Inventarisasi Jenis-Jenis Tumbuhan Obat Di Desa Lubuk Rukam Kecamatan Kandis Kabupaten Ogan Ilir

Abstract

   Inventory Research on Medicinal Plant Species in Lubuk Rukam Village, Kandis Subdistrict, Ogan Ilir Regency was conducted from April to June 2025, in Lubuk Rukam Village, Kandis Subdistrict, Ogan Ilir Regency. This study aimed to examine the types, uses, and benefits of plants in traditional medicine in Lubuk Rukam Village. The research method used was a survey analyzed descriptively, through observation, interviews, and direct document collection at the research site. The research results, based on the data obtained, showed that medicinal plants were found in Lubuk Rukam Village from the Spermatophyta division, consisting of 2 classes, 12 orders, 15 families, 23 genera, and 25 species of medicinal plants. The plant parts utilized by the local community from Monocotyledoneae plants include roots, stems, leaves, and rhizomes, while from Dicotyledoneae plants include roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and tubers. The community processes medicinal plants by boiling, grating, pounding, drying, brewing, dripping, or applying them directly to the affected body parts, and some are consumed directly. The benefits of medicinal plants found in this study include treating gastritis, reducing high fever, relieving menstrual pain, joint pain, colds, skin itching, improving digestion, serving as herbal medicine ingredients, acting as natural antioxidants, treating body aches, relieving coughs, colds, sore throats, internal heat, acne, healing wounds, lowering high blood pressure, treating diabetes, asthma, cholesterol, kidney disorders, malaria, dengue fever, diarrhea, intestinal infections, bad breath, eye irritation, and maintaining dental health.