EVEREST ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(Affiliated to Pokhara University)

Sanepa-2, Lalitpur

[Subject code: PRJ]

A MINI PROJECT PROPOSL ON

HERBAL INFO

Submitted by:
ASHISH KUTAL BISTA [19070296]
RAKESH PANTHA [19070849]
SAUGAT POUDEL [19070323]
TIRTHA BHATTARAI [19070333]

Submitted to:
Department of Computer Engineering
November, 2020
 ABSTRACT

Medicinal and Herbal plants have been used in virtually all cultures as a source of

medicine. Assurance of the safety, quality, and efficiency of medicinal plants and herbal
products has now become a key issue in medical industry and in developing countries. The
widespread use of herbal remedies and healthcare preparations is described in our
historical books. Medicinal plants have been used for thousands of years to flavor and
conserve food, to treat health disorders and to prevent diseases including epidemics. The
knowledge of their healing properties has been transmitted over the centuries within and
among human communities Currently, people are now concerned about their health and
start to recognize that herbs are one of the beneficial ingredients to spice up their life.
Though most of them do not know which herb can exactly benefit them or how it looks like.
This paper presents a web-based and mobile oriented herbal information system design.
With this system, herb identification, herbal vocabulary and medicinal usages can provide a
professional information station for people to collect herb knowledge and an interactive
platform for people to exchange scientific ideas by using local/common language. Finally, in
order to ensure the conceptual model is well defined, a set of rules for keyword searching is
created to verify preciseness of output produced. For current situation, this system is being
planned to be applied only in Nepal.

Key words:
 Herbal info
 Medicinal plants
 Phytotherapy
 Herbs in Nepal
 Traditional medicine
Contents
ABSTRACT..........................................................................................................................................- 1 -
LIST OF FIGURES....................................................................................................................................1
LIST OF TABLES......................................................................................................................................2
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................3
1.1 Background............................................................................................................................3
Problem Statement...........................................................................................................................3
1.2 Objectives..............................................................................................................................4
1.3 Project Features.....................................................................................................................4
1.4 Feasibility Analysis.................................................................................................................4
1.5.1 Economic Feasibility.......................................................................................................4
1.5.2 Technical Feasibility.......................................................................................................4
1.5.3 Operational Feasibility...................................................................................................4
1.5.4 Time Feasibility..............................................................................................................4
1.5 System Requirement.............................................................................................................5
1.5.1 Software Requirement...................................................................................................5
1.5.2 Hardware Requirement.................................................................................................5
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW..........................................................................................................6
CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY.................................................................................................................7
3.1 INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................7
3.2 Hardware and Software Requirement...................................................................................8
3.3 Proposed System Design........................................................................................................8
3.4 Proposed System Block diagram............................................................................................9
3.5 Working Principle...................................................................................................................9
CHAPTER 4: RESULT AND ANALYSIS.....................................................................................................10
4.1 Expected Output..................................................................................................................10
4.2 Budget Analysis....................................................................................................................11
4.3 Work Schedule.....................................................................................................................11
 LIST OF FIGURES

FIG 3.1: ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK OF MEDICINAL HERBS FOR PRESCRIPTION HERBAL MEDICINE .........................................7
FIG 3.3: PROPOSED SYSTEM DESIGN................................................................................................................................8
FIG 3.4: BLOCK DIAGRAM..............................................................................................................................................9
FIG 4.1: EXPECTED DESIGN OF OUTPUT..........................................................................................................................10

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 LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 4.2: BUDGET OF PROJECT...................................................................................................................................11

TABLE 4.3: GANT-CHART.............................................................................................................................................11

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 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

Plants have been used for medicinal purposes long before prehistoric period. They
play a vital role on the development of the society from the beginning of human civilization.
The unique proprieties of plants and their combination contains a large number of
pharmacologically active ingredients which still has maintain an important role in the
treatment of many diseases on the different part of the world. Though phytotherapy has been
the best way to cure various disease, there are a lot imprecise thoughts and rumors in our
communities on the use of the medicinal plants. The correct information about the medicinal
plants can be given efficiently by making an application which can allow the needed one to
access the needed information.
As the traditional medicinal plants leads to the discovery of the many herbal drugs,
bioactive compounds from medicinal plants can be directly used as healing agent and their
phytochemicals also serve as lead compound for developing potential drugs to cure diseases
in humans. In Nepal, 25.2% of the population lived below the national poverty line (2010)
[1]. And still the poverty line is so high which makes impossible for people to afford modern
medicine. According to the WHO report, 1966, the issues of fake drugs, drug abuse and
excessive side effect of drugs are the major problems in modern medicine [2]. The uses of
orthodox medicine has been widely accepted because of the globalization on the medicinal
field but still the low economic situation is making people difficult to afford it. This paper
proposes a web-based system for the herbal medicine prescription and to provide the details
about herbal medicine in easier way.

Problem Statement

In recent times, herbal medicine has found its way as an alternative to orthodox
medicine, it is the oldest and still the most widely used system of medicine in the world today
[3]. Orthodox medicine are dispensed to patients in specific doses or in strictly regulated
quantities and their portions are standardized whereas not for herbal medicine. And that’s the
main problem for people to believe on herbal medicines. Inadequate information about the
drugs and the herbalist may also die with the knowledge of the herbs which may lead to
misinformation about the herbs in generations to come [4]. Thus, the correct prescription for
herbal medicine is what the world needs.

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1.2 Objectives

 To provide users the herbal information and prescription in easier and effective way.

1.3 Project Features

 Provides information about medicinal plants.

