Hypothesis / aims of study
Hypothesis/aims of study: Herbal Social Bricoleur is a type of entrepreneur that possesses the tacit knowledge of herbs by intervening at specific local situations in order to solve specific and episodic situations with limited resources. That type of entrepreneur becomes social when their work has become collective or societal in practice. Herbal bricoleur tends to work on a small scale with a limited, often local scope. Nocturnal enuresis (NE), or ‘bedwetting’ on its own is a form of night-time urinary incontinence occurring in younger children or adults. A diagnosis of (NE) can be socially turbulent and psychologically stressful for a child. The most common strategies used by parents to manage NE are waking the child during the night to use the bathroom and limiting the child’s water intake before going to bed. In some cases, behavioural or educational therapies for NE such as urotherapy or bladder retraining are widely accepted and considered as a mainstream treatment option for nonneurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction in children. Pharmacotherapy also plays an ancillary role. All these techniques were said to be ineffective to put an end to NE, this in essence justify the need for this study. Therefore, the study aimed to explain herbal social bricoleur knowledge of curing bed-wetting in children in Yoruba land of Nigeria. Hence, the study would divulge to the world the misconception of the impossibility of eliminating NE illnesses in children through herbal applications.
Study design, materials and methods
Study design, materials and methods: The study adopted explanatory research design to allow for deep understanding of the topic and made possible thorough information to be gathered for apprehension. The information needed were also collected and classified on NE through credible published articles.
Moreover, the study aimed to explain the procedural ways of preparing herbal medicines that can cure NE with the assurance of determining the efficacy of the herbal combination in the treatment of the diseases in children. The target population for this study were 10 children aged between 10 and 14 years old (males and females) who have NE using snow balling technique to get the respondents. Most importantly, the treatment required no laboratory preparation and usage. The data observation timeline is within a month.
The materials used were into two: (1.) Stem of local indigenous small banana, dry and burn to it to ashes and start leaking with palm oil. (2.) Medium big rat locally called Ohanran in yoruba language should be burnt with one solid alligator pepper to ashes. A ladder would be laid into the wall of the house, the respondent would bring along an open calabash with solid pap and water inside including little ashes of burnt rat/alligator pepper and climb the ladder to the middle. On getting to the middle of the ladder, the patient would start springle the combination inside the calabash and drink it finish. Once the respondent has finished drinking it, all would be well with him. The person would no longer do bedwetting again. This is applicable to both remedies.
Despite the availability of several therapies for Nocturnal Enuresis (NE) with none that were universally effective, this study was able to provide two herbal remedies sufficient enough that could put an end to respondents bedwetting illnesses which have provided an important contribution to the understanding of potential new treatments for this condition.
Results
Results and its Interpretation: NE was said to be caused by the loosening of external sphincter’s muscular tone due to moisture in the muscle fibers. Loose muscle cannot contract strongly on the bladder’s neck, so it fails to prevent the involuntary outflow of urine. Another cause of NE was attributed to bladder weakness which decreases the intrinsic natural power of bladder to hold urine during sleep which put both children and elderly at risk for urine incontinence. However, NE was seen as one of the frequently seen problems during childhood and therefore needs the most effective treatments.
Through literature review, it was found that few studies have investigated the utilization of different kind of plants in children with NE with little or no effects including the use of orthodox medicines or in combination of both types of remedies. However, it was amazing to have seen the efficacy in the use of the two types of herbal medicines used in this study. The irony of the two herbal medicines is that ones they are used, the NE would no longer happen again. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of these Yoruba traditional herbal remedies for the treatment of NE in children.
Interpretation of results
Results and its Interpretation: NE was said to be caused by the loosening of external sphincter’s muscular tone due to moisture in the muscle fibers. Loose muscle cannot contract strongly on the bladder’s neck, so it fails to prevent the involuntary outflow of urine. Another cause of NE was attributed to bladder weakness which decreases the intrinsic natural power of bladder to hold urine during sleep which put both children and elderly at risk for urine incontinence. However, NE was seen as one of the frequently seen problems during childhood and therefore needs the most effective treatments.
Through literature review, it was found that few studies have investigated the utilization of different kind of plants in children with NE with little or no effects including the use of orthodox medicines or in combination of both types of remedies. However, it was amazing to have seen the efficacy in the use of the two types of herbal medicines used in this study. The irony of the two herbal medicines is that ones they are used, the NE would no longer happen again. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of these Yoruba traditional herbal remedies for the treatment of NE in children.