SCHOOL PROJECT

CULTIVATION AND PROCESSING OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

FOURTH YEAR EGB

Day by day, human beings are affecting their health with climate changes; pandemics, respiratory and dermatological diseases are
increasing in the region. The need to draw attention in this project to the importance of medicinal plants, involving the educational
community in the educational secrets of our grandparents.

This school project is established in the Province of Chimborazo, Alausí Canton, San Francisco de Sales Fiscomisional
Educational Unit, fourth grade students; with the purpose of growing medicinal plants such as Hierba Luisa, Hortiga, Chamomile,
Rue, Melissa, and then processing them, using domestic technology, reducing the risks of contamination that guarantee the care
of the environment and the health of consumers, offering a product with texture and pleasant appearance, thus linking us with the
community.

It is important to specify that the presentation and presentation of the project will be done by students in the
English Language.

SLOGAN:

NATURE IS A SOURCE OF LIFE, WE CARE FOR YOUR HEALTH THROUGH IT

1.
2. GOALS

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

With the execution of this project, Fourth Year students of Basic General Education learn to assume a true commitment to change
by taking care of their health through the good use of medicinal plants and the environment through ecological practices.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

> Identify actions that must be implemented in the proper management of medicinal plants.
> Guide students in the classification and proper use of medicinal plants.
> Integrate the management of medicinal plants with other areas.
> Establish documented processes on pest management and control .
> Encourage the student community about the importance of medicinal plants in our school nursery.
> Carry out activities in which we practice and use medicinal plants in our Institution.
> Recognize the medicinal plants most used by our grandparents in the Alausí canton.

> Classify medicinal plants according to their healing properties to guarantee better information to the community.
> Capture the medicinal plants most used by the community in a brochure, detailing their healing properties.
> Strengthen the traditional knowledge of the community, especially young people, so that they make appropriate use of the
healing power of the medicinal plants of our region.
 2 .- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Lately, a small change has been noticed on our planet since communities have become aware of the importance of naturopathic
medicine, it is necessary for them to know the benefits of plants and to grow them in their homes. There is still a long way to go
and this is why we choose to promote the use of medicinal plants for the health of our students. For this, the enthusiasm of
childhood must be presented, doing it in a natural and fun way, associating it with the areas of education of the Fourth Year EGB.
Let us remember that a medicinal plant is a resource whose part or extract is used in the treatment of some condition. It can be
supplied as a poultice and plaster, knowledge, compress, gargle, infusion, washes, steams and others.

HERBOLARRY.- is the science that studies the properties and healing powers of the great diversity of plants and herbs that
Mother Nature provides us.1

MEDICINAL PLANT.- It is a resource, part or extracts of which are used in the treatment of some condition.2

LAND PREPARATION.- It is a set of activities that aims to prepare a good planting bed, which ensures the germination and
emergence of the seed.

SOWING.- Sowing is an agricultural activity that consists of placing the seed in the ground. 3

CULTIVATION.- It is the practice of sowing seeds in the ground and carrying out the necessary work to obtain fruits
from them. 4

ORGANIC FERTILIZER.- It is a fertilizer that comes from animals, plant remains of food, remains of edible mushroom crops or
another organic and natural source.

IRRIGATION.- It consists of providing water to the soil so that the vegetables have the water supply they need, thus promoting
their growth. It is used in agriculture and gardening.

HARVEST.- is based on the collection of fruits, seeds or vegetables from the fields at the time of year when they are ripe. The
harvest marks the end of a season's growth or the end of the cycle of a particular fruit.

PRODUCTIVE PROCESS.- Productive chain is the set of operations necessary to carry out the production of a good or service, which occur in
a planned manner, and produce a change or transformation of materials, objects or systems.

DRYING.- Using the sun and the wind to prevent deterioration has been practiced since ancient times. 5

LIST OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

OREGANO: (Origanumvulgare), is an aromatic perennial herbaceous plant of the Origanum genus, widely used in Mediterranean
cuisine. It is the leaves of this plant that are used as a condiment, both dried and fresh, although dried they have much more flavor
and aroma.

