Chapter 5
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AN RECOMMENDATION
Summary
This study is to determine whether or not people in Barangay Ubaldo
Laya use guava leaves as an alternative medicine for diarrhea. People nowadays
don’t need to use herbal medicines to cure the kind of illnesses they suffer from.
Because as for now, there are many medicinal drugs that can be easily swallowed
unlike herbal medicines, it take a lot of time to process. So, the researchers
interviewed the residents of Barangay Ubaldo Laya especially the people who
lives now far away from the city to buy medicinal drugs.
The following are the finding of the study:
1. Answers to the prepared questions from the randomly selected
respondents divulged that from the total number of the
respondents (50), majority or 24 % of them are in the adult ages ranging
from 15-25 years old. while respondents whose ages are within 26-35
years old comprised 18% of the sampled population followed by ages
56-65 representing 16% and lastly, the age bracket with the lowest
percentage (16%) of the respondents were
46-55 and 66-75.
2. Results of the research reveal that majority of the respondents prefer to
buy pharmaceutical drugs to treat diarrhea because oral
intake of the said drugs leaves no after taste or better yet no bitter
taste just like that of guava leaves decoction Surprisingly,
20% of the respondents answered that they are using guava leaves
because they find guava leaves effective in treating diarrhea,
while a remarkable percentage of the study population(16%)
did not have any comment regarding the use of guava leaves as medicine.
3. Results of the assessment on how the respondents would use the guava
leaves. Half of the respondents (50%) were unable to share how they
would use the guava leaves. While 19 individuals or
38% of the respondents answered that they would wash the
leaves first and boil such to come up with a decoction. Some others
or around 16 individuals or 12% of the respondents answered that
after washing they eat it directly the guava leaves without subjecting the
leaves anymore to heating.
4. Results of the fourth question is parallel to the findings in the 3rd
question on why the respondents would use guava leaves. Again
25 respondents comprising 50 % of the studied population did
not responded to the question on the efficacy of guava leaves. While
thirteen (13) persons or 16% of the respondents said that they have
tested and proven the effectiveness of guava leaves in
treating diarrhea, while 6 or 12% observed that after taking guava
leaves, diarrhea will disappear after a few minutes. While out of the 50
respondents there were 2 (4%) individuals who said that the pain will
be gone after few minutes in spite of the bitter taste.
Conclusion
From the findings of the study , the researchers found out that most of the
respondents are teenagers. They use artificial medicines compared to herbal
medicines. The residents of Ubaldo Laya prefer to use such artificial medicine
for it alleviates their diarrheas as quick as possible according to them. Although
artificial medicines contain side effects. residents of Ubaldo Laya chose to
risk. They chose to use medicinal drugs like loperamide and diatabs because it
does not take a long time to lessen the pain that is brought by diarrhea. They just
have to drink the capsule and wait for it to heal their diarrhea. Unlike from
herbal medicines like guava leaves which can cause hassle to them because they
still have to wash the guava leaves and boil it in the water to alleviate
their diarrhea and also according to them they don’t like it’s taste because it
tastes bitter.
Recommendation
Based on the findings of this study, the researchers recommend:
To the Students
The students may read this research to be updated about using guava
leaves as an alternative medicine for diarrhea.
To the Community
They may inform that guava leaves nowadays is less effective in treating
diarrhea.
To the Future Researchers
Future researchers may conduct another research related to this topic,
so that they may be able to understand, strengthen, and put extension to
this particular topic.
