GAMBARAN SWAMEDIKASI PENGGUNAAN TANAMAN OBAT DI DESA SUNGAI GAMPA ASAHI

Abstract

Medicinal plants, known as herbal remedies have been used since time immemorial for generations to self medication. Self medication is an attempt self-medication using drugs, traditional medicine, or the traditional way without the guidance of experts. One of the villages in Barito Kuala who still use medicinal plants to swamedikasi is Gampa Asahi River. The purpose of this study is to determine the public's knowledge about medicinal plants for self medication village Sungai Gampa Asahi District of Rantau Badauh Barito Kuala.. This research is a descriptive research with data retrieval methods using non-probability sampling with simple random sampling technique. The study involved 178 respondents to the time of data collection starts from May 10 to July 2 2016. Data collection was conducted in the form of interviews with respondents and fills observation sheet. The results of this study in the form of recap the data 12 kinds of medicinal plants used by the people of Sungai Gampa Asahi, while 12 plants it is jackfruit Dutch/soursop, hibiscus, ginger, turmeric, starfruit, guava, bamban, continued life , continued veins, aloe vera, tamarind and lime. Then the dose used was dose tradsional the piece/pieces, grain, serimpang and taste. The reason for the use of traditional medicine with medicinal plants based on the sequence that is: trust, cost, environment and past knowledge.

Keywords

• describe
• drug plant
• self medication