Herbal foods for the Elderly

Abstract

The objective of this research is 1) to study the wisdom heritage and knowledge of the herbal foods, 2) to manipulate the documents of the herbal foods and 3) to propagate the knowledge with community leader and public healthofficials. The target group for collecting data is 45 people of community leaders or el-ders from Bangkhen Youth Center,Donmeang Health Care Center at Bangkok and Tambon Bangtarad at Nonthaburi including 2 people of public health officials. The data collection instruments are consist of questionnaire on food data and satisfaction data in 5 levels. Statistical analysis involves collecting data, percentage and standard deviation. The results show that 1) the wisdom heritage and knowledge of the herbal foods consist the prin-ciple of Thai traditional medicine for health care, medicinal plants and herbal supplement foods. 2) De-scription of body elements that causes changing state of health or disease and menu of herbal foods for balance the body element. 3) Evaluation of satisfaction with description of body elements showed the overall satisfied in the best and for menu of herbal foods showed the overall satisfied in good.