The Association of Natural Medicine was established in 1983 by a group of friends and colleagues with a common interest in and enthusiasm for complementary medicine. Together they aimed to promote interest in the use of natural medicine through education, by offering quality courses, supporting registered practitioners and supplying a forum for debate.

The ANM later achieved charity status and is conscious of its responsibility to the public, its members and the standing of all complementary therapies.

We act as an umbrella organisation, giving support and education in a broad range of therapies and maintaining a register of practitioners in whom we are confident to make referrals to the general public.

Promoting Natural Medicine through professional training, public education, and practitioner support

Our aims are best summarised as:

• Bringing together practitioners, students and interested individuals from the various disciplines of natural medicine who wish to support the Association and its aims.
• Promoting interest in natural medicine with the public at large and providing information and instruction for their benefit.
• Fostering and encouraging research and development in the areas covered by natural medicine.
• Providing qualifying courses for practitioners in natural medicine.
• Sponsoring an insurance scheme, open to all qualified practitioners registered with the ANM, to ensure that patients and clients are adequately protected against injury, accident and malpractice.
• Speaking with as loud a voice as possible on behalf of all members in establishing natural medicine in its rightful place in the field of healing.
• Fostering understanding and co-operation with members of medical profession sympathetic to natural medicine and developing such sympathies wherever possible.
• Providing courses, workshops, seminars and attending exhibitions to further these aims and to publish and circulate a quarterly journal to all members and associates.