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Applying a Community Garden Model to Conserve the Medicinal Plants

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On the occasion of Congress of the Communist Party, the local government delivers everyone, each community, make one work such as: an opposition of blooded water, an environmental hygiene, everyone canalizes, a baby garden, a flowers garden, a botanical garden, a garden of ornamental trees, local medical garden, the women produce something, women have animal husbandry. Here, the government wants to make one garden of medicinal trees and they deliver me who build the community garden in local area of the 2 downtown, ward 10 district 6, Ho Chi Minh City, I must find some trees that have a medical utility, plant to cure the diseases for the people and the students have a sample to learn. To make this work, I must go many places to prepare goodly. This is a necessary work. If we have a medical garden, that is to say we have an clear aim such as: a model garden for the 2 downtown of the ward 10, while the other ward does not have because the fund of soil is rare, and the people know the medical trees to cure the general diseases. Besides, we have the documents to teach, too. It is important that we keep the good race, protect the precious race. And everyone wants the climate which becomes goodly, it is agreeable, cool…Within a U figure garden of size 9mx6m, I collected about 73 medicinal species to plant. Most of these plants had use as a food plant to improve the health in local region. We collected and analyzed quality of water, soil, we have a choice to plant in garden. This is useful and necessary work to do. If everyone has soil, it will good to plant medicinal garden.

Published in Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering (Volume 13, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.abb.20251302.13
Page(s) 32-37
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Keywords

Garden, Student, Sample, Race, Specie, Diseases

1. Introduction
Formerly to now, there are many kinds of garden such as: a vegetable garden, a garden of trees, a garden of orchid, a forest garden, an orchard, a flower garden, a pleasure garden, a garden and rice-field, a botanical garden, especially a local medical garden, that is a place, conserve many precious races . A garden can improve a micro- climate . A constribution one medicinal garden is very necessary and useful in order to use theses trees, it helped to the live of men.
Everyone forms the particular garden. Example:” a college, a hospital, a hotel… Everyone did not put the garden in the ward, therefore, it hasn’t the author who studied about this issue. We think that we must have many medicinal plants, medicinal gardens.
2. Materials and Methods
1) Materials: The soil sample in the downtown 2, ward 10, district 6, Ho Chi Minh City; Seed:
a. We did not buy, we found seeds and trees at the other places, households of men; Water; The organic fertilizers.
b. Time of research: since October of 2020 to October of 2021.
c. Place of research: The local medicinal garden is according to the local area of the downtown 2, ward 10, district 6, Ho Chi Minh City.
2) Methods:
+ In the nature: we saw and asked the people, the local area. We observed the households,
Researched for the model of trees. We went around, many places of districts. We classified. We prepared a medical garden weeded wild herbs and we barbed wire fence, planted and put name of trees, watered, took care of garden, manured a garden. At last, we made the lists of trees names.
About the fertilizer we use only the organic fertilizer such as: wild herbs, algae, biological fertilizer, powder lime, ash of husk
+ In the laboratory: we analyzed water and soil sample.
3) Process making:
We barbed wire fence, found the big stones, analyzed the soil, water samples to plant. We arranged, divided many parts according to the diseases such as: a headache, a hypotension, a hypertension, a cancer, a backache, an influenza, a belly – ache, a fever, a digestion, an aperient … Then, we put the fertilizers in order improve the soil, found the races, the precious trees, a good kind. Then, we planted who medical trees, we took care of them. At last, we made a list name with a popular name, a scientific name, family and sticked them.
Figure 1. A diagram of local medical garden X, O: Medical trees.
Figure 2. A photo of the local medical garden.
At the door, everyone planted the paper flower, Champax (Ochna entegerrima (Lour) Merr)
A garden: figure of U, it is 10 meters for a length, 9 meters for a width. In a space of a garden, included 3 stages:
Stage A: 0 – 20cm: stage was near the soil: including Chili pepper, Ginger, Lemon grass, Turmeric…
Stage B: 20cm – 1m: including: Indian mallow, Acid lime, white Mulberry.
Stage C: 1 – 3m: including Guava, Indian Mulberry, Paper flowers, water apple
Figure 3. Water Spinach.
Figure 4. Chili peppper.
3. Results and Discussion
Table 1. Result analyzed of water in the local medical garden

N0

Place

Kind of water

pH

Color (Cobalt)

Degree dirty (F.T.U)

D.O (mg/l)

Organic (mg/l)

NH4+ (mg/l)

Fe (mg/l)

NO2- (mg/l)

NO3- (mg/l)

SO42- 4 (mg/l)

PO43-(mg/l)

