Abstract: This study delved on the traditional plants with medicinal property as utilized by the indigenous “herbolarios” in treating sickness. The objective of this research is to disseminate and familiarized indigenous people traditional plants locally grown in the community as use to treat existing sickness, and to identify and classify these plants according to their uses, such as leaves, fruits and trunks/barks, and be able to introduce the health benefits. It used the qualitative research method and has ten herbolarios samples and conducted at Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Its findings confirmed that the traditional plants have medicinal property to treat local diseases of the indigenous people. It also provides information to the tribal people to use these plants and conserved the same for future use. The herbolarios used these plants to treat diseases existed in their locality. The traditional plants were collected during Holy Week. The indigenous people cultivated and conserved these plants for their uses. It was concluded that public awareness and community based management need to be encouraged at all levels to maintain the biodiversity and the ethno curative knowledge of the indigenous people. The researchers recommended that promotion on the use of natural remedies derived from various locally based resources such as medicinal plant species should be encourage among the younger generation.
Keywords: herbolarios, medicinal plants, indigenous people, sickness.
Title: TRADITIONAL PLANTS UTILIZED BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE “HERBOLARIOS”
Author: Dr. BERNARDO A. ZABALA JR., Dr. MIGUEL R. SANTOS, CLAIRE ANN Z. PEÑOL
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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