The International Academy of Botanical Medicine shall be responsible for establishing a uniform consistent scope of practice and content for the curriculum to be taught in any regional facility world wide that is to teach botanical medicine to students of any nation.

Further the department shall establish the guidelines for a consistent curriculum of botany and herbal/botanical medicine for each school to follow:

Botanical Medicine shall be understood to encompass all aspects of therapeutics in which the remedy used is of a natural / botanical source and shall include the following forms of Botanical Medicine:

Fresh Extracts 5: 1 Ratio

Solid Extracts 4: 1 Ratio

Fluid Extracts 1: 1 Ratio

Saturated Tinctures 1: 2 Ratio

Herbal Tinctures 1: 3 Ratio

1: 5 Ratio

1: 8 Ratio

1: 10 Ratio

1: 20 Ratio

Homeopathic Mother Tinctures 1:10 Ratio

These are remedies made with solvent extraction other than just water which by itself makes a remedy knows as an infusions or decoctions.

Tinctures may have as solvents, alcohol, water, vinegar and glycerine in any variation or combination.

Remedies utilizing glycerine as solvent are known as glycerites. All of the above remedies are considered to be botanical.

Another class of remedies are those made from the oils of plant material in any form. Oils are marketed in various dilutions from essential oils having the highest purity to fragrance oils that have been diluted 1: 10 with carrier oil.

The above remedies are considered to be botanicals.

Bach Flower remedies are a third class of botanical medicine and represent an established group of therapeutic compounds made from flowers quite ell established as to effectiveness over the last 50 years. In addition, other groups of remedies not part of the Bach Materia Medica shall also be considered Botanical's for the purpose of this document.

Flower remedies are considered to be botanicals.

For the sake of clarity and for the purpose of this document, plant materials that are made into remedies are as follows:

Bark Including: Stem Bark Root Bark Inner Bark

Bulbs

Corms

Exudates / Resins

Fecula

Flowers

Fruit

Herb The aerial parts of the plant

Juice of the plant

Leaves

Rhizomes

Seeds

Spores

Tubers

Wood Chips

The above mentioned raw materials may be:

Fresh Fresh Dried Dried

And in any of these states of freshness or dryness shall be considered botanical's.

Notwithstanding the above mentioned medical forms:

Any other form of remedy compounds or compiling that is not specifically mentioned in this document that has as a source of raw material the plant kingdom, shall for the purpose of this document be considered to be part of the jurisdiction of the department of botanical medicine.

Respectfully submitted this 25 th day of November 2005:

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Dr. Earle Sweet D.C. M.H., D.N.M.