1

Downtown 2

Machine water

6.42

< 5

0

3.46

0.90

0

0.15

0

0

12.0

0

2

Downtown 2

Well water

5.93

< 5

0

3.34

0.50

0

0.20

0

0

24.0

0

3

Downtown 2

Pond water

6.11

15

62.0

2.7

2.4

1.2

12

0.04

5.0

16.0

0

4

Limitation values *

6.5-8.5

1.0

2.0

2.0 – 6.0

1.0

0.3

0.5

0.05

0.05

≤ 0.5

≤ 0.1

Note: *According to Vietnam standard/ National Technical Regulation on the limits of heavy metals contamination in food (Vietnamese Technical Regulation 8-2:2011/Medicinal Ministry) .
In Table 1: 3 columns of water were low, sour, water of dirty was by garbage.
1) Machine water: pH was low, color, D.O, organic substance, SO42- were high.
2) Well water: pH was low, sour, the parameters can accept
3) Pond water: degree of color, of dirty, NO3-, SO42- were high, therefore we did not drink, use because it was bad, unclean.
Table 2. Result analyzed of soil sample

Symbol

pHKCl(1:5)

pHH2O (1:5)

EC(1:5) (μS/cm)

N total (%)

K2O (%)

P2O5 (%)

Humus (%)

Fe (mg/100g)

Al3+ (mg/100g)

Ca2+ (mg/100g)

Mg2+ (mg/100g)

SO42- (mg/100g)

Sand

Clay

Flesh

1A (0-25 cm)

5.31

4.42

44

0.206

0.037

0.146

6.01

121.40

27.01

5.35

2.19

1.32

10

48

42

1B (25-50 cm)

5.10

4.29

50

0.173

0.045

0.084

4.59

151.51

63.21

3.17

1.69

1.35

8

50

42

1C (50-80 cm)

3.98

3.94

795

0.170

0.052

0.105

6.29

151.90

10.66

2.63

1.97

223.8

18

48

34

Limitation values *

6.0

6.5-8.5

10-20

0.1-0.15

0.3-1.5

0.06-0.08

2.0-4.0

0.5

800

4.0-6.0

2.0-3.0

1.0 – 2.0

-

-

-

Note: *According to Vietnam standard/ National Technical Regulation on the limits of heavy metals contamination in food (Vietnamese Technical Regulation 8-2: 2011/Medicinal Ministry) .
In Table 2: The soil had pH low, sour soil, the nutrient at the deep area was low, Fe, Al: high.
There are many stone and big stone, trees developed difficultly.
Contents making: A choice of some reasonable trees in permitting space, medicinal
trees, we planted trees was according to the curing area that we sticked (popular name, scientific name, family), we found 73 names of medicinal trees such as :
Table 3. Trees having in the garden, downtown 2, ward 10, district 6 .

N0

Vietnamese names

Scientific names

Families

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

1

Kiến cò = Bạch hạc

Rhinacanthus nasatus (L) Kurf

Acanthaceae

2

Na = Mãng cầu ta

Annona squamosa L.

Annonaceae

3

Huyết dụ

Cordyline fruticosa var tricolor Hort

Agavaceae

4

Nanh heo

Sansevieria cylindrica Bojer

Agavaceae

5

Lưỡi cọp (hổ)

Sansevieria trifascinta Praik

Agavaceae

6

Dền gai

Amaranthus spinosus L

Amaranthaceae

7

Rau má Nhật

Centella asiatica (L) Urb

Apiaceae

8

Bạch chỉ

Angena damunca honmdenth & Hook

Apiaceae = Umbelliferae

9

Đại = Sứ

Plumeria rubra L.

Apocynaceae

10

Huỳnh anh

Allamanda cathartica L

Apocynaceae

11

Ngũ gia bì

Acanthopanax aculeatus Seem

Araliaceae

12

Đinh lăng

Polyscias fruticosa (L.) Harms

Araliaceae

13

Vạn niên thanh = Trầu bà

Aglaonema cochinchinensis Engler

Araceae

14

Thuốc cứu = Ngãi cứu

Artemisia vulgaris L

Asteraceae

15

Từ bi = Đại bi

Blumea balsamifera (L.) DC

Asteraceae

16

Cỏ mực = Cỏ lọ nồi

Eclipta prostrata L

Asteraceae

17

Lức

Pluchea indica (L) Lees

Asteraceae

18

Cỏ hôi = Yên bạch

Eupatorium odoratum L

Asteraceae

19

Mồng tơi

Basella rubra L

Basellaceae

20

Thanh long (ruột đỏ)

