​ “The Efficiency of Serpentina Tea

​ as a Remedy to Cough for the

​ Ages of 6-18”

PRESENTED BY:
Group 1

RESEARCH ADVISER
Ms. Lovelyn Roque
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
During the pandemic, people are searching for inexpensive and simple ways to
treat cough without having to visit a pharmacy.

According to (J Nat Prod, 2021), Andrographis Paniculata is also know as

Serpentina, which is a medicinal plant commonly used for symptomatic relief of
the common cold.

According to a study (Gorter, 1911), Serpentina or Andrographis Paniculata

carry Andrographolide known as “king of Bitters”.

According to (Ph. Herbal Medicine, 2019), Oregano is a known herbal medicine

for its strong anti-oxidant properties.
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
1
What is the cough level of the respondents before the intake of both Serpentina tea and Oregano
.

tea?

2 How long does it take to have an effect after drinking both Serpentina and Oregano tea?

3 Which is more effective for both Serpentina and Oregano tea?

4
Is serpentina tea an effective alternative to oregano tea as a remedy for cough?

5 What are the side effects of both Serpentina tea and Oregano tea?

6 What challenges did you face while making the Serpentina and Oregano tea?
HYPOTHESIS
The serpentina tea has
significant effects to treat mild
cough from ages 6-18.
SCOPE AND DELIMITATION
The general intent of this study is to know the effectiveness of the serpentina tea
with the focus on children’s from ages 6 and adolescents that ages from 18which
also serves as the participants of this study
The researcher analyzed the effectiveness of the serpentine tea by comparing the
effectiveness of oregano as conventional alternative medicine for cough.
This scope of this study focuses on the experiments of the two groups which is
the serpentina as experimental group and oregano as control group.
This study was conducted to use the plant serpentina or known as Andrographis
Paniculata as herbal tea. The aspects looked into were the alternative herbal tea
that will help children who have cough and also to help people who don’t have
enough money to buy a medicine. The performance of the product and the
problems and proposed solution of our product.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Controlled group Experimental Group
(Oregano) (Serpentina)

Pre-test Pre-test

Conventional Intervention

Post-test Post-test
 METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN
Experimental research method.
True Experiment

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
Visual Analog Scale
 RESULTS (Table #1) – Table of Observation
CONTROL GROUP EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
OREGANO SERPENTINA
Level of cough/ Level of cough/ Duration of Side Effects Side Effects Level of cough/ Level of cough/ Duration of Side Effects Side Effects
RESPONDENTS RESPONDENTS
Effectivity (Positive) (Negative) Effectivity (Positive) (Negative)
pretest post test pretest post test

Relaxing, Relieves Relaxing, Relieves

pain in throat, pain in throat,
Relieves cough, Relieves cough,
Subject 1 1 0 5 minutes Reduce coughing, None Subject 1 1 0 2 minutes Reduce coughing, None
Improves the Improves the
feeling of your feeling of your
lungs lungs

Relaxing, Relieves Relaxing, Relieves

pain in throat, pain in throat,
Relieves cough, Relieves cough,
Subject 2 2 0 10 minutes Reduce coughing, None Subject 2 2 0 5 minutes Reduce coughing, None
Improves the Improves the
feeling of your feeling of your
lungs lungs

intervention intervention
Relaxing, Relieves Relaxing, Relieves
pain in throat, pain in throat,
Relieves cough, Relieves cough,
Subject 3 3 1 30 minutes Reduce coughing, None Subject 3 3 1 20 minutes Reduce coughing, None
Improves the Improves the
feeling of your feeling of your
lungs lungs

Relaxing, Relieves
Relaxing, Relieves
pain in throat,
pain in throat,
Relieves cough,
Relieves cough,
Subject 4 4 1 1 hour Drowsiness Subject 4 4 1 42 minutes Reduce coughing, None
Improves the
Improves the
feeling of your
feeling of your
lungs
lungs

Relaxing, Relieves
Relaxing, Relieves pain in throat,
pain in throat, Relieves cough,
1 hour and 10
Subject 5 5 2 Improves the Drowsiness Subject 5 5 1 1 hour Reduce coughing, Drowsiness
minutes
feeling of your Improves the
lungs feeling of your
lungs
RESULTS (Table #2) - Wilcoxon
U1 = R1 - n1(n1+1)/2 ; U2 = R2 -
Oregano tea Serpentina tea observation ranks R1 = 29 U1 = 29 - 5(5+1)/2 = 14 n2(n2+1)/2
0 0 0 2.5 n1 = 5 where:
U1 and U2 = Wilcoxon Rank-
0 0 0 2.5 Sum Test
R1 = sum of rank of
1 1 0 2.5 R2 = 26 U2 = 26 - 5(5+1)/2 = 11 group 1
n1 = sample size of
1 1 0 2.5 n2 = 5 group 1
R2 = sum of rank of
2 1 1 7 group 2
n2 = sample size of
1 7 test stat = 11 (U2) group 2
1 7 crit val (U0.05) = 2
H0 = there was no positive
1 7 effect
H1= there are positive
1 7 if test stat>crit val, we reject H0. effects
2 10
Therefore, we accept H1 as our test stat is alpha = 0.05
df: n1 = 5 ; n2 =
greater than the crit val U0.05 = 2 5
U0.05 =
Oregano tea rank Serpentina tea rank 2
0 2.5 0 2.5
0 2.5 0 2.5
1 7 1 7
1 7 1 7
2 10 1 7
W1= 29 W2=26
 CONCLUSIONS
After the experimentations and data collections, researchers came up with the conclusions:

The results in the experimental and control groups have roughly similar positive and negative side
effects during the post-testing period.

Given the fact that the serpentina tea was comparable to the commonly used oregano tea, the
respondents in both the control and experimental groups improved significantly.

According to our research, Serpentina tea has considerably fewer negative side effects than oregano
tea. In addition, both control group and experimental group respondents felt drowsiness, but they
could both relieve their cough.

The findings of our serpentina tea versus oregano tea comparison show that serpentina tea is not only
faster, but also has more beneficial effects. In that case, the most effective tea among serpentina tea
and oregano tea is serpentina tea.
 RECOMMENDATIONS
The Serpentina Tea (output of the study) is made of Andrographis Paniculata. And Oregano Extracts are suggested as the alternative for
Serpentina tea, considered as a convenient way when it comes to treating cough without having to visit a pharmacy.

However, the findings of the study suggest that:

The study can be used as a concept paper and guide for future researchers with the same study.

The output of the study can be utilized on science experimentations, where the effectiveness of
Serpentina Tea can be a treatment for cough.

Future researchers should include the strength and reliability of the product for long-term use.

Future researchers should test the product to a wider variety of variables that can help and observed
other problems in the product for further improvement and evaluations.

The efficacy of Serpentina Tea may not be visible when it experiments with other types of cough or
symptoms that can be exploited to improve the efficiency of serpentine which emphasizes the
importance of further enhancements to develop a better treatment against coughs and other classes of
symptoms.
 LEADER:
Bernal, Merlaine Angelene Q.

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