Pagdikta (The dictation): the meanings in Filipino mothers’ experience of using herbal plants in the management of their children’s fever

• Main Authors: Leocadio, Michael C., Jabai, Alrajii C., Rul, Jenylyn A., Sanche, Louise Anne D., Sauler, Rica Gertrude T., Tan, Apple Mae A., Tapispisa, Jopheth N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2011
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3551/1/special%2520issue%25202011_24.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3551/; http://www.ijphr.ukm.my/

One of the main indicators of an illness is fever and it is managed in different ways by mothers based on their existing culture. After a health diagnosis, dominant fever management of a certain community with inaccessible health center was the use of herbal plants despite easy access to relat...