PART II

What I can Do

Significance of the Study

Results of this study, which aims to determine the potential of serpentina leaves, would

be beneficial to many people, because if they got wounded, they won’t need to go to public

hospitals away from their homes

Likewise, results of the study will also help to reserve medicines and other wound-

healing substances to patients that has more serious injuries and wounds.

Finally, results of the study could encourage others students to investigate other things

that will serve as an alternative or substitute for another thing that would save a lot of time,

money, and energy.

Scope and Delimitations of the Study

This study will deal with determining the potential of the serpentina leaves as an

alternative wound healing substance by determining its level of acceptability in terms of

effectiveness, availability, safeness, and accessibility in terms of time using a validated checklist.

The results will be based on the ratings of evaluator respondents on the checklist.
 The study is also limited to the use of serpentina leaves as the primary materials in testing

its effectiveness as a wound healing substance alternative.

The effectiveness of the finished product will be described in terms of its efficiency if it

works well just like the commercial medicinal products. The availability shall be described as to

whether it is available to other people or not. In terms of safeness, it shall be described as to

whether it provides either no risk or a minimum acceptable level of risk, taking into account the

normal or reasonably foreseeable use of the product and the need to maintain a high level of

protection for consumers. Its accessibility in terms of time will be determined whether it will

take a lot of time for people to access or locate it in rural areas.

Definition of Terms

For purposes of clarity, the following terms are hereby defined:

Acceptability. The quality of state or potential of being acceptable.

Accessibility. This refers to the degree to which a product, device, service, or

environment is available to as many people as possible.

Effectiveness. This refers to the degree to which something is successful in

producing a desired result.

Safeness. This refers to the quality of being safe of a product.

 Serpentina Leaves. The Rauvolfia serpentina, the Indian snakeroot, devil pepper,

or serpentine wood, is a species of flower in the milkweed family Apocynaceae that can

be found in some rural areas.

Wound-healing Substance. This refers to an object which has the ability to

replace destroyed or damaged tissue by newly produced tissue.

 CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter includes the literatures and studies related to the current study.

Related Legal Bases

RA No. 8423 of 1997, also known as the “Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act

(TAMA)” aims to accelerate the development of traditional and alternative health care in the

Philippines, providing for a traditional and alternative health care development fund and for

other purposes. (Retrieved from https://pitahc.gov.ph/about/republic-act-no-8423/, February 26,

2021)

Same with the study being taken, the study aims to reserve a big number of medicinal

products for serious injuries and take the serpentina leaves as an alternative wound-healing

substance for less-serious injuries.

Related Literature

Stated by the World Health Organization (2008) “Traditional medicine (also known as

indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed

over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies before the era of modern medicine.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the
knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to

different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the

prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness". Traditional

medicine is contrasted with scientific medicine.”

According to Ex Kurz (1877), “Rauvolfia serpentina, the Indian snakeroot, devil pepper,

or serpentine wood is a species of flower in the milkweed family Apocynaceae. It is native to the

Indian subcontinent and East Asia (from India to Indonesia). Rauvolfia is a perennial undershrub

widely distributed in India in the sub-Himalayan regions up to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). It shrubs

to 1 m tall, erect, glabrous. Stems usually unbranched, slender, straw colored. Leaves grouped

near stem apex, in whorls of 3-5; petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic or obovate,

membranous, 7-17 X 2-9 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate or rarely obtuse; lateral veins 7-15

pairs. Cymes congested; peduncle 5-13 cm, red or reddish. Pedicel and calyx red or reddish.

Corolla white, tube cylindric, 1-1.8 cm, inflated at middle and pilose inside distal half; lobes

obliquely suborbicular, 1.5-3.5 mm. Stamens inserted at middle of corolla tube. Ovaries connate

in basal half. Drupes ellipsoid, ca. 8 mm, connate for half their length. The roots are used as a

sedative and in the treatment of hypertension. The bark, leaves, and roots are used against snake

and scorpion poisoning.”

Part III What I Can Do

REFERENCE LIST

Department of Health (2019). Retrieved from https://pitahc.gov.ph/about/republic-act-no-8423/,

February 26, 2021

"Traditional Medicine: Definitions". World Health Organization. 2008-12-01. Retrieved from:

https://www.who.int/health-topics/traditional-complementary-and-integrative-

medicine#tab=tab_1, February 26, 2021

eFloras. "Rauvolfia serpentina". Flora of China. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO &

Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Retrieved from:

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200018451, February 26, 2021