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This is the first topic for this course. Before this, I did not know anything about complementary and alternative medicine. I always called it modern medicine and traditional medicine. After this class, I get to know more about what is the difference between complementary medicine and alternative medicine. There is also other term that I have just learned which is integrative medicine and allopathic medicine. In this lecture, Dr asked us what do we do once when we lay on the bed? For me, I did not sleep instantly. I always scrolling my phone looking what is happening to the world today until I did not realise that it is late midnight already. And the next morning I wake up quite tired and less focus. Dr said the exact same situation as mine if we sleep late. After that, I realise that I need to change my habit and try to sleep early and as soon as I lay on the bed with an empty mind. I also learned the importance of alternative medicine which is to maintain the balance between body, mind and spirit. I was really excited to know more about complementary and alternative medicine so I am looking forward for every Monday and Wednesday class.

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I love this chapter because it is related with my life. Months ago, my mom bought me a diffuser with essential oils from Young Living brand. I was confused because my mom never like this kind of thing before so maybe she discovered something interesting about essential oils somewhere on Facebook so she decided to try it. I literally did not know anything about essential oils. In fact, I just know that essential oils exist when my bought it for me. There are a lot of essential oils that comes in the package. The only ones that I already know the scent are lavender, lemon and peppermint. All other essential oils are new to me so I only use those three everyday. I did not know their function rather than making my room smell nice until I learned from this lecture. I have just known that essential oils have many benefits which it can heal a person's mind, body and soul in a natural way and that is true because my mind became calm everytime I use the diffuser. Now I know why my mom bought it for me. After this lecture, I tried the other unfamiliar name essential oils. I tried to do more research of these essential oils. It turns out that we can mix two or more essential oils to get certain function. From what I found, to have a peaceful sleep, I must add 2 drops of lavender and 2 drops of frankincense. This is so function to me since I am the type of person that is hard to sleep but after I use this method, I fall asleep easier. Other essential oils mix that I like is 3 drops of lemon, 3 drops of peppermint and 1 drop of frankincense. I like to use this mix when I was doing my assignments because it help me to become more focus. All in all, I am very grateful to my mom because she bought me this to help healing my inner soul and this shows how much she loves me!

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I found this chapter interesting because how the herbs give a lot of benefits. For every system in the human body, there are herbs that can give treat that system problems. For example, Allium sativum act as an antiseptic or antibiotics which help the lungs to resist infection. Other reason that I choose this lecture is because it is a day after my family and I discovered that my brother has a kidney failure. He was got covid days before and we all thought it was because of covid that he felt weak and have a loss of appetite . But that morning, when we want to have sahur, he was like shivering and fell to the floor. So, we took him to the hospital. Then, the doctor told us that the toxins level in his body has reach the dangerous level. We were so shocked because it was not what we expected. My mom cried so much, my dad tried to remain calm and I tried to hold my tears. My brother then went through dialysis to clear away all the toxins. Until now, he has not recovered and still go to dialysis every week. And when Dr taught this topic, I remember my brother because in the topic, there is herbs that can treat urinary system problems. In the lecture note, there isn't example of herbs that treat kidney failure but I believe there is other herbs that treat this disease and I have to do more research and also consult professionals whether the herb is truly suitable for treating kidney failure.

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In this lecture, I have learn something new that relates diet-based therapy with curing diseases. Dr Sujatha showed us a study that ketogenic diet can help to cure epilepsy. None of us know how it happen including me. I am confused because ketogenic diet is a diet that mainly focused on having high fat, low carbohydrate and adequate protein diet, so I did not see a connection between ketogenic diet and epilepsy. Dr Sujatha explained to us that epilepsy occur because of high brain activity which results in the release of neurotransmitter such as glutamate in a big amount. When this happen, there is other neurotransmitter called GABA (which I also heard it for the first time) will block the impulse between nerve cells of the brain, but there is only a little amount of GABA to inhibit glutamate. This happen because too much intake of sugar or glucose can increase the brain activity and the release of glutamate. So, by doing ketogenic diet, it can help reduce glutamate and also enhance GABA. This is a very interesting finding and it definitely caught my attention because how the whole situation works. I have never tried diet in my 21 years of living since I think I am healthy enough, but this is not true because I will never know what is happening inside my body that it does not show any sign outside of the body. So, I decided to try this ketogenic diet during semester break later.

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On this date, I had my first physical class other than lab class. I am so excited because when I was walking to the class, I could feel that I am actually a real university student because I only stayed at college or my home when it is online class so it does not feel like I am a university student, but it hits me that day. For the physical class, our lecture was Dr Sam. This is also my first time meeting him although he had taught me since last semester. We learn the topic of chiropractor which I have heard of it before, but Dr explained in details how chiropractor works. I found out that the sound of the spine cracking is not the spine itself but it is the sound created by nitrogen gas rushing in to fill the partial vacuum created when the joints are slightly separated. Now I know that what happen too when I crack my fingers. Dr also showed us a video in which a chiropractor shows how treat their patients. It look quite scary because of the cracking sound especially when the chiropractor crack it at the neck. But I think I am interested to try someday in the future when I have a back pain or neck pain.