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Welcome to the URHP

HawberriesThe Unified Register of Herbal Practitioners (URHP) is a leading international register of professional herbal practitioners.

URHP members utilise the modern, scientific understanding of herbs, as well as drawing on the vast knowledge of traditional herbal usage, used worldwide for thousands of years.

This means that, in undertaking treatment with a URHP Herbal Practitioner, you are getting the best of both worlds, ancient and modern, and thus the best possible treatment. It is this appreciation of old and new that makes the URHP unique as a register. [ Learn more ]

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URHP/AMH ANNUAL COMBINED CONFERENCE AND AGM

4pm Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd to 4pm Sunday 24th June 2012
The Purley Chase Centre, Purley Chase Lane,
Mancetter, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 2RQ 

Guest speaker Matthew Wood, internationally renowned herbalist, teacher and author who will be offering 2 sessions on Saturday June 24th. 

Session 1: The Six Tissue States: Energetics of Physiomedicalism 
The Physiomedicalists started with three energetic qualities (Thomson, Curtis: excitation, relaxation, contraction), added a fourth (Cook: depression), and eventually rounded the system out to six (Thurston: added atrophy, torpor or toxicity). This beautiful system works simply and efficiently with elemental energetics (hot, cold, etc.), traditional herbal actions (astringent, alterative, stimulant, etc.), tastes (sour, sweet, etc.), and broad pharmacological classes (anti-oxidants, volatile oils, mucilage, etc.) A ramble through major plant medicines and their energetics. Hand-outs.

Session 2: The Four Qualities and the Four Degrees: 'Galen's Art of Physick' 
This is not a discussion of the Greek constitutional system, or the four temperaments, but of the herbal system. Greek herbal energetic system are based on simple action (warming, cooling, opening, closing, thickening, thinning, etc.) The theory will be briefly compared to the physiomedical nergetics, for cross-referencing. Then, a discussion of many of the Galen's thirty five simples (the four greater hot seeds, the four lesser hot seeds, the four greater cold seeds, the four lesser cold seeds, the five emollients, the five greater opening roots, the five lesser opening roots, and the four cordial flowers). Hand-outs.

There will also be social time and workshops on the Friday night and Sunday morning as well as the AGM. Full details will be available in April 2012 as we are reserving space for statutory regulation and other topics which will include speakers and discussions. 

Conference fee payable in cash on arrival. Accommodation fees to be paid in advance.
URHP: £30 (£20 already paid in fees)
AMH: £50. Non members £60

Becoming a Member

Our herbal practitioners have trained extensively in order to meet the high standards the URHP requires for membership. We accept qualifications that are approved by the European Herbal Practitioners Association and are in line with the Regulatory Working Group on Herbal Medicine as a minimum standard.

If you would like to become a member of the URHP, please click here for more information.