College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy
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The College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy, also known as the CPP, is a British professional organisation for herbalist
s. Phytotherapy
is a term frequently used as a synonym for medical herbalism. The herbalist Hein Zeylstra chose in 1991 to establish the CPP out of a desire to provide medical herbalism with a credible and rational basis through training and research as well as in practice.
Members of the CPP are required to have a recognised qualification in medical herbalism and conducts continuing professional development with its members in order to ensure that the practitioners are up to date with the latest developments in their field. They recognise the importance of protecting the public interest in this regard and have members in eleven countries, particularly in the Anglophone world.
They provide ongoing professional training for herbalists and other healthcare professionals, a register of members, an online resources library and professional indemnity insurance.
Herbalist
An herbalist is:#A person whose life is dedicated to the economic or medicinal uses of plants.#One skilled in the harvesting and collection of medicinal plants ....
s. Phytotherapy
Phytotherapy
Phytotherapy is the study of the use of extracts from natural origin as medicines or health-promoting agents.Traditional phytotherapy is often used as synonym for herbalism and regarded as "alternative medicine" by much of Western medicine, although effects of many substances found in plants have...
is a term frequently used as a synonym for medical herbalism. The herbalist Hein Zeylstra chose in 1991 to establish the CPP out of a desire to provide medical herbalism with a credible and rational basis through training and research as well as in practice.
Members of the CPP are required to have a recognised qualification in medical herbalism and conducts continuing professional development with its members in order to ensure that the practitioners are up to date with the latest developments in their field. They recognise the importance of protecting the public interest in this regard and have members in eleven countries, particularly in the Anglophone world.
They provide ongoing professional training for herbalists and other healthcare professionals, a register of members, an online resources library and professional indemnity insurance.
External links
- http://www.phytotherapists.org/
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1046699.ece