anna on  881 6399 to make an appointment. £15 for a half hour consultation. (If you decide to then have a full initial consultation this will be taken of the price.)

Tune in to here me being interviewed by Ursula Pabisch about being a herbalist and all things herbal.

I will be doing one of my remedy demonstrations at Chorlton Wholefoods on Beech road on Saturday 26th November 2-4pm.

There is a Farmers Market and Craft Fair on at the Horse & Jockey just round the corner on Chorlton Green that day. So a nice lunch…bit of shopping….watch how to make your own cough syrup…good day out?

Contact Tim 0161 226 5538 or Chorlton Wholefoods 881 6399

Citrus BioFlavonoids are a powerful defense against oxidative stress

An apple a day could keep strokes away!

How to make Herbal Remedies:

In this Talk and Demonstration I will be introducing the basic concepts of Herbal Home Remedies. I will also be demonstrating how to make Nettle & Rosemary Oil and Thyme & Onion Cough Syrup.

Thursday 18^th August 2011

Time:   7.30pm       Entrance:    £6

Venue: Unitarian Church, Bank Street, Rossendale
BB4 7QY

As of this month I am now a contributor to the magazine, Spirit & Destiny. You can find my answers to readers health problems on their health page. This month I give tips to help deal with prickly heat.

To find out more about the magazine go to www.spiritanddestiny.co.uk.

22nd May 2011 – How to make Herbal Remedies – Talk and Demonstration – Sale Yoga Circle

Tim will be talking about how to make and demonstrating various herbal remedies  at the Sale Yoga Circle. Time: 7.30 pm Venue: Raglan Road Community Centre, Washway Road, Sale, M33 4AN Entrance:£6 Contact: 0161 904 0588 or 0161 969 5986

Since the new year I have had a wonderful new office right in the middle of Manchester. It is on the 3 floor of Milton Hall at 244 Deansgate, M3 4BG. I have so far mainly been using it for my counselling practice but am hoping that patients will want to come and see me there also.

I am still seeing people in Whalley Range, have no plans to move from there at the moment, but thought it would be good to show you my lovely new space.

So if you are interested in having consultations here give me ring, 0161 226 5538 or email me tim@greenmanherbalist.co.uk to enquire.

Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, announced to Parliament Yesterday that herbal medicine practitioners will be regulated from April 2012. The four UK health departments have agreed that the Health Professions Council (HPC) should hold a statutory register of practitioners who supply unlicensed herbal medicines to people to enable the supply of herbal medicines to continue after 30 April 2011. This will ensure that practitioners have met specified registration standards. Practitioner regulation will be underpinned by medicines legislation which will provide further safeguards to protect public health.

This means that even though many herbs will not be available over the counter, they will still be available as part of the individualised herbal medicines we prescribe to our patients. It will also provide the public with a profession that they know they can trust. Every herbalist on the register will have achieved a certain level of training and clinical experience; be expected to maintain and develop their knowledge through continuing professional development; and be accountable for their practice.

We will also have the status of authorised healthcare professional. This will mean that we have the right to practice on a much firmer footing than we do now. Safeguarding  that herbal medicine that has been practised on these islands for millennia will continue into the future.

However I guess we have to wait and see how this new legislation may impact on the way we practice. I imagine there will be some more debate ahead!