CA scope

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in CA law for acu scope of practice, L.Ac. are given the right to use

herbs to promote, maintain and restore health. We are not given the

right to use herbs to treat illness or symptoms. to do so is probably

a technical violation of the medical practice act which forbids

treating illnesses or symptoms in any way unless explicitly granted to

a licensee. We have not been granted that explicit right. The acu law

also says that nothing in his law will be construed to restrict others

from prescribing the same supplements. Under CA's health freedom act

of 2002, lay herbalists are allowed to do the same exact thing we are

allowed to do. as long as they do not represent themselves as doctors,

they can legally represent themselves as maintaining, restoring and

promoting health.

 

Arguably, we may be even more restricted than lay herbalists. Since we

are licensed, we cannot exceed our scope. but one who is not licensed

has no scope. they only have to adhere to the provisions of the health

freedom act. no provision of our health freedom act prevents a lay

herbalist from overtly treating illness. While this is not true of all

health freedom acts and definitely not true under common law, it does

seem to be the strict reading here in CA. We already do not control

this domain, though we successfully banned naturopaths from doing it.

Even though far more naturopaths are serious herbalists than L.Ac. The

trend in this country is towards healthcare freedom acts, not

restrictive licensing. We cannot write a law that will restrict lay

herbalists without first overturning the healthcare freedom act. that

will not happen Our governor is a libertarian. I can guess where he

stands on all this.

 

 

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