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Medicinal plants are plants with positive pharmacological effects on the human body and are usually grown on a home or communal scale. These medicinal plants can then be used as traditional medicine which can be made easily. The plants chosen are usually plants that can be used to treat simple health problems such as flu and coughs. Medicinal plants can increase the body's immunity because they can prevent disease through the secondary metabolites they contain. In this service activity, two activities were carried out separately, namely socialization and planting medicinal plants with residents. The outreach was carried out to provide information to the residents of Medan Helvetia District regarding medicinal plants so that these medicinal plants can be useful after being planted. Planting is also carried out to increase awareness regarding land use, as well as being a starting point for residents in cultivating medicinal plants. This socialization on the use of family medicinal plants aims to provide information to the people of Kexamatan Medan Helvetia in using medicinal plants. It is hoped that this community service activity will help increase public knowledge about the importance of planting and utilizing medicinal plants to create a healthy society.

Process and efforts to strengthen or enable the weak. This study aims to find out how the process of community empowerment by the PT industry. Manakarra Unggul Lestari and the impact of this empowerment. The research method used was phenomenological qualitative. The data obtained were analyzed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). The results of the study explained: (1) The empowerment process begins with socialization carried out by the PT, this socialization contains methods for planting and developing what is called an oil palm plant. Those who are already members of independent farmer groups are given the opportunity to order oil palm seeds at a low cost. So that many people who previously did not have a job, now work as oil palm farmers. (2) The positive impact of this independent farmer group is the ability of the community to get more optimal results and income than usual. While the negative impact is the emergence of environmental pollution caused by four-wheeled vehicles used as transporters of oil palm crops, the presence of air pollution such as the amount of dust that appears during the dry season can cause people to experience a decrease in body immunity.

Sleep quality is a state lived by an individual to produce freshness and fitness after waking up. If a person's sleep quality is poor it will cause a decrease in the body's immune system and Hb levels which causes the individual to feel easily tired, sleepy and susceptible to disease. Adolescents are identified as a population at high risk of experiencing sleep problems which disrupt sleep quality. Accumulated work and lifestyle are one of the factors causing poor sleep patterns in adolescents which makes it easier for them to experience sleep disturbances. Adolescents with high risk certainly need adequate knowledge regarding the importance of maintaining quality sleep related to the body's immune system and Hb levels. Increased knowledge and examination can be carried out by laboratory personnel with health counseling and laboratory tests. The purpose of this community service is to increase the knowledge of adolescents to maintain good quality sleep so that Hb levels and body immunity are maintained. This community service implementation method consists of three stages, namely the preparation, implementation, and evaluation stages. At the implementation stage, an examination of Hb levels and counting the number of types of leukocytes was carried out as well as education related to the effect of sleep quality on Hb levels and the body's immune system. As a result of community service, adolescents have obtained health status through laboratory tests and good knowledge about the effect of sleep quality on Hb levels and body immunity.

In general, Tinawun Village has a lot of potential to become a prosperous and prosperous village. In addition to having fertile soil, good human resources, healthy and conducive village government, Tinawun Village has one potential village tourism, namely Religious tourism to the Tomb of Sheikh Zakaria every Kliwon Friday. However, apart from tourism, there are many things that can be used in Tinawun Village, namely corn, which is usually only used for cooking, but now it can be used as a source of income for residents by making rice. In addition to corn, there is also ginger which is usually only used as an additional spice in the kitchen, now it can be processed into a drink that is rich in benefits and helps increase body immunity, by mixing it with various flavors, it can be turned into an immune boosting drink that can increase the body's immunity during this pandemic. Apart from the plant aspect, there is also the empowerment of catfish as an income source for local residents.