THE MEDICINAL PLANTS INVENTORY OF KASEPUHAN CIBEDUG INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY, BANTEN AS A SOURCE OF LEARNING BASED ON ENCYCLOPEDIA Surti Kurniasih, Dina Dyah Saputri, Ninawati Dewi
Universitas Pakuan
Abstract
Medicinal plants are natural ingredients that have been traditionally used for treatment based on experience. The aims of this study were to know the species and the parts of medicinal plants, as well as to understand how to obtain the medicinal plants and the processing technique of the medicinal plants. The methods used in this research were descriptive and explorative methods. The data collective was done by purposive and snowball sampling with interview and direct observation. The result twenty nine medicine plants from twenty family. The most dominant family of medicinal plants was Zingiberaceae, with four species. The most used part of all medicinal plants were the leaf, only one plant which flower used as medicine. In general, processing technique of medicinal plants was boiling, seventeen medicinal plants with the total of percentage 56,68 percent. However, other processing technique also been used which were dropping, boiling, pounding, pressing, and smoothing with percentage of each processing technique was 3,33 percent. The outcome of the medicinal plants inventory is an encyclopedia that be used as learning resources. Based on an expert validity result, it was concluded that the encyclopedia is suitable and adequate to be used.
