Medicinal plants play a vital role in the maintenance of
human health throughout the world and notably in Amagu community and Ezza South
as a whole. They are of critical importance in poor communities where even relatively
cheap western medicine remain prohibitively expensive.
Medicinal
plant also play an important cultural role as well as economic role. Knowledge
of their use is widespread and their efficacy is trusted based on a long
history particularly effects on women.
Women are frequently responsible for the
collection of medicinal plant and have a real need for medicinal health cares
in the family and for the importance of these plant in treating gynecological
illnesses.
Despite the long traditional of usage of medicinal plants, their
proven efficacy and lack of affordable alternatives, the contained habitat destruction
and over collection of main sources of medicinal plant are becoming increasingly
scarce.
For areas largely reliant on oral rather than written tradition, loss
of medicinal plants means not only an in mediate loss of effective remedies but
also rapid erosion on knowledge of their use. This is a process that is then
particularly difficult to half.
Actions are therefore urgently required to
implement measures to ensure the continued availability and use of medicinal
plant.
Measures should involve varied approaches,
including
conservation
of plant in home gardens, utilization of medicinal plants and their
identification and documenting and promoting medicinal plant use. All these
approaches benefit from information products which this project has provided.
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