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The Effectiveness of Acacia Leaves Extract in Killing Termites
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
IV-A CALABARZON
Division of Rizal
District of Tanay II

SAMPALOC NATIONAL HIGHSCHOOL
SY: 2012-2013

A study on the effectiveness of acacia leaves decoction in killing termites

An investigatory project presented to the Board of Judges

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page ……………………………………….. 1
Table of Contents ………………………………..... 2
Introduction ……………………………………….. 3
Statement of Problem ……………………………. 4
Significance of the Study …………………………… 5
Scopes and Limitations ……………………………. 6
Hypotheses ………………………………….. 7
Review of Related Literature …………………….. 8
Methodology ………………………………… 9
Result ………………………………………. 10
Discussion ……………………………………… 11
Conclusions ……………………………………… 12
Recommendations ………………………………… 13
Acknowledgement …………………………………. 14
Reference/ Bibliography ………………………….. 15
Abstract ………………………………………. 16 Introduction

Acacia is a Tropical tree that is Abundant here in our country, it is a source of wood that can be used as furniture, shelter and other wood materials. And it also used in folk medicine at19th-century Ethiopian medical text describes a potion made from an Ethiopian species of Acacia (known as grar) mixed with the root of the tacha, then boiled, as a cure for rabies and there are over 1,300 species of Acacia tree. Acacia isa genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not. They are pod-bearing, with sap and leaves typically bearing large amounts of tannins and condensed tannins that historically in many species found use as pharmaceuticals and preservatives. The generic name derives from ακακία (akakia), the name given by early Greek botanist-physician Pedanius Dioscorides (ca. 40-90) to the medicinal tree



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