Abstract
Abstract. Fitrianti T, Partasasmita R. 2020. Medicinal plants of Cintaratu Village, Pangandaran, West Java. Pros Sem Nas Masy Biodiv Indon 6: 600-609. Indonesia has been known as its own high diversity of flora, fauna, and ethnics which has various distinctive traditions, including local knowledge. One of the local knowledge or traditional knowledge is local knowledge of using traditional medicinal plants. Scientific study on local knowledge on medicinal plants can be carried out by ethnobotany of medicinal plants. This paper discussed on research results on ethnobotany of medicinal plants Cintaratu Village, Pangandaran District, West Java. Four aspects plant medicinal plants that are predominantly used by people, source of the medicinal plants in village ecosystem, using and processing of medicinal plants were discussed in this paper, and some predominant diseases of village people. Method used in this study was qualitative with descriptive analysis, while the observation and semi-structure interviews with competent informants by being selected by the snowball sampling technique. The results showed that it was recorded 19 kinds of human diseases in Cintaratu village. It was recorded 41 medicinal plant species with 22 families that are predominantly used by people to treat various diseases. All medical plant species were collected from the yards, rice fields, gardens. The processing of the medicinal plants was done by various means, including pounding and boiling, and using it by direct consumption of fresh materials, drinking, and putting in pain body. The results of study showed that the local knowledge of village people in general has similar to that the Western scientific knowledge view. Therefore, the local knowledge of village people on medicinal plants and using those medicinal plants to treat various diseases could be integrated with Western scientific knowledge for supporting the development of health treatment and health improvement in the community in the future.
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