Organoleptic macroanalysis skills are fun and also informative

Organoleptic testing is the art of using sight, taste, smell to determine the quality of a herbal product. When you assess the quality, you can also assess the therapeutic action.

In the Energetics courses I speak a lot about the importance of observing, tasting and feeling the sensation of the energetics and their tangible nature. Is it drying or heating for example. Energetics is a good indication of quality and plant chemistry, not a vibrational medicine - thats a very different thing.

A drying or astringent taste indicates the presence of tannins. If they are bluish coloured or also sour, then they will be flavonoids. Indicates a chelating effect or antioxidant action, or both. If you want to learn more, join the courses! I am one of the few people who has linked all of the energetics to plant chemistry groups and I present my findings in this manner in the Energetics courses I run.

In the meantime, practice practice practice observing the herbs. Taste, smell, feel and see the herbs and practice determining the quality. It takes years to perfect this art, so start now. Observe not judge though - be prepared to get it wrong and practice the 'sensation' rather than decide the outcome

This new research article is super interesting as this is what I talk about a lot in the Western Energetics course.

Funnily enough, the icons shown are similar to ones I use to describe the energetics in the courses I run.....and years ago (2002) I rewrote the Eagle Pharmaceuticals product manual and when I did, I created a code for the therapeutic use of the products using icons! This was then adopted by other product companies and is still used today in their manuals.

Here is some information from the article - I have added the link to the full article for you to read.

"Ancient Botanical Medicine Was Driven By Taste and Smell, Study Finds....

We found chemosensation to be strongly predictive of therapeutic use: botanical drugs with high therapeutic versatility have simple yet intense tastes and flavours, and 21 of 22 chemosensory qualities predicted at least one therapeutic use. In addition to the common notion of bitter tasting medicines, we also found starchy, musky, sweet, and soapy drugs associated with versatility. In ancient Greece and Rome, illness was thought to arise from imbalance in bodily fluids or humours, yet our study suggests that uses of drugs were based on observed physiological effects that are often consistent with modern understanding of chemesthesis and taste receptor pharmacology.

The link between taste and medicine was realized by the ancient Greek philosophers and physicians. To make sense out of clinical symptoms, healing powers and medicine, ancient Greek physicians conceptualized the so-called humoral theory… The then known four basic taste sensations got integrated into this equilibrium model and associated with the four humors: phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and black bile by Galen in the 2nd century AD,” said Marco Leonti from the University of Cagliari who co-authored the research."

Check out more using this info - https://elifesciences.org/articles/90070