New Project Question:
What are the top five or ten plants used on a daily basis in Tonga? What are they used for? How are they used? Do they have the same popularity in all areas of the kingdom? How are they grown?
Project Question
What are the top five or ten plants used on a daily basis in Tonga? What are they used for? How are they used? Do they have the same popularity in all areas of the kingdom? How are they grown?
Project Question
What plants are used for which different maladies in Tonga and how does the plant function? If possible, what is the active ingredient in each plant?
25 Questions
1. What kinds of plants do Tongans use for which illnesses/injuries?
2. Which of these can I use on a regular basis or recommend to my family?3. What kind of plants are used for birth?
4. How are these plants administered?
5. What kind of plants are used for burial?
6. How are these plants used?
7. Which of these plants are symbolic and which have medicinal importance?
8. What percent of the medicine practiced on the island is considered traditional?
9. What percent is considered western?
10. What kind of interaction is there between the natural healers and certified doctors? Is the relationship friendly?
11. Is natural healing a hereditary occupation?
12. What parts of different plants are used for what?
13. What are the active ingredients of these plants?
14. Where do these plants grow the best?
15. What plants are the most popular when it comes to everyday health?
16. How many plant species are native to the islands of Tonga?
17. How has the plant population changed over the course of Tonga's history?
18. Have the non indigenous plants had a positive or negative effect on the botany?
19. What invasive species are there, if any?
20. How heavy are the effects of pollution on the island?
21. What is the interaction between plants and animals like? How can this contribute to research on medicinal plants?
22. Do animals use the active ingredients in plants for the same things that humans do?
23. Are plants used primarily for food, or is there an even distribution between food and medicine?
24. What plant ingredients are exported? Which ones have to be imported?
25. Is natural healing something practiced and understood by people of all ages?
