BM -1 week 1

Question 1

Organoleptic

Answer 1

making an impression upon and organ : so getting to taste, touch, smell the plant

Question 2

What are the tastes - 6

Answer 2

sour, salty, bitter, sweet, astrigent, umami

Question 3

visual, 2

Answer 3

color and clarity

Question 4

Feel and texture, 3

Answer 4

slippery, drying and sticky

Question 5

what are the 4 directions of the herbal medicine wheel?

Answer 5

North - cold/depression earty, East- damp/relax miost, South - heat/excitement fire , West - Dry/atrophy air

Question 6

Where would cyanne fall on the wheel?

Answer 6

close to south with heat and under west to for dry

Question 7

doctrine of signatures

Answer 7

signifigance of form shape and action, form follows function, used as learning tool to remember things.

Question 8

what two level does the doctrine of signatures work on?

Answer 8

intiution and imagination

Question 9

what is on the the unified botanical genius paradigm

Answer 9

homeopathy essence, signatures, organoleptics and chemical actions with core personality in the middle

Question 10

Flavonoid glycosides are for what?

Answer 10

anti inflammatory and antioxident, so good for anti ageing

Question 11

What is an adaptogen?

Answer 11

produces a non specific response: often a normalizing influence on physiology in either direction, increases resistance against multiple stressors, physical, chemical etc

Question 12

what is a tonic, what do they do?

Answer 12

Boost energy reserves, promote health in a non specific manner.

Question 13

Are adaptogens tonics and tonics adaptogens

Answer 13

nope - all adaptogens are tonics, but all tonics are not adaptogens, some probably don’t work so much on the endocrine system

Question 14

what is the new alternative suggested word for adaptogen?

Answer 14

resistogen,