Dispensary
Avicenna’s in-house dispensary offers a unique, unrivalled service to both patients and practitioners. Our Chinese herbs are sourced directly by us from reputable sources and individual herbal prescriptions are tailor-made on the premises by our fully qualified Chinese pharmacists. Herbs can be provided dried or decocted (ready-to-drink) and we also offer customised ointments, creams and pills.
Herbs can usually be collected from the clinic within 2-3 hours of your appointment or we can dispatch them to you by courier in the UK or abroad. We also offer a bespoke dispensing service to qualified outside practitioners.
We specialise in pharmacognosy and have extensive experience in verifying the quality and identity of raw herbs. We offer a consultation service to outside practitioners with a view to helping to improve the quality of raw materials on sale in the West and to eradicate the use of substitutes.
Our Chinese Herbs
We have a carefully sourced permanent stock of over 450 herbs from approved suppliers in China. We source the highest quality herbs available and refuse inferior stock. We do not sell pills of uncertain origin, nor stock endangered or prohibited species.
Our Decoction service
We are amongst the very few clinics in Europe to offer a decoction service for our herbal prescriptions. In 2003 we introduced cutting edge machinery as used in Chinese hospitals, which enables us to prepare individual herbal prescriptions in liquid form that come in sealed, easy-to-use sachets. This high pressure and temperature-controlled decoction method extracts much higher proportions of the active ingredients and makes taking herbs more effective, convenient and palatable as well as ensuring consistent quality of the product.
Our Skincare Products
The Skin Clinic offers the Avicenna skincare range that has been exclusively developed over 20 years by our specialist dermatologist. This includes handmade products for a variety of conditions plus a range of washes, poultices, powders, ointments and creams for registered practitioners to prescribe for their patients.
These products are made from highly concentrated, natural and pure ingredients and herbal powders. Our skin creams do not contain any artificial colours or preservatives, parabens, petrochemical substances or steroids.
Regulation and Accreditation
The Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine (RCHM) was set up in 1987 to regulate the practice of Chinese Herbal Medicine in the UK and is working towards statutory self-regulation for herbal medicine in Britain.
Avicenna is an RCHM approved supplier and therefore conforms to all government set standards.
