“Preferencia del tratamiento convencional frente al tratamiento con plantas medicinales en adultos mayores del Barrio Bellavista- cantón Latacunga”

Abstract

To inquire about the preference of conventional treatment in front of the treatment with medicinal plants that older adults of Barrio Bellavista-Cantón Latacunga have, with the sole purpose of making known which of these treatments is the most used by the residents of this neighborhood.

To know the preferences of the people about these two types of treatments a questionnaire was carried out in the same one that was applied to 120 older adults that live in this aforementioned neighborhood.

Of all the people surveyed, it can be stated that the preference of conventional treatment over medicinal plants is 50/50, since there are people who have great faith in medicinal plants either because of their easy access, because of their low cost or because this is a tradition passed down from generation to generation; However, conventional treatment is not left aside since certain types of illnesses or health problems have to be treated by specialists and conventional medicines.