Description
Improve your understanding of herbs and their active constituents. Explore how they work and how the body responds. Learn the basic phytochemistry of volatile oils, polysaccharides, alkaloids, simple phenols, tannins, antioxidant polyphenols, and glycosides. This overview of herbal consituents will be taught in simple and friendly terminology. Topics will be presented from a framework of organoleptic assessment, phytochemical structure recognition, and commonality of therapeutic activities. Information presented can be utilized to inform formulation practice relevant to solvencies. This can be an eye-opening introduction to herbalism or it can be a revealing tool of comprehension for established herbalists.