How to use the medicinal herbal plants
In the following we try to give in a very short way an idea of how to use medicinal herbal plants.
To get some herbal plants is much cheaper than to by medicines. We provide the medicines for the people and show them how to use.
Diarrhea
Extract the juice of the leaves of the Ampalaya (Momordica charantia) and drink one spoonful daily.
Bayabas leaves are helpful against diarrhea. While cooked one cup of Bayabas leaves with three cups of water. Drink the cold tea three times a day.
Fever
Kalamansi (Citrus microcarpa) is reducing fever and spending vitamin C at the same time. The fresh fruit juice can also be used for many other reasons like as deodorant etc.
Stomachache
A decoction of the leaves is used against stomachache.
Caugh
A tea made of leaves of Lagundi is alleviating caugh as well as helpful for asthma.
Scabies
Coconut oil soap as well as water from boiled neem tree have been anecdotally effective.
Skin desease
Acapulco juice from the leaves can be used for tinea infections, eczema, insect bites, ringworms, also scabies and itchiness
Akapulko
Further informations: Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing, Medicinal Plants of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines 1978
Link: www.globalpinoy.com/pinoyhealth/ph_gamotpinoy/
We are still working on this page - be patient please / dahan dahan lang!
Dahan dahan lang - step by step
Paminsan minsan hindi ako matiyaga. Alam ko! Pero dahan dahan lang. Everything needs time. Ang pasiensia rin.
Sinabi ng pari sa akin: “Lahat ng bagay dito ay kailangan ng panahon. Good thing needs time also in the Philippines. Alam mo, hindi mabilis ang mga tao. Dahan dahan lang“. Masunurin ako. Hinihintay ko ang mga trabaho. Pero nagtratrabaho ako sa mga projekto ng parokiya. Kailangan ko ng mga kasama at katulong sa mga projekto. Malapit na kami magumpisa sa mga Barangay ng projekto ng mga halamang gamot sa paaralang elementarya at isang feeding program para sa mga bata at iba pang projekto sa kalusogan ng mga tao sa Barangay.
Talagang totoo - mayroon maraming trabaho. Ang ginagawa ko ay ang mga iba't iba pang projekto tulad ng supplementary pagkain sa mga mahihirap o maliit na business para sa mga mahihirap. Ok lang - tama na! Maraming maraming salamat po sa interes inyo.
I spoke with the priests in Mangatarem and they told me: We need time, step by step. Even in the Philippines good thing needs time. I'm ready to start with a program of health for the Barangays. It is not only about going around and meeting people in the Barrios. It is a program to help the people that they can help themselves: don't give the people fish, but teach them how to fish.
The project package aims to build Basic Eclesiastical Communities by starting with a feeding program for malnourished children and a medicinal herbal plants garden beside the elementary school. So we can teach the teachers and they will teach the children how to use it. There will be some cards with the informations for the people. Aside from this we'll start some workshops for health education for the families. Furthermore the parish can also start bible sharing and other comunity based programs.
This sounds very simple, but it needs time indeed! So I use the time to prepare programs like supplementary food for the needy or small business programs for the people.
I guess my simple Tagalog is very helpful to meet the people in the Barangays as well as just to talk with them and to understand them better.
Pflanzenheilkunde
Die Ärmsten Menschen in den Barangays sind oft so arm, dass sie sich noch nicht einmal die günstigsten Medikamente beschaffen können. Dies ist einer der Gründe, warum viele gar nicht erst den Gang in ein Gesundheitszentrum machen. Sie erhalten dort oft ein Rezept und gehen dann ohne das Medikament wieder nach Hause.
Aus diesem Grunde sterben viele Menschen, besonders Kinder an manchmal einfach zu behandelnden Infektionskrankheiten. Kurzum: die Armut ist Hauptgrund für die zum Teil schwierige Gesundheitliche Situation der Menschen.
Darum ist einer unserer ersten Schritte das Anlegen eines Kräutergartens für die einfachste Behandlung von Infektionen, Husten, Fieber, Durchfall, Vitaminmangel etc. So gehören zu den ersten Pflanzen in unserem Garten: Kamille, Zitronengras, Salbei, schweizer! Pfefferminze, Anis, Pandal und Ampalaya etc etc
Mit den Lehrern werden wir in den Barangays einen kleinen Garten einrichten und die Menschen über ihre eigenen Pflanzen unterrichten. Ein Wissen, das hier leider im Laufe der Kolonialisierung verloren gegangen ist. Allerdings gibt es noch an vielen Orten echte Ureinwohner, von denen es viel zu lernen gäbe...
Nur wenige hier haben je ein Spital von innen gesehen und nur wenige haben Zugang zu medizinischer Betreuung in westlichem Sinne.
In der kommenden Zeit werden wir darum Rezepte erarbeiten, wie wir unsere Pflanzen sinnvoll und effizient nutzen können. Die Pflanzen werden durch uns vermehrt und gratis an die Schulen abgegeben, die sich verpflichten, die Bewohner in Workshops zu unterrichten.
Links zu Medicinal Herbal Plants:
www.heilpflanzen-suchmaschine.de/index.shtml
