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This daily blog has been about the struggles of juggling motherhood with being a full-time student for the first eight months of its existence.  I still share some of my life now that I've graduated but I also share information each day on herbs that I've learned along this journey.   While my herbariums are listed for free membership, I provide four fields from them in my blog: Constituents (the active ingredients of the herbs), the therapeutic actions (Examples are expectorant and stimulant), indications (colds, skin rashes, emphysema, etc), and safety information. More information can be found in the herbariums but these are the most important educational fields.  I also share scientific studies to help educate people who think there are no studies showing herbs work.

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Semester3, Week 11, Day 6

7/23/2019

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It's been a day already!  Breakfast is done. Dishes are done.  I need to get diapers washing again. I can't wait for success in potty training with both of them.  LOL  I made great progress on my paper yesterday, sort of.  The more I read these studies, the more questions I have. In fact, I'm now throwing out a lot of studies I was planning to use because there are too many variables not taken into account during the study so there is no way to validate the accuracy of the results of the study.  There are literally hundreds of studies out there but they don't really say anything useful for someone investigating how NOT to contract the illness or how to survive it if the illness is contracted.  If you want to know how to set up quarantine, you're in luck!  I'm going to keep reading these studies, of course, to see if I can answer some of these questions and include them in my paper but this is ridiculous that they don't even appear to be looking at very obvious factors.

On to lavender!

Emmenagogues: Promotes menstrual flow and healthy menstrual function.  There are 3 types: warming helps with dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, anxiety, cramps and pain.  Cooling help calm excited, emotional, and irritable conditions. Tonic builds blood and promotes sexual function (Griffin, 1997, p. 9).

Rubefacients: Increase surface blood flow and red blood cell production. These help with arthritis, rheumatism, aches, and pains (Griffin, 1997,p. 11)

Spasmolytic is another way of saying antispasmodic.

Anxiolytic is another way of saying anti-anxiety or sedative.

Antidepressant just means it helps people deal with their depression.

Neuroprotective generally means it protects the cells of the nervous system, not just those of the brain.

Constituents: I literally can’t find the constituent I’m looking for but Ulbricht (2010) uses perillyl alcohol (POH) for cancer (p. 466). Chevallier (2016) says volatile oil (over 40 constituents, linalyl acetate, cineole, nerol, borneol) and flavonoids (p. 108). Heinerman (1996) says linalyle acetate and hydroxycoumarin (herniarin) (p. 299). Hoffman (2003) says volatile oil (linalyl acetate, linalool, lavandulyl acetate, borneol, limonene, caryophyllene); coumarins (umbelliferone, herniarin, coumarin); triterpenes (ursolic acid), flavonoids (luteolin) (p. 561).

Have a great day!
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