Aloe Vera: (Aloe) Aloe vera is gentle and refreshing on the skin and also provides relief for some digestive and urinary problems. It
is also a very attractive plant to decorate.

Melissa: (Melissa officinalis) Lemon balm is one of the most used herbs.
It should never be missing in the orchard or garden due to its pleasant aroma and the varied uses it has: fragrant, condiment and
medicinal plant.

1http://bioenherbalplus.mxver.net , Pag. 1
2 http://definicion.mx/plantas-medicinales
3 http://www.itson.mx/micrositios/plazas/administrativas/Documents/AGO_2014/siembra%20%282%29%20AGOSTO%202014.pdf
4 www.definicionabc.com/general/cultivo.php
5 .wikipedia.org/wiki
BOLDO: (Peumusboldus) Boldo is a plant highly valued for its medicinal effects, and since the beginning of the last century, it has
received the attention of naturalists and scientists. Currently, the use of boldo is widespread in many places in the world, since it
has proven healing properties, which are also exceptional, since it has, at the same time, alkaloids, essential oils

PLANT: (Plantagomajor) Juice: (To heal wounds and soothe earaches). The juice is extracted by crushing a handful of fresh
leaves and squeezing them. Then, they are passed through a sieve or clean cloth. Infusion:
(For colds). It is prepared by adding boiled water to one large leaf or three small ones. Let it rest and sweeten with honey. The
dose is two or three hot cups.
Cooking:
(For colds and to heal wounds). Boil a handful of dry leaves in two cups of water for 15 minutes. It is strained and used to wash
wounds and to gargle.
Ointments:
(To heal wounds, ulcers and also hemorrhoids)
The juice is obtained from a handful of leaves and mixed with three heaped tablespoons of solid Vaseline or lard.
It is left to soak 100 g of the dry plant in half a liter of alcohol for a week. It is filtered and mixed, heating the filtered substance in a
water bath, with 500 grams of Vaseline.
Washes:
(To heal wounds and treat conjunctivitis). With the water from an infusion or a decoction, soak a clean cloth or cotton and clean
the wound.

CHAMOMILE Chamomile is used in childhood ailments such as stomach cramps, middle ear infections and diarrhea. It is essential
to relieve determination discomfort in babies. It is useful in treating ailments that affect women and children. The antispasmodic
action is particularly effective against stomach pain, intestinal pain, and gallbladder attacks. cramps during menstruation, facial
neuralgia, toothache, tension headaches and insomnia .

ANISE, anise has stomachic, carminative qualities – to relieve gas, antispasmodic and sedative – it is ideal for relieving cases of
gastritis. In fact, green anise is considered one of the best natural carminatives there is. One of the main compounds that act
beneficially on digestion, favoring stomach processes, is atenol, which, together with bisolobene, favors the digestion of food. *It
also has expectorant properties, anti-inflammatory and antitussive principles. Therefore, it helps the lungs get rid of excess
secretions, reduce inflammation in case of bronchitis as well as cough.

RUE. Uses in Traditional Popular Medicine: Rue is widely known by our people and they use it with great faith and wisdom in the
treatment of colic, nerves, worm attacks, headaches and earaches. Chemical Composition of Rue: Scientific studies show us the
compounds and substances contained in the Rue plant and which are what give it its medicinal properties. . The essential oil is
used to soothe pain. The routine reduces hair fragility. It has stimulating and stomach tonic properties. It is considered

emmenagogue and calming, but it has contraindications. Rue as a medicine: It has been proven that Rue has properties for: ⇒
Ear infections ⇒ For colic ⇒ For nerves ⇒ For worm attacks ⇒ For headaches and earaches. For stomach pains ⇒ For
menstrual delays Intestinal infusion: Pour 1 tablespoon of rue leaves into 1 cup of cold water, and let it rest for 1 day. Filter,
sweeten with honey and drink. Use Parts Forms of preparation Application and medicinal dosage used Leaf Pain INFUSION:
dissolve 1 tablespoon of fresh leaf Adults: take 1 cup, 3 head, chopped, or 1 tablespoon of ground dry leaf, 1 times a day, for 7
days. fever cup with boiling water. Cover and leave to rest Children: half the dose for 5 minutes. Heat of sight, Leaf
MACERATION: Dissolve 5 chopped palms in ½ Bath the patient, or spray the parasites guaro bottles before going to bed and then
shelter him. Ear pain TACO sheet: heat 1 palm and wrap it in a cloth Apply tacos (dressings) on the skin. ear, until the pain calms

