Science 10 - Chapter 1 Flashcards
What can trembling aspen trees do?
You can rub the white power on the tree to create sunscreen.
What can cattails help with?
It can help with burns, feminine hygiene products sucks as tampons and pads, and can help with skin irritation.
What can stinging nettle be used for?
The roots are high in protein and minerals, they are edible.
How can plantain help with?
You can crush up the leaves and put it on cute to use as a disinfectant.
Creeping juniper can be use as.
The berrys can be used as birth control, (DO NOT try at home) You can turn it into tea to help with back pain.
What type of vitamin dose Rose hips contain?
Vitamin-C
Where did Indigenous people find the medicine they needed to treat almates?
They found them on the land.
Is the chemical in the plants all of the plant, or some of it?
Only found in parts of the plant.
How are natural medicines different from modern medicines that you can buy at the store?
Natural medicine is harder to fine, and also might effect an individual person differently then others.
What are some benefits of using natural plant medicines?
When medicine is made in the lab they put synthetic chemicals to copy the same effect that other medicine. Medicine from plants are all natural and are less likely to cause harms.
Why are some reason pharmacist are not using original medicine from indigenous culture?
Some of the medicine indigenous people used might be harder to find, or costs more to produce.
What are alkali metals?
any of the elements lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and francium, occupying Group IA (1) of the periodic table. They are very reactive, electropositive, monovalent metals forming strongly alkaline hydroxides.
What is an anion?
a negatively charged ion, i.e. one that would be attracted to the anode in electrolysis.
