Andrew Flower, PhD
Registered Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioner and Co-founder of Soothe
Andrew Flower has been practising acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine since 1992. He completed his PhD at the University of Southampton exploring the role of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of endometriosis, and has published 27 peer-reviewed papers including two Cochrane systematic reviews. He is a Past President of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, co-ordinated an EU project on clinical trial guidelines for Chinese medicine, and held a 5-year NIHR Post Doctoral Fellowship investigating Chinese herbs for recurrent urinary tract infections. Andrew co-founded Soothe to combine his clinical expertise with modern evidence-based research, making personalised herbal medicine accessible to more people.
Qualifications
- PhDUniversity of Southampton
- RCHM
- NIHR Post Doctoral FellowshipNational Institute for Health Research
Roles
- SootheCo-founder
- Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine (RCHM)Past President
- White Crane Academy of CHMFounder Member
- University of SouthamptonResearch Fellow
Research Publications (26)
- The RUTI trial: A feasibility study exploring Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of recurrent urinary tract infectionsJournal of ethnopharmacology, 2019View on PubMed
- Uva-ursi extract and ibuprofen as alternative treatments for uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women (ATAFUTI): a factorial randomized trialClinical microbiology and infection, 2019View on PubMed
- Uva-ursi extract and ibuprofen as alternative treatments of adult female urinary tract infection (ATAFUTI): study protocol for a randomised controlled trialTrials, 2017View on PubMed
- Andrographis paniculata (Chuan Xin Lian) for symptomatic relief of acute respiratory tract infections in adults and children: A systematic review and meta-analysisPloS one, 2017View on PubMed
- Standardised versus individualised multiherb Chinese herbal medicine for oligomenorrhoea and amenorrhoea in polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomised feasibility and pilot study in the UKBMJ open, 2017View on PubMed
- Standardised Chinese herbal treatment delivered by GPs compared with individualised treatment administered by practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine for women with recurrent urinary tract infections (RUTI): study protocol for a randomised controlled trialTrials, 2016View on PubMed
- Chinese herbal medicine for treating recurrent urinary tract infections in womenThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2015View on PubMed
- Developing clinical practice guidelines for Chinese herbal treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome: A mixed-methods modified Delphi studyComplementary therapies in medicine, 2015View on PubMed
- The challenges of treating women with recurrent urinary tract infections in primary care: a qualitative study of GPs' experiences of conventional management and their attitudes towards possible herbal optionsPrimary health care research & development, 2015View on PubMed
- What's past is prologue: Chinese medicine and the treatment of recurrent urinary tract infectionsJournal of ethnopharmacology, 2015View on PubMed
- How women manage recurrent urinary tract infections: an analysis of postings on a popular web forumBMC family practice, 2014View on PubMed
- Herbal drugs and public choiceBMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2014View on PubMed
- Effectiveness guidance document (EGD) for Chinese medicine trials: a consensus documentTrials, 2014View on PubMed
- Can Chinese herbal medicine improve outcomes of in vitro fertilization? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsPloS one, 2013View on PubMed
- The RCP should support the statutory regulation of herbal practitionersClinical medicine (London, England), 2013View on PubMed
- Guidelines for randomised controlled trials investigating Chinese herbal medicineJournal of ethnopharmacology, 2012View on PubMed
- Chinese herbal medicine for endometriosisThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2012View on PubMed
- Comparison of effectiveness and safety between granules and decoction of Chinese herbal medicine: a systematic review of randomized clinical trialsJournal of ethnopharmacology, 2012View on PubMed
- A feasibility study exploring the role of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of endometriosisJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2011View on PubMed
- Combining rigour with relevance: a novel methodology for testing Chinese herbal medicineJournal of ethnopharmacology, 2011View on PubMed
- Oral Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) as an adjuvant treatment during chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer: A systematic reviewLung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2010View on PubMed
- The context and meaning of placebos for complementary medicineForschende Komplementarmedizin (2006), 2009View on PubMed
- The meaning of evidence: can practitioners be researchers?Forschende Komplementarmedizin (2006), 2009View on PubMed
- Chinese herbal medicine for endometriosisThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2009View on PubMed
- Unique aspects of herbal whole system researchExplore (New York, N.Y.), 2009View on PubMed
- Seeking an oracle: using the Delphi process to develop practice guidelines for the treatment of endometriosis with Chinese herbal medicineJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2007View on PubMed
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