| dc.description.abstract | Ethnopharmacy is the study on herbs or plants that certain ethnic groups practice for treating
particular illness. Scientific reporting of beneficial therapeutic plants through this study could
promote further development of herbal medicines. We conducted an ethnopharmacy study at
several villages of Osing tribe located in Banyuwangi, Indonesia, to identify plants that have the
potential to be tested for certain bioactivity, in this case, for COVID-19 therapy. The snowball and
purposive sampling methods using qualitative and quantitative research with semi-structured
interviews and questionnaires were applied for this study. The parameters used were the Use Value
(UV), Informant Consensus Factor (ICF), and Fidelity Level (FL). The plants used in this study
were obtained and determined at Balai Konservasi Tumbuhan Kebun Raya Purwodadi, the
Indonesian Institute of Science. The results were then followed by the literature study on the
plants’ potential for COVID-19 therapy. Plant exploration was obtained by considering the results
of UV calculation. Based on UV calculations in ethnopharmacy studies, there are several plants
that are considered essential and have more efficacies. They are temulawak, turmeric, suruh,
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gigen-gigen, mating, anggrek merpati and pace. Three of the eight plants potentially possess
immunomodulatory activity that can be used to prevent the infections of SARS-CoV-2. They are
the temulawak (Curcuma xanthorrhiza), turmeric (Curcuma domestica) and gigen-gigen (Centella
asiatica). | en_US |
