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AHP Internship

August 1, 2018 By in Communication, Discernment, Inquisitiveness, Integrity, Internship, Mindfulness, Professional Knowledge, Research, Skills Tags:

For the Summer 2018 Trimester I conducted a 0.5 credit hour with American Herbal Pharmacopoeia.  Under the supervision of the AHP Executive Director Roy Upton I contributed to the upcoming monograph on Anemopsis Californica.  This monograph will serve a complete and critical review of the traditional and scientific literature regarding the efficacy and safety of yerba mansa.   I feel especially lucky to be working on a monograph with AHP because I feel that it is an organization conducting vitally important work for the field of herbal medicine.  My perspective is that there is a direct association between the work that Lloyd, Felter, Scudder and King etc were doing a century ago and the work that AHP is doing now.

Aside from the deliverables, the metrics associated with a quality internship program necessarily center around the opportunities it provides for students to develop the soft skills that will facilitate their transition to professional life.   This internship experience challenged me to continue developing competency in many of the soft skills articulated in as learning goals for the internship.   Four skills that I was able to identify significant self progress in are: Written communication skills, the MUIH value of discernment, critical thinking skills, and professionalism.

While the monograph is ultimately the intellectual property of AHP a small sample of the work I conducted for the internship can be exemplified by this chart of the ethnobotanical use of Anemopsis.

Communities

Reference

Internal Use

Colds

 
Tübatulabal ,
 Maricopa, Pima,
Diné, Luiseño and
  Chumash Pericú
   Chumash and
 southern Paiute

Larsen 1992; Wheeler-
Voegelin 1938; Wyman
and Harris 1979;
Dimayuga et al.;
Russell 1908; Stoffle
and Dobyns 1982;
1983; Timbrook 2007;
Train etal 1974

Dysentery

 
Yaqui and
 Tarumari

Boido 1894

Diuretic

Diné

 
Wyman and Harris 1979

Tuberculosis

Diné, Pima

 
Wyman and Harris
1979; Russell 1908

Gangrene

 
Yaqui and
 Tarumari

Boido 1894

General pain

 
Chumash and
southern Paiute,
    Kumeyaay

Russell 1908; Stoffle
and Dobyns 1982,
1983; Timbrook 2007;
Train et al. 1974;
(Wilken, 2012)

menstrual
   cramps

Costanoan, Ohlone

Bocek 1984

 
Blood purifier

Luiseño and
  Chumash

Gardner 1965; Jepson
1909; Kroeber et al.
1908; Sparkman 1908;
Train et al. 1974

Asthma

 
Luiseño and
Chumash Paiute

Gardner 1965; Jepson
1909; Kroeber et al.
1908; Sparkman 1908;
Train et al. 1974;
Rhode 2002

Indigestion

 
Chumash and
southern Paiute,
    Kumeyaay

Russell 1908; Stoffle
and Dobyns, 1982,
1983; Timbrook 2007;
Train et al 1974;
(Wilken, 2012)

Venereal
 disease

Tübatulabal ,
 Maricopa, Pima
   Chumash and
southern Paiute,
      Hopi

Larsen 1992; Wheeler-
Voegelin 1938;
(Sánchez, 1999)

Emetic

Papago, Pima

 
Castetter and
Underhill 1935;
Russell 1908

Diabetes

 
Tübatulabal ,
Maricopa, Pima

Larsen 1992; Wheeler-
Voegelin 1938

Malaria

 
Yaqui and
 Tarumari

Boido 1894

Topical Use

 
Wounds Bruises
and Sores

Luiseño and
Chumash Yaqui and
 Tarumari Pericú
 Costanoan Zuni,
 Pueblo, Navajo,
  Kumeyaay, Hopi

Gardner 1965; Jepson
1909; Kroeber et al.
1908; Sparkman 1908;
Train et al. 1974
Dimayuga et al.;
Bocek 1984; Curtin
1997; (Wilken, 2012);
(Sánchez, 1999)

Rheumatism

Paiute

 
Train et al., 1974;
Larsen 1992

Gargle

 
Zuni, Pueblo,
    Navajo

Curtin 1997

 

Anemopsis californica flickr photo by wallygrom shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license