Hylocereus undatus (Haw) Britt & Brown

Cactaceae

21

Trường sinh = Sống đời

Kalanchoe pinnata Pers

Crassulaceae

22

Đu đủ

Carica papaya L

Caricaceae

23

Dây giung = Sử quân tử

Quisqualis indica L

Combretaceae

24

Khoai lang

lpomoea batatas (L.) Poir

Convolvulaceae

25

Rau muống

Ipomoea aquatica Forssk

Convolvulaceae

26

Lẻ bạn

Tradescantia discolor L'Hérit

Commelinaceae

27

Rau trai

Commelina diffusa Burm. f

Commelinaceae

28

Bí đỏ = Bí rợ

Cucurbita pepo L

Cucurbitaceae

29

Cỏ cú

Cyperus rotundus L

Cyperaceae

30

Khoai ngọt

Dioscorea alata L

Dioscoreaceae

31

Bồ ngót = rau ngót

Sauropus androgynus (L) Merr

Euphorbiaceae

32

Cỏ sữa lá to

Euphorbia hirta L

Euphorbiaceae

33

Chó đẻ = diệp hạ châu

Phyllanthus urinaria L

Euphorbiaceae

34

Muồng trâu

Cassia alata L

Fabaceae

35

Biếc cây

Clitoria laurifolia Poir

Fabaceae

36

Húng quế

Ocimum basilicum L

Lamiaceae = Labiatae

37

Húng lũi

Mentha aquatica L

Lamiaceae = Labiatae

38

Húng cây

Mentha arvensis L var. javanica (Bl) Hook.f

Lamiaceae = Labiatae

39

Nha đam = lô hội

Aloe vera (L) Burm.f

Liliaceae

40

Chỉ giáp hoa = nhuộm móng tay

Lawsonia inermis L

Lythraceae

41

Persea americana Mill

Lauraceae

42

Rau cần (tần) dày lá

Coleus amboinicus Lour

Lamiaceae = Labiatae

43

Đậu bắp

Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench

Malvaceae

44

Ké hoa đào

Urena lobata L

Malvaceae

45

Dâm bụt = bông bụp

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L

Malvaceae

46

Mắc cỡ = xấu hổ

Mimosa pudica L

Mimosaceae

47

Dâu tằm = tằm tang

Morus alba L

Moraceae

48

Huỳnh tinh

Maranta arundinnacea L

Marantaceae

49

Mận

Eugenia javanica Lam p.p.

Myrtaceae

50

Ổi

Psidium gujava L

Myrtaceae

51

Vối

Cleistocalyx nervosum DC Pham hoang

Myrtaceae

52

Sung

Ficus racemosa L

Moraceae

53

Lan

Dendrobium sp

Orchidaceae

54

Mai

Ochna integerima (Lour) Mess

Ochnaceae

55

Me đất nhỏ

Oxalis corniculata L

Oxalidaceae

56

Càng cua

Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth

Piperaceae

57

Bạch hoa xà

Plumbago zeylanica L

Plumbaginaceae

58

Rau sam = Sam

Portulaca oleracea L

Portulacaceae

59

Cau kiểng vàng

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens (Bory) Wendl

Palmae

60

Lá lốt = Lốt

Piper sarmentosum Roxb

Poaceae = Gramineae

61

Sả

Cymbopogon citratus (DC) Stapf

Poaceae = Gramineae

62

Cỏ mần chầu

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn

Poaceae = Gramineae

63

Nhãn lồng = Chùm bao

Passiflora foetida L

Passifloraceae

65

Dành dành

Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr

Rubiaceae

66

Nhàu

Morinda citrifolia L

Rubiaceae

64

Quít, cam, chanh

Citrus sp

Rutaceae

67

Nguyệt quới (quí)

Murraya paniculata (L) Jack

Rutaceae

68

Ớt

Capsicum frutescens L

Solanaceae

69

Nhãn

Dimocarpus longan Lour

Sapindaceae

70

Chôm chôm

Nephelium lappaceum L

Sapindaceae

71

Cách

Premna latifolia L

Verbenaceae

72

Gừng

Zingiber officinale Roscoe

Zingiberaceae

73

Nghệ

Curcuma domestica Valeton

Zingiberaceae

4. Conclusion
Generally, parameters of soil and water were average, we can adapt them in order to make the garden.
When we make this subject, although we did not have expenditures, it was costly, but it had value of big mind, and practical value, it raised a beautiful form, it is the environmental pollution of the air, the climate was cool , and having many botanical models for the schoolboy, students learned, it was a source of vegetables, it make many medicinal trees to cure the popular diseases , served the people while a source of soil was narrow in the center of city.
Abbreviations

pH

Potential of Hydrogen

N

Nitrogen

Fe

Ferrum, Iron

Al

Aluminum

Ca

Calcium

Mg

Magnesium

SO4

Sulfate

P2O5

Phosphor Pentoxide

K2O

Kali Oxide

Author Contributions
An Nguyen Thi Ngoc is the sole author. The author read and approved the final manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest
We declare no conflicts of interest.
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