Test 1 Definitions

Question 1

Botanical Medicine

Answer 1

Using plants and herbsto help cure or treat diseases

Question 2

Alternative Medicine

Answer 2

Used in place of conventional methods

Question 3

Complementary Methods

Answer 3

Used alongside conventional methods

Question 4

Integrative

Answer 4

Uses conventional and complementaty methods in treatments

Question 5

Naturopathic Medicine

Answer 5

complementary and alternative medicine that favors the use of herbs and plants in managing disease states.

Stresses on activating the body’s natural defenses to combat disease

Question 6

Phytochemicals

Answer 6

Chemicals from plants. Many of these chemicals have physiological or pharmacological effects on human systems

Question 7

How were plants selected to be useful in past?

Answer 7

They would go by trial and error, observing animals who ate that plant, and by the Doctrine of Signatures, which is observing signs and features of a plant to determine what they would be used for

Question 8

What do herbalist believe about these chemicals?

Answer 8

The whole plant has to be used in preparation, or it wont work in its full power.

Question 9

DSHEA

Answer 9

Passed by congress in 1994, allowed dietary supplements and herbals to be manufactured and bottled, and sold to public. Anyone could bottle and produce though, so rules were later put in place. In 2006, all supplements and herbals must be to pharmacutical company standards and do what it is claimed to do.

Question 10

Principles of Naturopathy

Answer 10

Fresh Air, Sunshine, Pure Water (Fruits and Vegetables or purified water)
Modalities dont treat disease, they stimulate the body’s differences

Question 11

Disease?

Answer 11

Only one is Toxemia, a build up of toxins in the body.
This is caused by negative emotions, which causes enervation (makes nervous system weaker) which affects the metabolism and digestive tract. The “diseases” we get are just symptoms of toxemia

Question 12

Stress

Answer 12

Shown that increased stress leads to higher cancer risk

Question 13

Homeopathy

Answer 13

“Like cures Like”

Give a herb in very, very dilute concentrations that will produce the symptom, to help fight and get rid of that symptom.

Question 14

Dilute?

Answer 14

The more the better in homeopathy. The energy of the substance is brought about and becomes stronger through shaking, and diluting it to as few molecules as possible, so the energy can do its work

Question 15

Hierarchy of Addrssing Symptoms

Answer 15

Fix the mental, then the emotions, then the physical. If the negative emotions and stress are there, toxemia can not be eliminated, and all work on the physical is for nothing