GUIDELINE OF HERBAL USAGE WISDOM CONSERVATION OF COMMUNITY IN BANKENG SUBDISTRICT, MAUNG DISTRICT, SA KAEO PROVINCE

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to 1) study the problems of wisdom conservation for herbal usage in the community of Ban Kaeng subdistrict, Muang district, Sa Kaeo province, and 2) study the guidelines of wisdom conservation for herbal usage in the community of Ban Kaeng subdistrict, Muang district, Sa Kaeo province. This qualitative research selected target group by purposive sampling such as local doctors, local philosophers who had knowledge and wisdom in herbal usage, herbal growers, and community leaders who promoted herbal usage get into a group of 5, totally 20 respondents. The data were collected by interview and focus group discussion analyzed by content analysis.
The research findings were as followed: the problems of wisdom conservation for herbal usage in the community consisted of 4 aspects 1) problem of herb growing, 2) problem of herb utilization, 3) problem of product development for herbs, and 4) problem of wisdom transferring for herbal usage.The guidelines of wisdom conservation for herbal usage in the community of Ban Kaeng subdistrict found that all of sectors should cooperate to promote the growing of herbs both in the public area and private area of each member, may be integrated farming system, agroforestry farming, family forest, tree bank, herb bank, on-farm growing, and garden around house. These activities emphasized to increase green area and community leaders should joint together and cooperate in herbal usage as well as enhanced channel of distribution. Public sector supported herbal development to be standardized, promoted knowledge and wisdom from local doctors or local philosophers to new generations in the form of books and data base of local doctors and herbs.