Herb assignment:

Choose a medicinal herb (for our purposes, any plant used medicinally) to learn more about.This would be some portion of a plant that is purported to better the health of the human body.Write a 2-4 page double spaced paper that answers the following:

• What is the history of the medicinal use of the herb?
  • Has the plant been used by native or aboriginal peoples?
  • Has it been used for pre-modern medicine (1600-1900)?
• Has there been any scientific research on the claims of the herb?
  • Find actual scientific studies from journal articles
    • NOT reports on websites
  • Minimally you should have two scientific studies
    • Can either support or not support its use
• What are the potential dangers of the herb?
  • Dangerous side-effects?
  • Lack of efficacy?
  • Interactions with other drugs?
• Knowing what you do after this research, would you yourself take this herb if your health warranted it?
• Use the search technique you used last semester and try to find actual scientific sources (journal articles, scientific books or, very sparingly, scientific web sites).
  • Avoid Wikipedia and other Encyclopedias, as well as sites that sell herbal products!
  • Cite in Author-date CSE style