 Provides herbal prescription.
 User friendly.
 Search functionality.

1.4 Feasibility Analysis

1.5.1 Economic Feasibility

The project is economically feasible. Since the project is supposed to be done by

utilizing the available online sources and by just 4 programmers, it can be completed by
pretty good budget. The system will be free to users and there is a possibility of having good
impact on users coming days.

1.5.2 Technical Feasibility

Because of the reason, this software can easily be made using available sources, the
feasibility on the technical way can be called feasible. This software is compatible for every
computer with windows 7(and higher) as it is built using PHP language, HTML on Sublime text.

1.5.3 Operational Feasibility

This proposed web-based system will be user friendly. So, the of people age 12+ can easily
interact with the system.

1.5.4 Time Feasibility

The project will not be so complicated. It is expected to complete within eight weeks.
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1.5 System Requirement

1.5.1 Software Requirement

 Sublime text
 Web browser
 MySQL
 Graphics Editor

1.5.2 Hardware Requirement

 PC (Windows 7 or higher)
 RAM (1 GB or higher)
 Processor (i3 or higher)

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 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

Herbs are still the primary source of medicinal plants after trees in Nepal and mostly
being used for gastro-intestinal problems, followed by fever and headache. 'Herbal
Encyclopedia Bir Nighantu' or 'Bir pharmacopoeia' by Pandit Ghana Nath Devkota in 1969 is
probably the first hand written effort towards a compilation of the traditional knowledge
about medicinal plants of Nepal covering 750 plants in detail. Work done by Banerji et al. in
1955 is the earliest published work based on medicinal plants in East Nepal. About 85 % of
the Nepalese population are dependent on the traditional plant-based medicines for their
primary health care needs [5]. Many plants from Nepal have been identified to show
antimicrobial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic and even antiviral properties. With
recent developments in the field of Biotechnology, there has been slight shift in research
towards validation of the mechanism of action of medicinal plants in cancer. Although, the
vast amount of work has been done to identify the traditional medicinal plants of Nepal, but
due to geographical, climatic and topographical complications, sometimes it is difficult for
the researchers to collect the valuable samples that they could get from extreme locations of
Nepal. There is also lack of special plant protection centers for traditional medicinal plants in
Nepal due to which important plants of medicinal values are also in the phase of extinction.
There is also a lack of funds and sophisticated equipment in the field of medicinal plant
research for the institutions in Nepal which is limiting the research in screening antimicrobial
and phytochemical properties.
 'Herb society of America', 'Herb research foundation' and many more sites does give
information about herbs. This website has all the information about the works done by
our fellow researchers and all the knowledge about herbal plants. This project “Herbal
info” is a innovative program which will help to Know about the herbs which play a vital role
for our good health. 

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 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY

3.1 INTRODUCTION

Methodologies are the ways and the multiple steps used to study about any topics.
Through this web-based system, the user interacts with user interface and can access the it
possess.

Fig 3.1: Architectural Framework of Medicinal Herbs for Prescription Herbal Medicine

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3.2 Hardware and Software Requirement

The needed software required to make the application system work effectively are
Sublime text and graphics editor using HTML for front end and PHP for back end. And a
good internet connectivity. MySQL will be use for the Database Management System. As it
been a program which can be made using available sources, a normal working PC of 1 GB
RAM and core of i3 will be enough.s

3.3 Proposed System Design

The proposed system does have well designed interface.

Fig 3.3: Proposed System Design

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3.4 Proposed System Block diagram

Fig 3.4: Block Diagram

3.5 Working Principle

Firstly, the designation of the program and implementation and then the verification of the
program will be the working principle of this project.

Once the user log in, user can be able access the information about the useful medical plants
as it gets the details from stored information of database. And can go on ailment treatment from
which the required prescription for the aliment can be obtained. Through the medicinal plants and
prescription, the user can get details about the different useful parts of plants.

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 CHAPTER 4: RESULT AND ANALYSIS

4.1 Expected Output

The expected result of this project is to be able to upload the information about medicinal
plants and the require prescription for the different ailments.

Fig 4.1: Expected design of output

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4.2 Budget Analysis

Though its been a project for which we are working on the available sources within ourself
and taking sources from online, we are spending our time into it. That can be consider as the budget
spent for programmers.

Number of Programmer 4
Working Days 60
Cost of Programmer per day Rs 100
Total Programmer cost Rs 24,000
Extra Expenses Rs. 4,000
Total project cost Rs. 28,000
Table 4.2: Budget of Project

4.3 Work Schedule

Week\ Start Finis week week week week week week week week
Task date h 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
date
Research Nov1 Nov14

Creating Nov11 Nov17

sitemaps
Design Nov15 Nov21

Coding Nov22 Dec12

Testing and Dec5 Dec18

debugging
Documenta Dec19 Dec32
tion
Final Dec26 Dec32
review
Table 4.3: Gant-Chart

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 REFERENCES
[1] Asian Development Bank, 2010
[2] WHO (2002). Traditional medicine strategy 2002-2015.
[3] Acharya, D. and Shrivastava A. (2008). Indigenous Herbal Medicines: Tribal
Formulations and Traditional Herbal Practices
[4] Patterson, E. (1996). “Standardized extracts: herbal medicine of the future”?
[5] Raut Bechan, Khanal Dharma Prasad. reserchgate.net "Present status of traditional
healthcare system in Nepal". 2011.
 https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/herbal-medicine
 http://www.medherb.com/
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmWpUrgXBdlT7l4iEz37S0Q
 https://www.herbsociety.org/