Maternal Health Through the Use of Herbal Medicines and Traditional Medicinal Plants for Public Health and Ancestral Culture

Junardi Harahap

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2022.10627

Authors

Junardi Harahap Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Padjadjaran, West Java, Indonesia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2599-9861

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2022.10627

Keywords:

Health, Medicinal plants, Mother, Public, Culture, Medicine, Traditional and modern

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The use of traditional medicine for maternal health is very important, to overcome various health problems experienced by mothers, using medicinal plants in the community. Especially with the past modern medicine, the modern one is expensive in medicine compared to the traditional medicine which is much cheaper.

METHODS: The criteria used in this study were the existing mothers, carried out by conducting qualitative research, and also conducting a survey that conveyed how the respondents responded to medicinal plants.

RESULTS: The purpose of this study was to identify medicinal plants used by mothers for their medicinal plants and recommendations for the use of good medicinal plants among mothers to overcome health problems experienced by mothers.

CONCLUSION: Various types of medicinal plants are used by mothers for health and benefits for mothers. Medicinal plants used by mothers are still limited from the information obtained by mothers on the internet, and also for hereditary factors that are culturally lacking, the rest are from neighbors. Recommendations are given to carry out the necessary studies given further studies related to medicinal plants and the preservation of existing traditional cultures.

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