This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Allow cancer sufferer to access & use proven herbal medicine by changing the law
The law prevents herbalists and suppliers of herbs from making any reference to the effectiveness of herbal treatments for cancer. Even qualified medical herbalist are specifically precluded from saying there are herbs which are effective against cancer - despite significant research.
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I am a qualified medical herbalist and have effectively treated friends & family with both ovarian and breast cancer with herbs while they were undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy. All had substantial improvements attributable to the herbs. The herbs also have the clinical research evidence to say they are directly effective against cancer and safe to use but qualified herbalists cannot make this claim directly. Many lives are being lost in the most horrendous of cancer treatments.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
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Ensuring that medicines meet applicable standards of safety, quality and efficacy is the responsibility of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, which is operationally independent of the Government or Parliament.
As a result it is not possible for the Government or Parliament to take the action you have requested.
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