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Inventory of Traditional Medicinal Plants of the Mongondow Tribe in Ambang II VillageBolaang Mongondow Regency North Sulawesi Indonesia

Author(s) Prof. Dr. Dingse Pandiangan, Siti Afifa Rambing, Dr. Rooije Roogers Rumende
Country Indonesia
Abstract Indonesia is an archipelagic country that has 17,504 islands, 300 ethnicities and 1,340 tribes. Every tribe in Indonesia has a traditional way of medicine. Traditional medicinal plants are medicines obtained directly from natural ingredients that do not have clinical data. Traditional medicinal plants are processed naturally based on experience. The purpose of this study is to find out the types of plants used as traditional medicine, the parts of plants used and the processing methods carried out by the people of Ambang II Village. The method used in this study is a survey method, data collection through direct interviews with random respondents. The results of the study show that there are 74 types of plants used in Ambang II Village by the Mongondow tribe. The results of the inventory obtained 74 types of medicinal plants were found in 41 families. The most dominant families are Asteraceae and Lamiaceae as much as 9.46%. The most used part is leaves 60.46% and there are 34 types of diseases treated. The disease that uses the most medicinal plants is high blood pressure (hypertension) at 10.89%. There are 8 ways of processing, the most is boiled around 61.73%. There are 5 types of use, the most are 73.08% drunk.
Keywords Inventory, Plant, Medicine, Traditional, Mongondow
Field Biology
Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-12-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.62846

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