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Herbal Medicines : Malaysian Women’s Knowledge and Practice
Joint Authors
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-09-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study among Malay women admitted in the antenatal and postnatal ward to determine the prevalence and use of herbal medicines during pregnancy and elemental analysis in the most popular herbs.
A total of 460 women were surveyed.
Herbal medicine use during pregnancy was 34.3%, while 73% utilized herbal medicines during labor, because of a belief that it may shorten and ease labor.
The most commonly used herbal medicines in pregnancy were Anastatica hierochuntica L.
(60.1%) followed by coconut oil (35.4%).
The majority of women (89.2%) used only one type of herbal medicines and took one capsule/glass (38%) per day.
Herbal medicines use by pregnant women is largely unsupervised (81%), with most women getting information from their parents (60.7%) and buying the products directly from traditional midwives (32.2%) and 77% agreed upon its efficacy and safety.
From the 460 respondents, 89.8% women were in the low end of the herbs knowledge.
There was a significant difference found between knowledge score and income (P<0.05).
Microdiffraction analysis revealed significant presence of carbon, oxygen, silica, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, potassium, zinc, and iron that were found in Anastatica hierochuntica L.
and proved to have good benefits for pregnancy.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kim Sooi, Law& Lean Keng, Soon. 2013. Herbal Medicines : Malaysian Women’s Knowledge and Practice. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kim Sooi, Law& Lean Keng, Soon. Herbal Medicines : Malaysian Women’s Knowledge and Practice. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-472327
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kim Sooi, Law& Lean Keng, Soon. Herbal Medicines : Malaysian Women’s Knowledge and Practice. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-472327
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-472327