PAYANAY FATIMA MAY E.

practitioner
appropriate
BSN-2A // CHN RLE technology for
frontline care
Outcome Reliance on Self-reliance,
health socially and
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE practitioner economically
productive
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND PHC
APPROACHES IN THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH
CARE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE- HOME ELEMENTS

DIMENSION TRADITIONAL PHC ESSENTIAL SERVICES

Goal Absence of Development
disease and H- Hospitals as a center of wellness
preventive
health care O- oral and dental health
Focus of care The sick The well and
early sick M- mental care
Setting for Urban-based Rural-based
E- elderly care
services hospitals satellite clinics
clinic and
E- education for health
homes
Health of Accessible Accessible to L- local endemic disease prevention & cont.
posts only to few all community
health center E-expanded program on immunization
People Passive Active
recipients and participation M- maternal and child/health/ family planning
health care in
structure Health Health is an E- essential drugs provision/herbal medicine
isolated from integral part
other sectors of N- nutrition
socioeconomic
development T- treatment of communicable diseases & acc
system
S- safe water and sanitation
process Top-down Bottom-up
decision- decision-
making making
Technology Curative Promotive and SUMMARY: PHC as the key approach
serves based preventive
on modern or services  Most essential approach of the
sophisticated blending country’s health care delivery system
technology traditional
 First level of contact of individuals,
medicine and
modern families and communities
medicine  First element of a continuing health
jurisdication Doctor Acceptance of care procces
dominated indigenous
  Essential services of PHC will be
delivered at the first point of contact
 Efficient referral and support system
 Higher level of facility where “ hospitals
as a center of wellness”
 Implementation of PHC as a key
strategy for achieving health for all and
health in hands of the people by the
year 2020
 Efficient and effective technology will
enable the people to participate
actively in health development
 Promote the use of home-based tools
for monitoring health conditions
 Safe utilization of traditional medicines
and other accepted local indigenous
procedures
ACUPRESSURE
 Method of maintaining health, treating
disease and alleviating pain by applying
pressure
 Discovered by the chinese 5,000 years
ago through the wounded soldiers
 Traditional chinese medicine believes
that life is the result of QI, or life
energy. This Qi eneters a person when
he or she is born and leaves when her
or she dies.
Qi has 2 aspects:
1. YIN- negative & feminine force
2. YANG- dominating positive & masculine
force
( when a person is health there is a balance in
the YING & YANG)
- When there is an imbalance of YIN
YANG Forces, there is illness.
APPLICATION OF ACUPRESSURE
POSTURE
 Lying down or sitting up
 Must be relaxed, comfortable and
natural
 Practitioner must be able to utilize fully
his or her fingers/hands and strength
MANIPULATION
 Thumbs pressure (1 or 2 thumbs)
 Hypothenar pressure, thenar pressure,
elbow pressure
 The pressure must be tolerable, firm
but not heavy enough to cause pain.
Press on the point using small circular
movement, 2-3 cycles per second.
Count 60 to 300 (1-5 minutes per point)
FREQUENCY
 As frequent as very 4 hours
PRECAUTIONS
 Room should be warm and well
ventilated
 Practitioners’ hands should be clean
and warm, nails should be trimmed
 Never massage subject with full
stomach.
 Don’t massage pregnant women and
cardiac patients
FOODS TO AVOID DURING TREATMENT
 Iced food or drink
 Sour food (vinegar, pickle, lemon, etc.)
 Alcohol drink
 Irritating food (pepper, hot sauce,
spices)
  Seafood (lobster, shrimps, crab)
 Salty foods
SELECTION OF ACUPRESSURE
1. Use of prescribed points- these are
given sets of points which could be used
for specific diseases
2. Use of ahshi points- these are painful
spots or noded which appear when a
person has an illness
LOCATION OF ACUPRESSURE
1. By the use of anatomical landmarks-
certain parts of the body could be used
as guides in locating certain
acupressure points
2. By the use of Tsun measurement- this is
a method of locating points in the body
using the patient’s own hands or fingers
as a basis for measurement.
ailments, more difficult cases should be
properly referred
In most cases, acupressure will suffice
to relieve the symptoms. If symptoms
persist, seek medical help . chronic
patients are advised to continue taking
their medication.
THE 10 HERBAL PLANT APPROVED BY
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Sambong (blumea balsamifera)
Uses & preaparations:
Anti-edema, diuretic, anti-urolithiasis
 Boil chopped leaves in water for 15min.
until one glassful remains. Cool and
strain. Divided decoction into 3parts,
drink each part 3 times a day.
Note: sambong is ot a medicine for kidney
infection

COMMON ILLNESSES WHERE ACUPRESSURE IS Akapulko (cassia, alata L.)

