For my Assignment #1 guide, I will be creating a mock pharmacy medication bottle and information sheet that will contain actual cinnamon sticks.
The goal of the guide is to inform the audience of cinnamon’s history, its use in herbal medicine including its pros and cons, and the ethics around its production. This guide should be easily understood by a general audience. Using a pharmacy bottle is a metaphor for how cinnamon is not usually considered as an ingredient of pharmaceuticals in the western world, even though it has a long history of being used in herbal medicine. It brings up the argument of whether or not herbal medicine should be considered as a legitimate form of medication in the western world. The tone of this guide is to be satirical and parodic.
I have started by creating a mock pharmacy label:
This will be the container that will be displayed in the presentation:
