Summary of Lesson #1

1. Seek out someone with whom you might study herbalism, plant identification, or might otherwise assist you in your study of herbal medicine:

• Christy, your my person!

2. Make: Garlic oil, Coriander seed tea, curry, cumin/wheat flour/water for topical pain relief, take 1T caster oil, fennel seed tea, juniper berry tea

3. Match Humour with person:

• Sanguine-heat/moist, ruddy complexion, cheerful, confident, optimistic


• Melancholic-cold/dry, pale, sensitive, visionary


• Phlegmatic-cold/moist, dull, slow, not sensitive


• Choleric-heat/dry, fiery temperament, easy to anger

4. Origin of the word "dormitory"

• ?

5. What is Theriacum?

• anti-poison that was first created by the Greeks, modified, by Romans, to 70 toxic ingredients

6. Author of De Meteria Medica?

• Dioscorides, a physician in Nero's army

7. Properties of these herbs from 4 different books:

• Valerian


• Scullcap


• Red Clover


• Calendula

8. Who were the most important herbal doctors of the late Roman period?

9. Author of De Simplicibus?

• Galen

10. Origin of the word Officinalis?

• The large storerooms called officinas

11. What was the position of the early Christian church regarding medicine and healing?

• The early church forbade the use of rational medicines, relying upon the divine healing of Christ

12. Name the 2 most devastating diseases of the Middle Ages.

• Leprosy and Bubonic Plague

13. Author of Canon of Medicine?

• Avicenna, an Arab physician in the 900's

14. Why is Culpepper so highly regarded by the English and the history of herbalism?

• He translated medical documents from Latin to empower the people with the knowledge of self-treatment

15. What is the Doctrine of Signatures?

• the idea that there is a relationship between the plant's appearance and the condition it treats

16. Make a batch of Composition Powder.

• 2lbs bayberry root bark


• 1lb hemlock inner bark


• 1lb ginger


• 2oz cayenne


• 2oz clove

17. Founder of Eclectic Medicine?

• Wooster Beach (1794-1868)

18. What is the Pen T'sao?

• It is a Chinese herbal document/book

19. Author of the Pen T'sao Kan Mu?

• Li Shi Zhen (1518-1593)

20. What is the earliest known document of classical Chinese medicine?

• Shen Nong Pen T'sao Jing (Emperor Shen Nong's Classic Herbal)

21. What is the name of the great classic Ayurveda?