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Socio-Economic Importance of Honey among Traditional Healers and Orthodox Practitioners in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria
The necessity for people’s adequate and quality as well as good health and standard of living for overall National development informed the main reason for the study on Socio-economic importance of honey among traditional healers and orthodox medical practitioners in Iwo Local Government Area, Osun State. A total of 105questionnaires wereadministered, while 91 were retrieved from the respondents. Various uses of honey were investigated both for personal consumption and medicinal purpose. The result shows that 41.8 % of the respondent use honey for multiple purpose, while 35.2% use honey mainly for medicinal purpose, 16.5% use it mainly as beverages, while the remaining 6.6% for use in treatments. The Chi Square Test showed a higher calculated value of 385.71 than the tabulated value of 21.026. This confirms a strong relationship between the use of honey and social life of Iwo people. The major constraints discovered was that Traditional healers do not exercise strict control on the quantity doses of honey used for different ailments. It is therefore recommended that both rural and urban dwellers should be sensitized about the use of honey, in order to encourage sustainable consumption for improvement of health status.
Keywords: Medicinal, orthodox, traditional, hone
Socio-Economic Importance of Honey among Traditional Healers and Orthodox Practitioners in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria
The necessity for people\u2019s adequate and quality as well as good
health and standard of living for overall National development informed
the main reason for the study on Socio-economic importance of honey
among traditional healers and orthodox medical practitioners in Iwo
Local Government Area, Osun State. A total of 105questionnaires were
administered, while 91 were retrieved from the respondents. Various
uses of honey were investigated both for personal consumption and
medicinal purpose. The result shows that 41.8 % of the respondent use
honey for multiple purpose, while 35.2% use honey mainly for medicinal
purpose, 16.5% use it mainly as beverages, while the remaining 6.6% for
use in treatments. The Chi Square Test showed a higher calculated value
of 385.71 than the tabulated value of 21.026. This confirms a strong
relationship between the use of honey and social life of Iwo people.
The major constraints discovered was that Traditional healers do not
exercise strict control on the quantity doses of honey used for
different ailments. It is therefore recommended that both rural and
urban dwellers should be sensitized about the use of honey, in order to
encourage sustainable consumption for improvement of health status
Effect of Light Intensities on Growth Performance of Tetrapleura tetraptera Seedlings Schum. (Thonn.)
The study assessed the effect of varying light intensities and optimum
percentage of sunlight favourable for raising Tetrapleura tetraptera
seedlings. The light intensity was measured through photometer. The
experiment was subjected to a control without wire mesh(T1) and three
other treatments (T2, T3 and T4) covered with different layers of black
wire mesh with 99.5%, 75%, 49.8% and 25% light intensities
respectively. Each of the treatments was replicated six times in a
completely randomized design. The plant height, leaf production and
stem diameter were all monitored for 12 weeks. Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA) was employed and the means separated using Least Significant
Difference (LSD). The results showed that the significance effect (P =
\u3b10.05) was only observed in the seedlings height of
Tetrapleuratetrapteraseedlings. However, the mean values obtained for
all the parameters considered revealed the treatment 1(i.e. 99.8% wire
mesh) was observed to be the best performing treatment. For the plant
height, mean value ranged between 13.09 cm and 16.8 cm, a range from
0.22cm to 0.28mm was recorded for stem girth while the mean values
between 22 and 27 were obtained for number of leaves among the
treatments. It may be concluded from the study, that light intensity of
100% i.e without interference should be used for the growth and
development as well as production of Tetrapleura tetraptera seedlings
in the nursery