9-30-11 Friday

Swedish
Our quiz will be on the reading for the last week:
Hands Heal ch. 4
Tappen ch. 6 and ch. 7
Ethics of Touch ch. 2
She said the quiz will be over the main points.

We added some petrissage variations and the front of leg and upper pectoral regions too.

Anatomy
We had our test and that was it.

Survey of CAM

Due next week is the 5 local practitioners project plus the speaker synopsis.
Watched a humourous video on the town of Allopathy and their skidmarks disease.
The notes/slide were emailed to us so please see those!

Guest Speaker: Kris Hill - Clinical Herbalist and owner of Hill Botanical

A lot on the history of herbal Medicine

Plants = medicine
In forms of Tea, Capsules, Tinctures (both Singles and Formulas), Bath, Aroma Therapy.

There seriously a lot on the history, if you want all of my notes on it let me know, but the overview:
Evidence in Iraq about 60-80 thousand years about of people buried with flowers.
As civilization grew people moved and shared information and were influenced.
Albert Magnus (1200-1280 CE) and Paracelsus (1493-1541 CE) are big names.
The USA Pharmacy Soda Fountains (1870) - Coca Cola and 7up.

Why herbal medicine is useful in massage: we both use oils from the same plants, aromatic qualities
Kris Hill formulates mixtures for MT or clients.