Test Four Flashcards
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What are some things about good witches
Mid wives
Knew local plants
Everyone went to them
What are some things about the bad witches
Used drugs on themselves
Poisoned people
What is a night flight
Put medicine on broom insert them insed themselves
Chemicals make them feel like their flying but they just fell asleep
When did the medicinal plants come about
Middle Ages
Usually oral traditions
What is doctrine of signature
Rule of signature appearance found throughout history of world common everywhere
Why did people think there were medicinal plants
God made everything
Give people clues
Look at the anatomy of plants and see gods clue
Used this way till 1500
What is the purple fox glove
Gave people a cheap high
Why were people given purple fox glove
Swelling
Congestive heart failure
Poked skin but it didn’t come back out
Who found the purple fox glove
William withering
What were some things about William
Went to medical school school and hated botany
Liked Helen and she liked botany
Writes paper in 1776
Becomes doc
Who was the local witch
Mrs Hutton and she had the recipient to cure dropsy
What is digitalas
The chemical in fox glow plant
What did van gough have that he needed digitalis for
Epilepsy
Effect sight because he took so much
Where did they get medicine for pain
Willow
Why was the willow used for pain
It grows everywhere
American Indians found it
Needed a lot of water
Was the asprin till 1900
Who was Edward stone
Reverend
He thought if the swamp was making you sick then God was putting the clue in the swamp
Taste the leaves
Takes to church and make them feel better
What was salatic
Today’s compound W
Was rough on the body
Where’d asprin come for
Bayer
When Germany lost ww1 had to give us the patan for asprin
What are the three properties of asprin
Analgesic-pain relief
Autinflamitory- swelling
Antigynet- fever reduce
Who was John vane
English researcher
Avoided heart attacks because he took asprin everyday
What did dr rye do
Rye syndrome
He found that when kids took regular asprin after chicken pox or flu certain percent died
What did fever tree treat
Malaria
What is malaria
Get fever chills
Airburn
One to two million die per year
What awesome old cures for malaria
Cut open skill and let demons out
Amputations