Medical Plants in Usadha: Loloh as Balinese Medicine and Traditional Herbal Product in Educational Perspective

摘要

This research aims at conducting an investigation about medical plants written in Usadha manuscript (Balinese traditional healing text). The medical plants are ingredients for making herbal namely loloh. The sample was selected purposively from several sources. Usadha text about medical plants were analyzed by content analysis. The text data about Usadha was recorded from the traditional healers (balian) by using in-depth interviews. Data about potential consumers of the herbal medicine, loloh, were obtained from vocational school teachers and lecturers through questionnaire technique. Finding in this research is the enhancement of herbal loloh research not merely about the ingredients but also about the educational sight and the value of caring of the health of reproductive organs.