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A Day in the Life of a Mom-Herbalism Student

This daily blog is about the struggles of juggling motherhood with being a full-time student.  I also share information each day on herbs that I've learned along this journey.  The herbs I am currently discussing are all things I received in my lab kits for class, meaning I get to actually work with them and pass on first-hand knowledge. 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.

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Semester 3, Week 8, Day 3

6/29/2019

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It has been a day already.  It took longer to cook breakfast because my son decided to play with the eggs and then he decided the floor needed to be decorated with cheese.  THEN my daughter was in the cheese on the floor and an ant came out of nowhere and bit her on the ass...  It got in her diaper.  There were NO other ants on the floor.  It was like this thing was waiting in the shadows for a victim and ran out to attack!  I need to get dishes done when I finish this but I figured I'd go ahead and get my post done since I have already written up some of these, quick copy-paste.  I did get my post for herbs done yesterday so I get 3 days to get my ebola assignment done instead of 2.  That works for me!  My daughter has already been on the counter twice...  I'm already exhausted.  My daughter finished her breakfast and asked for chocolate...  Since she NEVER cleans her plate, I decided she could have some.  She had fallen and was crying.  Chocolate makes everything better...

On to the therapeutic actions of passionflower.  There are over 400 species of passionflower, this is passiflora incarnata. Several have similar properties.

Hypnotic and tranquilizing are the same thing, just means relaxing.

Sedative is relaxing but could actually induce sleep.

Nervines: These calm and nourish the nervous system, promote mental clarity, and relieve spasms, pain and congestion. There are 2 types: warming helps with chronic issues, insomnia being a good example. Cooling helps with anger, hypertension, and migraines (Griffin, 1997, p. 10).

Anodyne just means pain relief.

Hypotensive means it lowers blood pressure.  Hoffman has a list of these herbs so here is the reference and I'll add a list later if I don't have one up yet (Hoffman, 2003, p. 516).

See, the actions today were pretty easy.  I'll look at the constituents list tomorrow, take out the ones I have talked about and talk about the ones I have not.  Time to do the dishes. Have a great day!

Constituents: Peterson has this herb listed as a nervine herb, anti-spasmodic (210-217). She mentions a whole list of flavonoids and alkaloids. Hoffman (2003) says alkaloids, (harmine, harman, harmol, harmaline, harmalol, passiflorine), flavonoids (apigenin, homoorientin, isovitexin, kaempferol, luteolin, orientin, quercetin, rutin, saponaretin, saponarin, vitexen) (p. 570).  Chevallier (2016) says flavonoids (apogenin), amino acids, cyanogenic glycosides (gyncardin), indole alkaloids (trace – they think there may be some in there but they aren’t sure…) (p. 119).
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    Mindy

    I am currently a student at American College of Healthcare Sciences earning my Masters of Science degree in Herbal Medicine. This blog is my journey of juggling mom-life with student life. My husband is a truck driver so I'm essentially a single mom all but 3 days a month. It's a challenge but we will get through this. I complete this degree on 18 December 2019.  I plan to write books and continue here on my blog after I complete school.

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