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Health and Bio-Diversity Conservation
CONSERVATION AND PROMOTION OF TRADITIONAL HEALTHCARE AND
RELATED KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
While Sambandh directs
a good proportion of its resources and energy to economic development,
environment and empowerment of the village community are the most important
components of its mission. Sambandh strives to develop traditional medicine
(ayurveda and folk systems) as culturally acceptable and appropriate
promotive, preventive and creative health care programme and to improve
the local health care through an innovative, alternative and indigenous
health care approach. It aims to develop the sensitivity and health
culture of local communities.
This has been accomplished by orienting the traditional health care
away from the standard preoccupation with coverage and targets towards
initiating such processes in village level that would view health in
total, that is, a socio-political and ecological perspective that regards
traditional health care as a first step accessible to restore community
health.
Analyzing the above issues , Sambandh has taken up programme on Revival
& promotion of Indigenous health care system since 1995, which can
contribute substsntially in maintaining community health.
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We work towards increasing access to health
care for Common Mass,
who are deprived from health services -
We reach them through indigenous health practitioners, who have
in
depth knowledge base on the vibrant healing tradition
PERIPHERY OF THE PROGRAMME
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Raising the status of
Indigenous medicine as an effective Health care Resource.
* Encouraging tribal
confidence in their own tested & low cost system of medicine
& generating interest among young tribals.
* Opening up a larger
user base in interior areas.
* Increasing
recognition & public awareness
* Sensitizing policy
makers to the issues involved in preservation & sustaining
indigenous & folk system of medicine through advocacy
Educating the people on the importance &
need of revival of indigenous healthcare.
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Workshop/training for NGOs , Indigenous health practitioners
* Publication &
dissemination of Knowledge
Research & Documentation
* Documentation of indigenous
knowledge system prevalent and popularized through oral
system.
* Research on prevention
of Malaria through Herbal application & ethno-medical
perception of indigenous knowledge among indigenous community
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ACHIEVEMENTS IN OUR SOJOURN
No. of Indigenous healers organized :: 1530 No. of Association of Indigenous Healers :: 30 No. of Sabuja Vahini formed in Schools :: 42 No of School Students organized:: 919 No. of TBAs identified & trained :: 628 No. of NGOs involved :: 71 No. of resource Agencies involved :: 13 No. of Community Herbal Gardens developed 7 No. of Regional Herbal Garden developed :: 2
Conservation Initiatives taken
In an effort to conserve vulnerable endangered & rare medicinal plants for future generation to identify and recognize 134 such plants are collected from different parts
of the state and conserved as herbal.
200 photographs of medicinal plants during flowering & fruiting stage, collection and utilization of them by traditional healers, medicinal plant nurseries, gardens etc,. have been collected as apart of documenting their importance
Though traditional healers know the traditional methods of medicine preparation but unaware of modern, hygienic methods, utensils, quantification, etc. After necessary training, 2 organizations of traditional healers have been preparing medicine for malaria, Dysentery and Acidity besides powder of myrobolans
Lack of properly documented traditional treatment methods is a major obstruction in popularizing traditional methods of treatment. Till now common herbal treatment of 35 prevailing diseases found in the state are being documented.
200 hectares of Forest area protected by Charak Ayurvedic Vaidya Sansha in Rayagada district.
Lack of availability of medicinal plants in addressed by 2 nurseries of common and endangered medicinal plants. These nurseries play a vital role in promoting home herbal gardens and plantation by schoolchildren.
9 community herbal gardens are being developed to cultivate and propagate not only common but also rare & endangered medicinal plants by the Vaidya Sanghas in a participatory manner so that, every member of the Sangha shall collect seedlings from the forest and locality and plant them in the garden.
A comprehensive programme of " home herbal garden" was launched through which every household was encouraged by the local Vaidya Sangha for plantation of medicinal plants. This results in plantation of common medicinal plants for day- to-day use by 578 interested persons.