INDICATED Uses & preparations:
o Abdominal o Fainting Anti-fungal tinea flava, ringworm, athlete’s
pain foot & scabies.
o Back pain o Headache
o Bedwetting o Hiccups  Fresh, matured leaves are pounded.
o Diarrhea o hypertension Apply as soap to the affected part1-
o Dizziness o Joints pains 2times a day.
o Lung diseases o Common cold
o Sinusitis o Stiff neck Nyug-niyogan (quisqualis indica L.)
rhinitis
o Toothache Uses & preparation:

Anti-helmintic
Just a friendly reminder:
 The seeds are taken 2 hours after
Acupressure prescriptions given here supper. If no worms are expelled, the
are only for common and simple dose may be repeated after one week
Tisang gubat ( carmona retusa)
Uses & preparation :
Diarrhea- boil chopped leaves into 2 glasses of
water for 15min our or until amnt of H20 goes
down to 1 glass. Divide decoction into 4parts.
Drink 1 part every 3 hours.
Stomachache- boil chopped leaves in 1 glass of
water for 15min. cool & filter/ strain & drink.
Ampalaya (mamordica charantia)
Uses & preparations:
Lower blood sugar level, diabetesmellitus (mild
non insulin dependent)
 Gather & wash young leaves very well.
Chop, boil 6tbsp in 2 glassfuls of water
for 15min. unde low fire.do not cover
pot. Cool & strain. Take 1/3 cup 3 times
a day after meals.
Note: young leaves may be blanched/ steamed
and eaten ½ glassful 2 times a day
Lagundi ( vitex negundo)
Uses * praparations:
Asthma cough & fever
 Chopped raw fruits or leaves in 2glasses
of water for 15min until the water left I
only 1glass & strain.
Dysentery, colds & pain in any part of the body
as in influenza
 Boil a handful of leaves & flowers In
water to produce a glass full of
decoction 3 times a day.
Ulasimang-bato (peperonia pellucida)
Uses & preparations:
Lower uric acid (rheumatism and gout)
 Wash the leaves well. 1 ½ cup leaves
are boiled in two glass of water over
low fire. Do not cover pot. Cool &strain.
Divided into 3 parts and drink each part
3 times a day after meals.
Bawang/ garlic (allium sativum)
Uses & preparations:
Hypertension- maybe fried, roasted soaked In
vinegar for 30min,or blanched in boiled water
for 15min. take 2pcs 3 times day after meals.
Toothache- pound a smallpiece and apple to
affected area
Caution: take on a full stomach to prevent
stomach and intestinal ulcers
Bayabas/ guava (psidium guajava)
Uses & preparation:
For washing wounds- use a twice a day
For diarrhea- may be taken 3-4 times a day
As gargle and for toothache- wam decoction is
used for gargle. Freshly pounded leaves are use
for toothache. Guava leaves are to be washed
well & chopped. Boil for 15min. at low fire. Do
not cover pot. Coola dn strain before use
Yerba Buena (menthe cordifelia)
Uses & preparations:
Pain (headache, stomachache)- boild chopped
leaves in 2 glasess of water for 15min. coold
strain dividedl decoction into 2 parts, drink each
part every 3 hours
Rheumatism, arthritis and headache- crush the
fresh leaves and squeeze sap. Massage sap on
painful parts with eucalyptus
Cough & cold- soak 10 fresh leaves in a glass
hot water, drink as tea.
 Use only one kind of herbal plant for
each type of symptoms or sickness
 Stop giving the herbal medication ,
consult a doctor

Swollen gums- steep 6 gm. Of fresh plant in a

glass of boiling water for 30min. use as a garle
solution

Toothache- cut fresh plant and squeeze sap.

Soak a piece of cotton in the sap and insert this
in aching tooth cavity. Mouth should be rinsed
by gargling salt solution before inserting the
cotton. To 1 glass of water.

Menstrual & gas pain- soak a handful of leaves

in a glass of boiling water drink infusion. It
unduces menstrual flow & sweating

Nausea & fainting- crush leaves and apply at

nostril of patients.

Insect bites- crush leaves and apple juice on

affected part or pound leaves until paste-like &
rub on affected part

Pruritis- boil plant alone or with eucalyptus in

water. Use decoction as a wash on affected
area.

REMINDER ON THE USE OF HERBAL MEDICINE

 Avoid the use of insecticides as thes

may leave poison on plants
 In the preparation of herbal medicine,
use a clay pot and cover while boiling at
low heat
 Use only part of the plant being
advocated
 Follow accurate dose of suggested
preparation