Potential Diversity of Serawai Ethnic Medicinal Plants in South Bengkulu Regency as a Source of Ethnobiology Learning Based on Local Wisdom Kasrina (a*), Abas , Syarif Hidayat, Ahmad Saddam Husein, Milsa, Tarisa , Anesa (a*)
(a*) Biology Education Study Program, Bengkulu University
Correspondence: kasrina[at]unib.ac.id
Abstract
Abstract
South Bengkulu Regency is an area inhabited by the Serawai ethnic group, which is the original ethnic group in Bengkulu Province. They still trust traditional healers ^bahtra^ to cure diseases. Documentation of medicinal plants has not been well documented so that many future generations have lost knowledge about medicinal plants. Ethnobiology studies are one way to explore this potential so that knowledge can be recorded well. This research aims to carry out exploration and documentation of medicinal plants which were developed as learning resources based on local wisdom. The research was conducted in the villages of Padang Jawi, Bandar Agung and Jeranglah Tinggi, South Bengkulu Regency. The selection of informants in the form of Bahtera, traditional elders and people who understand medicinal plants was carried out using a purposive sampling method. The results of the research found 87 species of 53 families of medicinal plants,for various diseases such as cancer, asthma, malaria, and the others. Medicinal plants are found wild and cultivated. Family taxa with a large diversity of species are the Zingiberaceae (7sp), Poaceae (6sp), Asteraceae (6sp). The existence of plants that are easy to find can be used as a learning resource based on local wisdom.
Keywords: Medicinal Plants, Serawai Ethnicity, Ethnobiology, Learning Resources Local Wisdom