The most common forms of medicinal use of plants are decoctions and infusions. The infusion is prepared by pouring boiling water
over an appropriate quantity of leaves, flowers, roots and bark prepared for this purpose; It should be taken preferably after meals;
It can be taken hot or cold and repeated two or three times a day. The appropriate doses for each age must be taken into account.
The effect of these properties depends to a certain extent on the way in which the part of the plant that wants to be used is
prepared. There are plants whose products are for external use and others for internal use.
 3 .- IMPORTANCE

The school nursery is an excellent resource for converting educational centers into places that enable mostly urban students to
have multiple experiences about their natural and rural environment, understand the relationships and dependencies we have with
it, and put
in practice attitudes and habits of environmental care and responsibility; interesting experiences for the development of
fundamental capabilities in Environmental Education.

Our school nursery is a new, living and changing environment; and offering positive values to promote, integrating and developing
capacities, attitudes, skills, techniques, etc. For the benefit and conservation of the environment and trying to promote more
responsible, critical, supportive, tolerant and nature-loving citizens.

This project is very important since through it, we want our institution to have a nursery of medicinal plants and we benefit from
them, also motivate and make the students and the community aware of the usefulness of plants.

This project aims to become a contribution to the educational community of our school, and to all those who may have access to
this material, regarding this trend of correct use of the healing power of nature. People who have access to this material will be
able to find the best-known herbs and plants of our region with their different medicinal uses and a brief botanical explanation of
each of them. Some practical experiences are also incorporated, compiled from people who have lived them, and who have
proven to be very effective at the time when we do not have a doctor who is required. In short, our Project that we are presenting
is a contribution to the knowledge of natural medicine and its possibilities in the field of prevention and health improvement.

4 .- VALUES AND COMMITMENTS

School nurseries constitute a learning platform, they are a tool for the education of students and their families, both in urban and
rural areas. In addition, they help to improve the countless strategies in the process that is developed in teaching-learning, which
should become a priority of the learning axes.

1 .- Basically the proposal consists of a pedagogical component that has the following aspects:

• Area
• Basic Activities
• Conceptual Contents (Knowledge)
• Procedural Contents (Know-How)
• Attitudinal Contents (Knowing How to Be)
• Specific Competencies to Develop
• Evaluation criteria
2 .- A brochure that will contain the most used plants in our region and their healing properties

PEDAGOGICAL COMPONENT
CULTIVATION AND PROCESSING OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
FOURTH YEAR EGB

CONTENTS SPECIFIC
COMPETENCES
AREAS ACTIVITIES
PROCEDIMENTAL (KNOW- ATTITUDINAL (KNOW
CONCEPTUAL (KNOW) HOW TO DO) HOW TO BE)
 Care, conservation and
Field trips and practices Plants concept protection of medicinal
ID and plants
Bibliographic research To stimulate he
classification of medicinal
Interviews Conferences Floor process of
plants Solidarity in the face of cognitive learning in
Games Stories
Water community health the
Collection of problems students Generate
experiences of the
knowledge in
SCIENCES community
the students to
NATURAL
through of
Group work for the Agricultural
research and
process, Sacado,
discoveries Stimulatethe
scientific, investigative
Preparation of covers for
and decision-making
wrappers
capacity in children

