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MEDICAL PLANTS – SOURCE OF HEALTH
Motto: “Why bother going to
the medical center for every easy illness?”
Fitoteraphy helps our body to
fight agains easy illnesses by simple treatments.
Deniplant Company organise a
popularising program for medical plants and their
way of using.
The reason: Over 50 percent of
the medicaments derive from plants now threatened
with extinction, because of the massive harvesting
and deforesting, according to an International
Organization of Bothanical Gardens Preservation
organization study. Plants hat in the future could
help treating diseases like cancer or SIDA and which
are about to disappear before the further researches
will be done. At this moment, about five billions
people benefit of treatment with these plants, and
the researches forewarn us that losing them will
automatically conduct to unexpected problems in
medicine.
“Fitotherapy is from always”
The first data which attests
that the summeriens used medical plants in
therapeutic purposes dates from 6000 years b.C.,
which were describing various plants used by them in
cureing the diseases of that time. In ancient times,
Hipocrate, the most famous doctor back then, has
wrote the “Corpus Hipocraticus” study, in which over
200 medical plants are described.
Herodot itself show us that
the Dacians had acquaitances about how to use the
medical plants for preparing different remedies.
Thus in a viennese copy of the Dioscoride`s
creation, named “Of medical matter” written in the
first century of our era, we can find 24 dacians`s
appellations of some medical plants.
The latin poet Vergilius,
reffering on the rich variety of plants on the Black
Sea romanian shore, has declared in one of his
writings that “the Port gives remedies”, that many
had ventured into unknown, taking all the risks
deriving from that adventure, for picking up the
healing herbs from the Port. “Many herbs the Port is
giving”, he specified.
The first Romanian
Pharmacopoeia, which firstly appeared in Bucharest
in 1862, contains 300 simple remedies, from which
217 were of vegetable origin. Later, in the 1976`s
Pharmacopoeia, which is still effectual, it was
specified that vegetable products are used in a
percentage on about 32% in medicaments.
If our ancestors had used
medical plants according to tradition, nowadays
their use should be scientifically underlained,
according the samples and laboratory researches. But
it is done with a lot of inaction, and very few
specialists seem open minded. And here we are in the
thid millennium, having to use the romanian
tradition and old remedies like there were handed
over from generation to generation.
It will always be light this ?
Furthermore, the phytotherapy
chapter is far from being closed and this all-around
the world, even though the allopathic medicaments
industry is more advanced than the weaponry one.
This on the first hand, because there are still many
medical plants which waits to be discovered or
rediscovered, and on the second hand, because even
though the known medical plants didn`t reveal all
their secrets.
Thus, this project`s motivation
is an ecologically one too, for the pupils, teachers
and, generally speaking, the whole community to
become aware that they can contribute at preserving
the surrounding envirovement, living in harmony with
it. We desire that through this project to create an
informing and exemplification chain at the whole
community level, throughout which the pupils to
hand over the plants`s knowledge obtained at school
to their parents, relatives, friends or neighbours.
If all of this pilot-project
goals will be achieved, we propose to implement it
int other parts of the country too, in other
communities, but also to extend it for the medical
plants to represent not only the green space that
surround us, but indeed a substantial source of
health.
Duration: The project have a
undetermined length and we`re hoping that the
included activities can be promoted for a period as
long as possible. For that a closer look should be
taken over the activities deployed and results
acquired, starting with the month of may, when this
pilot-project will begin, and all over its progress.
General objective:
It is written and spoken a lot
about the medical plants nowadays, but our project`s
freshness would be the presentation of those medical
herbs which could be picked up and used in the very
moment of their presentation.
The theoretical part of our
programme, presented by volunteering militants,
previously selected and trained by the company,
consists in the presentation of a Medical Plants
Calendar, structured on weeks (“calendarul
plantelor.doc” annex). This way, on each monthly
page of the calendar, to be present exactly those
medical plants which can be found and picked up each
week.
The practical activity: the
programmes leaded by formmaster or biology
teachers, will develop in many stages, consisting in
the practical presentation of the way how medical
herbs and wild -fruit can be picked up.
Pupils will take part
effectivey in picking up the camomile, mint,
box-thorn, wildrose fruts, raspberry etc, plants or
fruits that grow in their area of living.
The target group: pupils from
I up to VIII grade from Bucharest, Vaslui, brasov
and Cluj counties. In collaboration wits the County
Schoolar Inpectorates and the Bucharest Schoolar
Inspectorate there will be selectionated about 3
schools in which this program will take
place.
Direct beneficiaries:
Students
Teachers
-indirect
Parents and students relatives
Parteners:
School Inspectorate of
Bucharest
School Inspectorate of Vaslui
district
School Inspectorate of Brasov
district
School Inspectorate of Cluj
district
Publishing house:
Dacia Nova S.A Barlad Company
Expectances:
Students peculiarity of the
main medicinal plants existing in the area where
they live and develop their activity.
Ecological informing and
senzitising of the communities where the project
developes,according the European legislation
concerning the environement care.
The acquisition of every class
in schools where the project will be developed,of at
least a plant calendar.
Activities:
-Project launch through media
company:conference press and posters which will be
shown in schools and others institutions in the
certain communities
-Informimg meetings of didactic
members from participant schools who will promote
this company during biology classes.
-Eological informing and
sensitizing campaign of pupils by brochures which
will give them informations about our project. These
brochures will be used by formmaste teachers at
classrooms for promoting Deniplant campaign.
-Presentation of the plant
calendar
http://www.medactiv.ro/anexe/calendarul_plantelor.doc
-Students will effectively
participate when gathering the chamomile, mint,
wild rose, hips, raspberry etc, plants or fruits
that are growing in their area.
Resources
Human: The Deniplant Kids company`s managers,
teachers, pupils or even their parents or
relatives.
Technical: Nova Dacia SA company, which will ensure
the children`s carriage
Fizio-Med SA company, which will overlook the
children`s health condition
Financial:
Asigned on budget and attracted from donations and
sponsorships .
The allocated budget of this
activity will be of 5.000 RON. (1388,88 euro)
1000 RON (277.77 euro)
for calendars
4000 RON (1111,11 euro)
representing expenditures for displacement,
accommodation etc, for the directors that coordinate
the activity in province
Press release:
Bucharest 15.07.2008- Deniplant
Romania has the pleasure of announcing you of the
deploy of one popularizing programme for medical
plants and their way of use, named “MEDICAL
PLANT-SOURCE OF HEALTH”.Thus, this project`s
motivation is an ecologically one too, for the
pupils, teachers and, generally speaking, the whole
community to become aware that they can contribute
at preserving the surrounding envirovement, living
in harmony with it. We desire that through this
project to create an informing and exemplification
chain at the whole community level, throughout
which the pupils to hand over the plants`s
knowledge obtained at school to their parents,
relatives, friends or neighbours. |
