Keanekaragaman simplisia nabati dan produk obat tradisional di Kota Pematangsiantar dan Kabupaten Simalungun, Sumatera Utara
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2019Author
Purba, Wita Febriana
Siswoyo, Siswoyo
Hikmat, Agus
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The utilization of medical plants as traditional medicine is a great inherintance
which has been used until present. Medicinal plants used in the form of vegetable
simplisia and traditional medicine products. This study aims to identified the form an
diversity of vegetable simplisia and traditional medicine product, traditional medicine
products traded, the selling price and origin of the traded vegetable simplisia supply
and the potential for sustainable management of medicinal plants as vegetable
simplisia. Data and information are collected in Pematangsiantar and Simalungun,
North Sumatera using direct observation and interviews with purposive sampling.
The results show that 113 species of medicinal plants come from 46 families that
dominated by Zingiberaceae. Vegetable simplisia dominated by herb life form and
simplisia leaf (folium) are organ of the most used medicinal plants as medicine by
local communities and the traders medicinal plants. The majority of medicinal plants
traded and local communities utilized are cultivated plants which selling price around
Rp 16 000-Rp 700 000 each kilogram. There were included 22 spesies medicinal
plants of threatened category according to IUCN, CITES LIPI, and Permen LHK No.
P.106 Year 2018.