URHP Announcements Feed Unified Register of Herbal Practitioners - Announcements http://www.urhp.com/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:00:12 +0000 URHP/AMH ANNUAL COMBINED CONFERENCE AND AGM http://www.urhp.com/ http://www.urhp.com/ 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

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]]> Herbal History Research Network Study Day – South and West Region http://www.urhp.com/ http://www.urhp.com/ Saturday 10th March 2012, 11 am-3 pm
Quaker Meeting House, 1 Whiteheads Lane, Bradford-on-Avon BA15 1JU 

http://bradfordonavonquakers.weebly.com/   for map and directions.

The aim of this day is to bring together current and interested researchers in herbal history to report on progress in current projects and share ideas and problems. Our theme for the day will be about communicating herbal knowledge in the past. The cost is £10 and kept deliberately low to enable research students to participate although others are most welcome. As this cost is low, please bring your own sandwich lunch! We will arrange for hot water, tea or coffee to be made available. 

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