ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 pandemic period has spread across almost all countries in the world has resulted a significant negative impact on various socio-economic aspects, including on large-scale and small-scale livestock business activities. This paper aims to present a study of challenges in developing small-scale farms carried out at grassroots level communities affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in North Sulawesi Indonesia. The method used in this study was a meta-analysis pattern approach. The cases of covid-19 infection in this area began to emerge early on March of this year, where data until early May 2020 showed a number of people who were confirmed positive Covid-19 had reached 45 people. The government as an authority holder in North Sulawesi Province does not apply yet a lockdown. This temporary policy gives farmers the opportunity to move and continue developing their livestock activities in order to support the fulfillment of livestock products in local market, while on the other hand, feed row material tended to increase in the market. The recommendation to keep a physical distance did not significantly affect the activities to the small-scale animal farms because in general the workers were family who were the same people in a household.
ABSTRACT
Most of the Covid 19 victims were aged 50-70 years because at that age they had complications with degenerative diseases. Curing degenerative diseases by utilizing traditional medicinal plants to increase resistance to Covid 2019 infection can heal itself into a new breakthrough. It is hoped that the use of anti-degenerative supplements will also cure Covid 2019. Therefore, the development of this anti-degenerative supplement is very important as an immunomodulator, especially during the Covid 2019 outbreak. Cholesterol in the blood is needed by the body, but consumption of foods that contain excessive saturated fat will increase. cholesterol in the blood, causing hypercholesterolemia which is also the cause of plaque in the coronary heart. This study aims to analyze the potential of several traditional medicinal plants by providing a combination of tea with Pasote (Dysphania ambrosioides), Gedi (Abelmoschus manihot) and Tapak dara (Catharanthus roseus) blood cholesterol levels on blood cholesterol levels of white rats (Rattus novergicus). The research method used is experimental. The mice were induced with high fat for 2 weeks, then their blood cholesterol content was measured with Lipidpro, then treated with single steeping water and a combination of steeping water accompanied by negative and positive controls. The results showed that cholesterol levels increased after administration of fat (initial cholesterol) and after treatment the cholesterol content decreased in all treatments. The results of statistical tests indicate that the reduction in cholesterol levels in the treatment is significantly or significantly different at the 95% confidence level. The highest reduction in cholesterol content was in the cholesterol levels of white rats that had been given a combination of steeping water of tapak dara, gedi and pasote leaf powder to 44.61% of the control, while the lowest reduction was the combination of Pasote and Tapak dara which was only 0.9% of the control. The combination of Pasote, Gedi and Tapak Dara has the potential to be used as an anti-degenerative supplement, especially for reducing high cholesterol levels in patients with hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.