Study The Use of Medicinal Plants in Petir Village Communities, Dramaga Sub-District, Bogor, West Java
Primadhika Al Manar*1
Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia
E-mail: primadhikaa[at]gmail.com
Abstract
The potential of medicinal plants in Indonesia is huge and can be further managed to improve the nations economy through the promotion of Indonesian herbal medicines. One of the distribution of medicinal plants that are useful is in the Darmaga Campus of IPB including villages around the campus. The purpose of this study was to identify the diversity of medicinal plant species and how to use medicinal plants by the community around the Darmaga campus of IPB. The research was conducted in Petir Village using the method of literature study, interviews, field surveys, as well as documentation and herbarium. Study of the utilization of medicinal plants in Petir Village was obtained by 30 respondents with different backgrounds. 32 medicinal plants are used by the Petir Village community. The use of medicinal plants by the people of Petir Village is very diverse. The most used medicinal plants come from the Zingiberaceae family. Utilization of medicinal plants by the Village of Petir people most by boiling. Medicinal plants are found in the garden, so the action of environmental conservation must continue to be done in order to maintain the preservation of medicinal plants from land conversion.
Keywords: ethnobotany, exploration, traditional communities
Topic: Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture