VARIETIES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
Found in Poblacion, Boljoon, Cebu
This Investigatory Project is presented to the faculty of
The Patronage of Mary Development School
Poblacion, Boljoon, Cebu
Brylle S. Calungsod
Bhonie May Evale
Kim Janzel Radana
Ana Mae Pelonio
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Thinking about medicines, it is one of the common need of
people in the community. Because medicines can relieve our pain,
injury or any sickness. We also know that there are commercial
medicines and herbal medicines. But how about talking about the
medicinal plants found on the Boljoon, Cebu. The town of Boljoon
is only simple but did you know that it is rich in history and green
leafy plants. And one these green leafy plants are the healing
plants and what we called the medicinal plants. These plants are
very useful because aside from cleaning the air it has an ability to
heal a particular illness or injury. Going round on the Boljoon and
making a study like this is awesome because we can learn and
aside from it is we can help other people by applying it to the
community. I once said, “Little do you know that some things
cannot describe by its feature in what you see but in what it had
inside”. Many plants you in the side of roads, in your community
and even at your home but you don’t know that it has many uses
and one of it is to heal an illness. That’s why we conduct this study
to help other people know the uses of medicinal plants.
The term “medicinal plant” includes various types of plants
used in herbalism ("herb ology" or "herbal medicine"). It is the use
of plants for medicinal purposes, and the study of such uses. Plants
have been used for medicinal purposes long before prehistoric
period. Ancient Unani manuscripts Egyptian papyrus and Chinese
writings described the use of herbs. Evidence exist that Unani
Hakims, Indian Vaids and European and Mediterranean cultures
were using herbs for over 4000 years as medicine. Indigenous
cultures such as Rome, Egypt, Iran, Africa and America used herbs
in their healing rituals, while other developed traditional medical
systems such as Unani, Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine in which
herbal therapies were used systematically.
Traditional systems of medicine continue to be widely practiced on
many accounts. Population rise, inadequate supply of drugs,
prohibitive cost of treatments, side effects of several synthetic
drugs and development of resistance to currently used drugs for
infectious diseases have led to increased emphasis on the use of
plant materials source of medicines for a wide variety of ailments.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813099/
LITERATURE BACKGROUND
Traditional Medicine is time-tested and still caters to the
health needs of the society and provides health care through
prophylactic treatment and rejuvenation. Today poisonous snake
bites are life-threatening problems resulting in high morbidity and
mortality all over the world including Sri Lanka. The medicinal
plants available locally and used widely by traditional healers.
Therefore they need attention in this aspect. Healing with medicinal
plants is as old as mankind itself. The connection between man and
his search for drugs in nature dates from the far past, of which
there is ample evidence from various sources: written documents,
preserved monuments, and even original plant medicines.
Awareness of medicinal plants usage is a result of the many years
of struggles against illnesses due to which man learned to pursue
drugs in barks, seeds, fruit bodies, and other parts of the plants.
Contemporary science has acknowledged their active action, and it
has included in modern pharmacotherapy a range of drugs of plant
origin, known by ancient civilizations and used throughout the
millennia. The knowledge of the development of ideas related to
the usage of medicinal plants as well as the evolution of awareness
has increased the ability of pharmacists and physicians to respond
to the challenges that have emerged with the spreading of
professional services in facilitation of man's life.
Traditional Medicine comprises a medical aspect of traditional
knowledge that developed over generations within various societies
before the era of modern medicine. It is termed as Alternative
Medicine, Complementary Medicine, and Indigenous Medicine in
many countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines
traditional medicine as the sum total of the knowledge, skills and
practices based on theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to
different cultures, whether explicable not, used in the maintenance
of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or
treatment of physical and mental illness.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327118172_A_Literature
_Review_on_Medicinal_Plants_are_using_for_the_Management_of
_the_Snake_bite_in_Traditional_Medicine
