All in the Family.

In the third and last unit of the Cure course, we studied the revolution that happened in Western Medicine with the discovery of vaccines, turning medicine to the direction of prevention. In Math, we studied equations, and connecting them with real-life scenarios.  The last action project was to take on the role of a very specific kind of doctor which would be yourself , your own "prevention doctor", empowering yourself to make healthy choices regarding nutrition and complementary approaches to leading a healthy life. We created a video to represent that. I talked about Diabetes because it does run in my family, I wanted to address how people can prevent it from happening to them. I really enjoyed this whole course. I loved learning about taking taking a different option on medicine and how there are so many different ways that you can cure yourself without going to the doctor in some cases. For our last field experience we had a guest speaker who taught us about plant medicine, she showed and taught us how to make Fire Cider, and Healing balm. Which are two alternative ways to treat yourself when you are sick or hurt. I learned so much throughout this course and also improved in math which I am proud of myself for that.

PAIN.

In Treatment, our second unit, we investigated the revolution that happened in Western Medicine with the discovery of penicillin, which helped treat a lot of diseases during WW2. We also focused on how antibiotics and other common medicines work and how they chemically react with our bodies. For the math part we practice balancing chemical equations, and quadratic equations and that helped us understand the processes better. For the Action Project we were challenged to create a medicine box, we had to pick OTC medication and Rx to help treat a pain that we researched. I thought the project was really cool, we made our own medicine box putting all the information on it. We has had to make a video of us demonstrating quadratic equations, the number that we used came from our box we measured each side in inches.

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Citations: 

"Advil Side Effects." www.drugs.com. N.P. 20 April, 2015. Web. 5 May, 2015.

"Natural Remedies. " www.natural-fertility-info.com. Hethir Rodriguez. 20 October, 2014. Web. 5 May, 2015. 

"Uterine Fibroids." www.mayoclinic.org. Mayo Clinic Staff. N.D. Web. 8 May, 2015.

No more Tonsils or Adenoids?

The title of the course is Cure, the course is divided into 3 units, each one representing a revolution in the history of western medicine: emergency, treatment and prevention. The first Unit was called "Emergency" which we learned about surgery as a primal method of healing in western medicine. Surgery lead us to an understanding of the different anatomic systems, organs and tissues. The purpose of our first Action Project was is to map a chosen surgery, by presenting the type of cells affected by the procedure and explaining the process of healing that takes place. The surgery that I picked was Tonsillectomy, the reasoning I chose this surgery was because I had this producer done on me when I was younger. I had both my Tonsils and Adenoids taken out. I wanted to learn more about the surgery, and how it was done. My experience wasn't that bad, I healed in 3 weeks, the pain was mild I was on a liquid diet and the only bad thing was I couldn't eat like a normal 8 year old. I really enjoyed this project, I learned a lot and I like how my prezi came together. 

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