**5.3 Preserving the indigenous knowledge capital of the community, inheriting and promoting**

It is necessary to have a separate plan/program on investigating indigenous knowledge capital of ethnic groups, fully recording, and selectively publishing: Plan/ chapter separate program on investigating the indigenous knowledge capital of the ethnic groups to fully record, selectively publish and promote the indigenous knowledge in the treatment of diseases with plants of the Tay ethnic group in the province. Thai Nguyen in two languages (Vietnamese and Tay ethnic language); makes practical contributions to the conservation of folk remedies and the effects of medicinal plants, which have been summed up in experiences and passed down from generation to generation in the community's development.

Select, research, and evaluate several unique remedies of the Tay ethnic group in Thai Nguyen province for wide application in the community.

#### **5.4 Propaganda to raise public awareness**

Propaganda to raise public awareness on medicinal plant conservation, indigenous knowledge conservation, sustainable exploitation, and the need to grow more medicinal plants. Integrate into communication programs on the protection of natural resources and the environment, to organize training courses on medicinal plants for the community. The contents of those training courses include:


Protecting locally available medicinal plant resources needs to be associated with indigenous knowledge, which has even become a source of life for a part of the local community for many generations. If the medicinal plants here are not protected and lost, then their descendants will no longer have those medicinal plants to use. The protection of medicinal plants today also carries meaning and moral responsibility for future generations.