CONTENTS COMPETENCES
AREAS ACTIVITIES SPECIFIC
 PROCEDIMENTAL (KNOW- ATTITUDINAL (KNOW
CONCEPTUAL (KNOW) HOW TO DO) HOW TO BE)
Develop he
Relations between
-Group work The resources Preparation of tables to record interest by he
atmosphere and he
natural and he time of planting, work of the daily
man
bibliographical inquiries economic growth cultivation and environment of the boy
Belonging to
harvest and girl since the school
the
Simulations He Floor, playground offers a
territory and his
Conferences importance and Drying of the living laboratory
community
components floors
SOCIAL STUDIES I respect to the
Learn to choose
nature and his
alternatives ask
around
questions and
Participation in the
reflect about
defense, conservation,
the different
protection of traditions for
experiences
healing of the
diseases

CONTENTS SPECIFIC
COMPETENCES
AREAS ACTIVITIES
PROCEDIMENTAL (KNOW- ATTITUDINAL (KNOW
CONCEPTUAL (KNOW) HOW TO DO) HOW TO BE)
Operations Management of Tables with Develop in children the
Basic information about the crop Critical attitude towards ability to handle graphic
Games Tabulation of data on sick the relationships tables
Resolution of people established between
Issues
songs environment and man Analyze data and make
Bar graphs on treatments Care of the tabulations with bars
Calculation
Calculations of medicinal plants that are
MATH diseases with Strengthen his
planted at school
medicinal plants Direct Responsibility in the responsibility in the care
observation management of the land of medicinal plants
area, number of
floors and
students that
participate

CONTENTS SPECIFIC
COMPETENCES
AREAS ACTIVITIES
PROCEDIMENTAL (KNOW- ATTITUDINAL (KNOW
CONCEPTUAL (KNOW) HOW TO DO) HOW TO BE)
Ecological Campaign Active participation in Recognize and
Botanical Dissemination of Oral and he cluster sort out the
Communication of Written Messages to the ecological medicinal different floors
the Community Interest by the medicinal and his
Projects
Medicinal plants Description and creation of the mini importance in he
Nurseries of
representation of naturist nursery Timely environment Strengthen
LANGUAGE AND Medicinal Plants Plant Agromophology experiences contributions from your reading by consulting
LITERATURE Bibliographical
sow, adoption and family's health status material about
Research
Floor maintenance of the Stake in medicinal plants
Dramatization
nursery of floors acts of family calamity
Water medicinal
Vocabulary Management

5. RESOURCES, RESPONSIBLE AND STRATEGIC ALLIES

Institutional Coordinator
Teachers Project Executors Students of the Fourth
Year EGB Parents

HUMANS
Land Area
Gardening Tools Medicinal Plant Seeds Organic
Fertilizer
 WORK MEANS Water
Filter paper
Photographs
Consultations
Internet
Tables for recording activities

6.- RESULTS

The favorable results of this project are very useful and important since the students will learn the uses of the medicinal plants
found in our environment and also because the institution will have a nursery of medicinal plants with which the student
community and the canton will benefit. Alausi.

With this research, students and the community will have the opportunity to learn, recognize everything about medicinal plants

and develop tea bags obtained from these plants .

Main expected results:

Short term: create a feeling of ownership among the children towards the school nursery, so that they take care of it and keep it

in good condition.

Medium term: beautification of the institution by using plants in a creative way.

Long term: that the plants be used for the preparation of food and medicine and the school population in general. Let the children

learn how to prepare some of these plants and be able to replicate them in the future to alleviate any discomfort.

MO JANUA FEBRUAR MARCH APRIL

NTH RY MONTHNOVEMBER
Y DECEMBER

SCHEDULE WEEK 1 2 3 4 1 23 4
ACTIVITY

Socialization of the project Cultivation

x x x
and processing of medicinal plants
Project promotion.
x x

Formation of work teams x x

Conferences on medicinal plants x

Meeting with representatives x

 SCHEDULE WEEK
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4
ACTIVITY
Soil preparation x x x x

Planting process x x

Subscription process x x
x
Crop care x x x x x x x x

MO MAY JUNE
SCHEDULE WEEKNTH
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
ACTIVITY
Organic fumigation x x x x

Presentation of Finished Work x