Ethnobotanical Study of Efficacious Plants in Urban Communities

Abstract

Indonesia’s biodiversity provides many benefits for the people of the archipelago, one of which is as an Efficacious Plant. They are renewable biological natural resources that have high economic prospects in the future. Traditional knowledge or wisdom community in the utilization of natural resources, especially plants (ethnobotany) is a cultural wealth that needs to be explored for management the tradition is not lost. The purpose of this research is to make an inventory of the types of Efficacious Plants that have been used by the family. The research method was carried out by observing the Efficacious Plant used by the community. The field data collection technique is observation field and semi-structured interviews or interviews deep Efficacious Plant grown to meet family needs will be made by themselves or sold to consumers. According to an ethnobotanical study at the research site, 21 useful plant species were found that were often used by the local population. Among these plants are Curcuma sp., Kaempferia galanga, Andrographis paniculata, Alpinia galanga and Zingiber sp. Is predominantly from the Zingiberaceae family. Parts of Efficacious Plant that are often used are leaves, fruit, bark, and rhizomes. Biological natural resources in the form of Efficacious plants have a large enough function to meet human health needs.