informative lesson

2. OPENING PRAYER

3. Warming up!
Invent product and list down five
reasons why consumers should
buy it. Your goal is to get the
consumer’s attention and avail of
your product.

5. QUACKERIES AND
ALTERNATIVE HEALTH
MODALITIES

6. OBJECTIVES
•explain the different kinds of
Complementary and Alternative health care
modalities,
•analyze the effects of Complementary and
Alternative Medicine,
•report fraudulent health services.

7. 1. DON’T FALL FOR QUACKERY!
People often want quick and easy solutions to
their problems, and so many falls blindly to false
promises.

8. QUACKERIES
- is the act and process of benefiting from other people,
through monetary or non-monetary means while
assuring them a false claim in return.

9. TYPES OF QUACKERY
1. MEDICAL QUACKERY
medical quackery is essentially lying to
patients and their families to believe in healthcare
solutions that do not hold or are yet to be proven
and tested.

10. 2. NUTRITION QUACKERY
- Nutrition quackery is providing misinformation about the
nutritional value and health effects of food and products. They
often claim a simple, fast, and easy solution to health problems
by including a single product or nutrient into one’s diet.

11. 3. DEVICE QUACKERY
- device quackery is the telling and distribution of products that
claim to be effective in battling one or all health concerns. They
sell devices such as bracelets, specialized belts, massagers, and
other gadgets that have no direct impact on improving the
individual’s health condition using them.

12. ACTIVITY #1: BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
Have you ever believed in something that turned
out to be false? How did you feel about it? What
did you learn from that experienced?
I used to believe that ________________________
It turns out that ____________________________
Because of this, I have learned that _____________

13. Harmful Physical & Psychological
Effects of Quackery

14. 1. Physical Side Effects

15. 2. Emotional &
Psychological side Effects
•Mood swings
•Hallucination
•Tendencies of self harm
•Hormone imbalance
•Aggression
•Depression

16. 3. Trust issues
People who are victims
of fraud may develop
trust issues.

17. 4. Out of the Box
Healing

18. Herbal medicine
The DOH endorsed ten (10) Medicinal
plants to be used as herbal medicine in
the Philippines due to its health benefits .
Medicinal plants can be used as part of
salad, herbal, teas and supplements.

19. Below are different therapies that are still evident
today:
1. Acupuncture

20. 2. Ventosa massage cupping Therapy

21. 3. Reflexology

22. 4. Naturopathy

24. What do you think is the common
fraud people experienced today?
Why do you think they are involved
in those kinds of fraud?

25. As an Ignacian Marian, how
can you protect yourself
from fraud?

26. How does scientific attitude
can be of help to protect
yourselves against fraud in
health and product services?

27. How is this verse related to our
lesson? “ would not God discover
this? For he knows the secrets of the
heart.” Psalm 44:21

30. Performance task!!
Create an informative brochure.
You are a young doctor and is assigned to lead the local health
care service in a barangay in central Luzon. Records show that
many percentage of the population cannot afford buy medicines
for common health conditions. You are challenged by the
municipal health officer to extend assistance to the local people
by introducing the medical plants approved by the health
department. Design a health brochure to raise awareness to
people and convince them to use medicinal plants alternative
health medication properly. Make the health brochure informative
and easy to read and understand.

31. Criteria:
Design-5
Visual Impact-5
Content-10