AS CEBU gears towards adapting traditional and alternatives in health management, three Sugbusog nurseries in Camotes Islands are growing different kinds of medicinal plants.
Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, who recently visited Camotes Islands, said she was awed with the many different herbal plants in the nurseries of Barangays Consuelo and Northern Poblacion in San Francisco town, and in Daan Secante in Tudela.
She said there are ginseng, lagundi, luy-a, duwaw, insulin plant, mayana, salimbangon, mansanitas, labana, law-at, syapo, pandansina, and calabash-miracle fruit, among many others. These plants are used to treat a variety of illnesses such as cough and colds, fever, diarrhea, high blood pressure, kidney problems, and diabetes.
Learning from the current pandemic, Garcia said she is determined to bring back traditional medicines and alternative healthcare in the province and is set to tie up with the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care for the training of barangay health workers.
Aside from the medicinal plants, the nurseries also boasted of various vegetables, native chickens, and a fishpond, Garcia said, adding, the nursery in Barangay Consuelo takes on the theme of Sugbusog Shipping Lines conceptualized based on the island’s Consuelo port.
“Ship ni siya tungod kay among gikuha kung unsa’y naa sa barangay nga makita nato asa ni-income ang barangay. So, among gitukma ang concept diin si Gov ang nagtimun sa among barko. Siya ang naghatag og kadasig nga mabuo ni namo,” Consuelo Barangay Captain Liesel Yuson said.
Yuson thanked Garcia for the Sugbusog program which helped her and her constituents provide food to their families at the height of the pandemic when they lost their livelihoods. “Dako kaayo ang kaayohan ang gidala ni Gov dinhi sa among barangay aning programa sa Sugbusog. Labi na jud sa panahon sa pandemya ang mga tawo walay trabaho. So karon nakat-on ang tanan sa pagpananom diin aron makahatag og pagkaon. Dako among pasalamat namo ni Gov kining Sugbusog program,” she said.
In Barangay Northern Poblacion, Garcia and Representative Duke Frasco harvested upland kangkong and pechay. Barangay Captain Ruel Fabroa said all vegetables in their nursery are for free. He said they will be giving seedlings to their constituents to encourage them to plant.
The governor expressed delight in seeing the healthy and bounty harvest of the nurseries. “Makapabayaw sa kasing-kasing sa tukmang kalipay nga magtan-aw niining inyong paningkamot. Mao gyud na ang makalipay naku. Maningkamot gyud ta kay nasayod ko ang Sugbuanon labi na taga Northern Poblacion maningkamot gyud, kugihan gyud,” she said. (Mylen Manto)
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