Abstract

The purpose of this research was to develop a Medicinal Plants Database for primary health care from various herbal websites. The system received needed data from 3 Thai herbal websites that could be reliably supplied to the database. The result from extracting data showed the amount of precision, recall and F-measure to be more than 95% and provided information about plant data which was extracted from those websites into the relational database. The users could search for data which was related to herbs from the application. The assessment of efficiency was conducted by using a developed system from the data of questionnaires by asking 25 users. The total results show that the average of common users equals 4.17 and the standard deviation equals 0.60. This developed system showed a very good quality and in the result available to use.

Keywords:

Extracting data from website, medicinal plants in primary health care , Thai herb,

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