Assessment of trends to traditional treatments by using Herbal medicine in rural areas

Nowadays a significant volume of the country's population lives in rural areas. Since the villages are poor, pay attention to health (individual, familyal and environmental) is very important. The villagers according to native medicine knowledge adopted methods for prevention and treatment that have been changed by modern medicin and therefore the level of utilization of native medicine in rural areas was reduced. But in existing conditions despite the scientific advances in medical sciences, the tendency towards herbal medicine is arising because of many chemical damages of the drugs. Accordingly, the present study is carried out to measure the degree of tendency of traditional treatments towards herbal medicine in the rural areas of Zebarkhan that is significantly arising in recent years so that the production, gathering and packiny of these plants has been economically viable.
The methodology of the study is based on the descriptive-analytic method in which data collection is carried outthrough library-based research and survey research with questionnaires being distributed among people over 20 in the villages of the rural district of Zebar Khan in Nishapur. Based on Cochran’s theorem, the volume of the sample size is 129. For operationalization of this study we extracted 15 main indexs and by using field findings we gathered data in the samples. Then we analysed this data by statistical methods.
The results showed that the tendency to use herbal medicine is higher among women than men. According to the test, the correlation between the components of the tendency towards herbal medicine points to insignificant relation between personal characteristics such as monthly income, insurance and education with espect to the tendency of the villagers towards herbal medicine. Additionally, the T-Test results indicate that all the tendency indices have been set above average and that there is a significant relation between the level of significance of the variables that show the tendency to consumption and the tendency to use herbal medicine.
Based on these findings it is emphsised on the villagers’ high tendency towards herbal medicine and its causes is involved side effects of medications, low incomes and etc. so due to the growing use of herbal medicines, it is better to provide the necessary educations for awaring about production, save and consume of these plants to villagers.