Ethnobotany Medicinal Plants For Local Community in Southwest Sumba District

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10.2991/amca-18.2018.151How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethnobotany, medicinal plant, local community

Abstract

Ethnobotany is a science that studies a correlation between humans and plants as part of natural resources. The aims of this study were: 1. to know the type of medicinal plants used by the local community of Southwest Sumba; 2. to find the benefits of medicinal plants obtained by local community; 3. to observe how the community treats the medicinal plants; 4. to identify the types of diseases that can be cured by the medicinal plants. This study employed descriptive explorative method. Based on the interview and direct observation in the research area, medicinal plants were found and utilized by villagers. There are 17 species that most widely used. In some areas of Southwest Sumba, the communities have their own system of the utilization of the medicinal plants. The systems they used are unique and different from one region to the others. Southwest Sumba people are still familiar with the various types of medicinal plants and their benefits, also how to treat them. The communities are able to integrate a culture of crop used as herbal medicine as an effort of conservation against local biodiversity. It can be concluded that the community still have strong efforts to cultivate medicinal plants.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Elly Purwanti
AU  - Tri Mulyatin
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Ethnobotany Medicinal Plants For Local Community in Southwest Sumba District
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 544
EP  - 547
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/amca-18.2018.151
DO  - 10.2991/amca-18.2018.151
ID  - Purwanti2018/07
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