Abstract
Natural substances once serve as the source of all drugs and medicinal agents, and higher plants provided most of these therapeutic entities. Herbs can be either medicinal (useful for treating health-related symptoms) or nutritional (adding vitamins and minerals to your diet). In Eastern traditional medicine the label tales has been applied to all knowledge of interest to women - fertility, birth, childcare - transmitted orally from one generation of women to the next. Traditional medicine usage in middle east population for day-to-day health care needs is close to 90%. Women and children form the bulk of the people reliant on herbal medicine. This study was undertaken to document how ethnomedical folklore aids childbirth in Palestine (specially in Al-Luban Alsharqia village) by conducting field surveys, discussions and interviews with the resource users (mothers) and health providers (traditional birth attendants). Health surveys revealed that over 80% of childbirths are conducted at home by using herbal remedies. Seventy-five plants have been recorded for usage in inducing labor and some of these plants may be oxytocic. There is toxicity levels and the unspecified dosages that may threaten the life of the unborn baby and the mother. It is not generally possible to separate adverse reaction from side effect.
