Hello everyone! This blog is a journal for my Medical Ethnobotany class at University of Hawaii at Manoa. I transfered this semester from South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington. I am an undergrad student, studying ethnobotany and I am very excited to be part of the program and part of this class. I have a passion for plants and particularly plant medicine, so this class is ideal for my interest. Before I get started I would like to give a bit of an introduction about the topics that are going to be covered.
Ethnobotany is the study of human's relations with plants. This class will be focusing on using plants as medicine as well as the process and ethics that come along with it. Medical ethnobotany can be described as: the identification and collection of plant species to treat health conditions. Just like all other forms of ethnobotany, many disciplines come in to play such as anthropology, history, geography, chemistry, and botany.
I Joined this class about 2 weeks late. I have recently been working hard to catch up on all of the readings and work with my newly assigned group on an ethnobotanical research problem. I have now mostly caught up and I will be posting my work for the last 3 weeks all at once. Now that the catch up work is done I will update the blog on a more regular basis, once every couple days or so. Enjoy!
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