By C.Sivakumar | Programme Manager
The Earth Trust Provides Primary Health Care Training to Kota Tribals in The Nilgiris
The Earth Trust provides and supports a process whereby people learn to improve their personal habits and attitudes and to work responsibly for the improvement of health conditions in the family, community and nation. Every member of the health team shares responsibility in providing health education.
It aims to help people make use of their own efforts and education in improving their conditions of living, lodging, good nutrition and prevention of diseases.
It is a means of improving the health of the people by employing various methods of scientific procedures to show the most healthy ways of living.
Recently we conducted the training with the Kota tribes in Kollimalai Village. This is one of the seven villages of Kota, one of the primitive tribes of the Nilgiris district.
Training Period: April 2014 to June 2014
Number of Participants: 22 women.
Earth Trust teaches a 12-module programme for rural women. The Health Program is designed at imparting basic knowledge of the human body along with its various systems, empowering the women with knowledge to be able to handle simple ailments prevalent in villages. At the end of each system they are given traditional herbal plants which are known cures for the treatment of everyday problems pertaining to that particular system.
These plants are distributed to individuals and grown in a community & individual garden, which by the end of the Health Program gives the community a start-up Herbal Kitchen Garden.
The women of Kollimalai were also taught reflexology, massage, Reiki, preparation of homemade remedies for internal and external use, as well as preparation of some basic Siddha supplements.
Herb Medicine preparation – Herbal Teas, Legium, Chooranum, Oils and Syrups
a) Documentation of indigenous herbs & uses
b) Extending knowledge about indigenous plants
c) Preparing Medicine on available plants
d) Preparing Medicines for Primary Health Care conditions
After completing this programme the village women are aware of Hygiene, nutrition & above said information.They are happy to set up a Kitchen Herbal Garden for their own nutrition & primary health care. Now all the women have set up their herbal kitchen gardens.
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