Inventarisasi Tumbuhan Yang Berpotensi Sebagai Tumbuhan Obat Alami Di Kecamatan Natar Kabupaten Lampung Selatan

Abstract

Herbal medicine is one of the important component in cure and it used since more than one hundred years ago in Indonesia. But it did not use to all of traditional medicine of industry. This research have purpose to know many kinds of plant that used as herbal medicine, how to manage the medicine, and manufacturing the medicine of plant as herbal medicine in Natar, South of Lampung. This research was conducted in Juni until September 2013 in five villages, that are Pancasila, Sidosari, Brantiraya, Purwosari, and Sukadamai. Making herbarium speciment and identifying plants were done at Botany Laboratorium Departement of Biology Facullty of Matematics and Natural Science Lampung University. Based on the finding in this research, there are 90 varians of plants that used by society as herbal medicine. The most usefully medicine plants part is herbal and the least as herb, and part of herbal medicine that most usefully is leaf. Society that knew about plants that have potencial as herbal medicine is people in more than fivety years old. Keywords : Inventory, herbal medicine