Rule six – it is not worth boasting about victories! How to remember the formulas of simple phenols and their derivatives? You should already know the formulas of basic phenolic compounds from your organic chemistry course. Let’s recall! Phenol is a benzene ring with one –OH group. If there are two –OH groups…
The second rule – the reward awaits the hero. How to remember the formulas of iridoids? The main thing you should know about iridoids is that all of them necessarily contain a pyranose ring (remember glucose!), but partially dehydrated (that is, with one double bond). This bond in all iridoids is located…
Rule Zero: Let your brain be the hero.(Wisdom from the vintage “Advisor” computer program) How to remember the formulas of polysaccharides? Experience in teaching pharmacognosy shows that the main hurdle in memorizing the structures of mono- and polysaccharides is distinguishing between the alpha and beta forms of sugars. Most students know they exist, but the…
Cleansing the body. Main approaches and methods. The human body is a perfect self-regulating energy-information system, in which everything is interconnected and interdependent, and the margin of safety is always greater than any damaging factor. It is known that skin cells are replaced every 5-6 months, hair every 3 years. The cells of the…
Creating Your Individual Exercise Program (Increasing Health Reserves) Before you start creating your individual exercise program, be sure to assess your physical condition and calculate your total score using the calculator (the methodology is described in the section “11 Tests for Self-Monitoring Physical Fitness”). Now create your exercise program using the summator…
11 tests for self-assessment of physical fitness With the help of these tests, you can independently determine your physical fitness and create a training program. A calculator is used to determine physical fitness, while a summator and a dosimeter are used to create an individual training program. The physical condition calculator is designed…
Harvard Step Test (Step Test = = test for cardiovascular and respiratory endurance) The test was developed at Harvard University in the USA in 1942. The Harvard Step Test quantitatively assesses recovery processes after controlled muscular work. In the Harvard Step Test, the physical load is given in the form of ascents onto a…
Aluminum (Al) “Alzheimer” is very close! Aluminum plays an important physiological role in the human body – it participates in the regeneration processes of bone, connective, and epithelial tissues, influences digestive enzymes, and affects the function of the parathyroid glands; however, its excess can lead to the…
Zinc (Zn) High testosterone, healthy prostate, nails without white spots. Zinc is a macroelement that in the human body participates in protein synthesis, copying genetic material, hematopoiesis, functioning of the immune and endocrine systems, and acts as a cofactor for several hundred zinc-dependent enzymes. Deficiency causes growth retardation, dwarfism, delayed…
Tea with a film: to drink or to survive… Chinese folk wisdom says: “Stale tea is like poison.” And in Japan, they say: “Yesterday’s tea is worse than a snake bite.” Tea (or, in other words, the extract of tea leaves) is a complex mixture in terms of chemical composition, consisting of catechins, their…